Likewise, I just discovered through experimenting, that /xml works. opds was the trick to getting Aldiko to work. I wasn't even aware of the /opds and /stanza paths. Is there some form of list of "urls" the content server knows, or documentation on it? FBreader seems like it should be able to do it, if I can just figure out how. In other words, when I start up the calibre server with 'calibre-server -port 8083,' I get the default auth name from my personal information and not the name 'calibre.' The inclusion of the correct user name strikes me as a security issue. This is the same issue I run into with the Firefox based readers. I've tested this with both nginx and apache2 as the reverse proxy and get the same behavior with both. However if I connect with a reverse proxy none of the icons load. It remembers the chapter you were reading, but since there's no "page", it doesn't know where you were in the chapter. If I run calibre server on a local machine at home, and connect directly via WIFI with no proxy, the icons all load correctly. So your immersion is occasionally broken because you have to look to see if you should be scrolling, my how much, and if you need to find the "next" link. But you can just "click" to go to the next page. So you scroll through each chapter, then have to click the next/prev link to switch chapters. Books are paginated, they're broken into chapters. It's pretty nice, but it to has the scrolling issue. I thought Ibis was going to be the solution, I'd forgotten to list that one. With the OPDS feed, I can go in and browse by newest, title, author, series (a big hit). With 1000's of books, you have to rely on search and sort. Unless there's capability I'm just not aware of from the web. #4 nickdma 10-02-2010, 01:25 PMThe problem with using a browser is that it makes it difficult to navigate through a large library. I don't want to "scroll" pages, and then "next" chapter.Įpubreader firefox plugin, same as lucidor, which isn't suprising since they both use firefox.Īnyone know of any tricks to make any of these readers talk to the Calibre OPDS server? I considered Calibre2OPDS, but I don't think that would solve anything, since I still need to figure out how to get the readers to pull the data. Horrible touch support, not very finger friendly for reading. I think it supports opds, and it looks like the magic lies in the stores.xml file, but again, no luck yet. I found the various "library" xml files, but haven't come up with the magic to get it to parse the calibre server. Such potential in this reader too.įBreader. I can't see where that's configured though. Pretty, and can convert an epub to XPS (and triple it's size in the process!!) I was hoping since it knew how to talk to feedbooks opds feed, I could hijack that to point it to my own. Since there's such knowledgable folks here, I'm hoping someone else has already cracked this nut and has a solution they can share.īlio reader. To that end, I've been hacking around at a number of apps, but not making any progress. I want something that will work with Calibre's OPDS feed for grabbing new books from my library. I'm still amazed that there's such poor ereader apps for Windows. I also have a Tablet PC running Windows 7 that I'm now trying to find a nice solution to. I think it's bugged, and I've contacted Aldiko about this) (btw, if anyone knows how to make aldiko work with a password protected library, would be nice to know. The kids use Stanza on their ipods, we use Aldiko on our phones. Just last night I discovered how to get Aldiko to work with the opds feed. While it all works fine via web browsers, I'd prefer it to be more integrated into some of our readers. There are other ways to do that (such as rsync), thereby avoiding the size limitations.#1 nickdma 10-02-2010, 12:22 PMI'm using Calibre's content server to host my library. Note that in my VPS scenario, dropbox is acting only as a transfer agent. It does cost something (as low as $90/year, but probably more like $150), but for that you get good network pipes (not a home ADSL), professional management of hardware, RAID disks, better security (your home net isn't open), and other functionality such as personal mail domains. You also need to have the dropbox account credentials.įor those of you who are somewhat technical, I think the easiest way to get something like this working is to pick up a cheap VPS or virtual host somewhere, stick dropbox on it, and have it replicate the calibre2opds-created library into the machine's webspace. They supply you with a file explorer interface, not an html/browser interface. You can access the copies on dropbox with a browser, but it is painful. Can you directly access the dropbox copy on the web with a browser or opds-capable device (or do you need to echo it back to a local machine via dropbox?)
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