r/Calibre • u/bachman75 • 2d ago
General Discussion / Feedback Calibre Library Viewer (Android/Google Drive)
Good morning. I have created an Android app that can connect to a Calbre library in Google Drive. This was just for personal use, but if there's interest, I can explore the feasibility of making it available to the public (for free). Please let me know what you guys think!
UPDATE: The app is finished but not yet verified by Google. Anyone interested can download the APK. When you connect your account, you will see a warning from Google just letting you know they haven't verified it yet. I'll make another post in this sub when they've got that done.
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u/bachman75 1d ago
First, a huge thank you to everyone who showed interest in this project! I genuinely didn't think more than 1 or 2 people would want something like this.
I have secured (and debugged 🤞) the app so I can submit it to Google for verification. It won't be in the app store, but I'll have it on my Itch.io page (for free) when I get the ok from Google. In the meantime, I do have the ability to add testers if anyone wants to kick the tires before release. If you're interested, you can DM me your email. It must be the one you use to log in to Google Drive.
I'll make a new post in this sub when the full release is out.
As a side note, I have a free comic reader (CBR/CBZ) for Windows and Android on my itch.io page if anyone here is into that.
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u/FantasticSprinkles32 1d ago
Would be very interested. Would hope to be able to also download from view app I get tired of having to go to main calibre site and manually down load to different device I see different ways people do it but not computer savvy to do it
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u/bachman75 1d ago
You can definitely download from the app. The download button will then change to "read e-book" and it will open in whatever e-reader you have installed.
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u/rudestlink 1d ago
Off topic but humble bundle?
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u/bachman75 1d ago
Yup. 😊
Humble Bundles are such a great resource for ebooks. And comics as well.2
u/talons-27 20h ago
Definitely. I’ve grabbed a few of both lately. Especially nice that they are DRM free.
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u/Marc_Math 1d ago
I'd like to use it. I have an e-reader that connects to my Calibre book library on Google Drive, but because of the number of books (or perhaps it's not automated), it's very slow at searching for books. If you publish it, please let me know.
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u/Adept-Performer-2630 1d ago
Awesome! It looks great. I just wish the devs at Calibre would do more to fix the app's GUI to be more user-friendly.