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calibre, calibre companion and fbreader: Getting My Books From the Hard Drive To My Portable Device

Once calibre was updated I immediately set out to find a better way to get my books out of the hard drive and into my portable device. I have around 7 megabytes worth of books in mostly epub format consisting of around 5,000 books. I already have calibre in the desktop so I use it to read my books in the desktop. I want to open it in my portable device which is an android smartphone. I am familiar with fbreader and in fact using it to read pdf's and the occasional documents. After searching for options, I downloaded calibre companion from Google Play. This app can connect with calibre on the desktop. It can sync books and its metadata. It can even remember where I stopped reading. Okay, I'm talking about bookmarks.





Calibre Companion uses another app to read a book once it is connected to Calibre in your desktop. You can get a book or your entire collection out of the hard drive in one sync. There is one glitch. I had to turn off VPN temporarily for the connection to work.



I am familiar with the fbreader interface and I don't have a problem with the app. Nice shelf too.


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