01-29-2010, 08:46 PM | #1 |
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Can't access HTC Touch HD as a device
Why is it that the HTC Android shows as a device in Calibre, but the HTC WinMo phones, such as Touch HD and Touch HD2, do not show?
When is Calibre going to recognise WinMo phones as genuine ebook-reading devices? The last thing in the world I want is a separate device just to read ebooks. Every other portable device has been integrated into the WinMo platform, why not eBooks as well? Until this happens, Calibre has very little appeal to me. |
01-29-2010, 08:49 PM | #2 |
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+1. This would be a very useful feature for WinMo owners.
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01-29-2010, 09:02 PM | #3 |
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Only devices that mount as disk drives will show up as devices in calibre. IIRC winmo devices need to use activesync.
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01-30-2010, 06:01 AM | #4 |
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Kovid, in winmo V6.x.x there is an option to connect either via Activesync or as a disk drive. I use it many times to copy large files without having to go thru the hassle of AS authentication.
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01-30-2010, 08:42 AM | #5 | |
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Because calibre won't talk to WinMo devices through AS, I tried to get calibre to recognize the HD2 when connected as a disk drive. Unfortunately, the HD2 doesn't properly identify itself, so this didn't work either. After using calibre for a while, it seemed to me that there wasn't any reason to get calibre to recognize the HD2 as an e-reader (which would allow "Send to device") when I could just "Save to disk" when the HD2 was connected as a disk drive. Plus, "Save to disk" was originally much more flexible. Since I looked at this, Kovid has added flexibility to "Send to device" by allowing control over file/folder names, but I still don't see any real advantage to it over "Save to disk." Unless I'm missing something? I admit, I haven't looked at it recently, since the HD2 is my wife's toy, and she's using the wifi and the built-in server for most of her book management. |
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01-30-2010, 11:55 AM | #6 | |
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Also since you can run the content server and access your calibre library that way, it doesn't seem like there is a big need for it. |
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