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Ebook support (epub, mobi etc.)
jgreen:
I manage my ebooks and ebook library loans exclusively with MC. I use epub, pdf, doc, txt and rtf. I have no experience with mobi.
I find that MC is a vastly better manager than what I understand is the "premiere" dedicated ebook manager, Calibre. I call the Calibre reader as a double-click file association within MC, as well as the Adobe PDF reader. Stripping the file management away from both of these programs makes their use tolerable, barely. I would love to read and tag ebooks using MC only, but the last time this topic came up there were maybe three people showing interest, so I would not expect JRiver to pull programmers off their current priorities for this.
If you have a large library, do some fooling around with custom smartlists, and you'll really see the power of MC. I have attention span issues, so there's probably 5,000 books I'm halfway through. Smartlists make it easy to keep track of these things and reassure myself that one day I could finish something, if I cared to.
I know that JRiver will increase support as the demand increases, but in the mean time they'll appreciate specific feedback from early adopters.
rjm:
I'd also like to see improved ebook support however I understand that we are a minority of users and the investment for proper support would be high. Given that using an external viewer is easy, and given that Calibre does a good job of tagging, perhaps a low cost but useful first step would be for MC to read ebook meta data?
javidan:
--- Quote from: jgreen on March 22, 2012, 12:12:29 pm ---I find that MC is a vastly better manager than what I understand is the "premiere" dedicated ebook manager, Calibre. I call the Calibre reader as a double-click file association within MC, as well as the Adobe PDF reader. Stripping the file management away from both of these programs makes their use tolerable, barely. I would love to read and tag ebooks using MC only, but the last time this topic came up there were maybe three people showing interest, so I would not expect JRiver to pull programmers off their current priorities for this.
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Yeah J River's database is so powerful it is doing what so many iterations of file managers have failed to do.
It started with my frustration of Windows Media library always getting "corrupted" and tones of tag related file managers which I've spent so much time fiddling with.
It only dawned upon me after using MC for 2 years that the reliability and stability of MC totally trashes all solutions out there and I'm just about to get started on pdf tagging using MC.
I'm having some teething issues using the expressions to parse/tokenise my file names into tags though. Hence my other posts...
Phil LD:
So I imported my ebooks, however it ignores the folder.jpg besides each epub. It only recognizes the cover art if it has the exact name like the ebook.
Phil LD:
I guess JRiver uses XULRunner as base to view websites.
So maybe it would be an option to use https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/epubreader/ to view epub inside JRiver.
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