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I am using Calibre on my notebook and sync the entire library through DS Cloud on my Synology NAS and with my mobile devices (an Android smartphone and a pad). So I always have all books stored in the cloud of the NAS any synced with all my devices. To read my books and make annotations I use ezPDFReader (I mainly use the PDF formats). It is however cumbersome to find and select books from the mobile devices. I therefore thought of using CC. With CC I am able to connect to the library and see all the metadata of my books. CC however doesn't recognize that the files are already locally available and asks me to download the books. Is there a way such that CC recognizes that the library is locally present and open the book from there without downloading it? |
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Thank you for your answer DoctorOhh,
I believe that I haven't made myself clear: "Is there a way such that CC recognizes that the library is locally present and open the book from there without downloading it?" The main point is in bold now. By there I mean the library and not the CC space. I don't want to duplicate my books on the devices for the following reasons:
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No. CC requires a copy of the file that it hands to the reader app.
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and surely you don't intent to give write access to remote devices for your source calibre library ? |
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Your second assumption is also wrong; I allow my remote devices write access to the source calibre library (indirectly through the cloud). Until now I didn't encounter any issues with that but if so I still would have a backup ![]() |
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sure - you can do it all with cloud folders, if you are ignoring the warnings all over this forum about the dangers of using calibre library in a cloud or on NAS . One day you will break it and get little sympathy.
meanwhile see Chaley's post here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ight=card+oreo post 2 "It is worth noting that starting in Nougat (Android 7), Google has totally broken sharing files between apps. Later this year CC will be forced to hand copies of books to reader apps instead of pointing the reader app at CC's local copy. I know that this is terrible but there is zero I can do about it. If I don't implement this stupid system then later in the year I must stop releasing CC updates." |
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![]() I had mentioned DS Cloud and ezPDFReader where I can do this without any issues on my Samsung S9 and a Huawei M5; one with SD card, the other without (both without root access or any customizations) so technically it can be done. Unfortunately I am not savvy enough to come up with a technical spec on how this can be achieved nor do I have insights what it would mean for CC. I have now posted a feature request in the Trello board and in the Whish list thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...235659&page=36 |
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