Calibre Author Sort

Access your full Calibre libraries on the cloud, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, pCloud, Nextcloud, and OwnCloud.

Calibre Author Sorter

WebDav and Calibre Content Server are also now supported.

Just move your Calibre e-book library to your favourite cloud provider and access the library through Calibre Sync to browse, sort, search and download books on your mobile device.

Calibre Sync supports unlimited libraries across multiple Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, and pCloud accounts.

Or, if your series spans authors, do the series sort first, then you will see the whole series in order, with whichever authors tagging along. The decimal places are often used for 'between the numbers' novellas and the like-so you may see a short work with a series number 7.5, meaning it is in the series between major works 7 and 8. Calibre sorts books by the date on which the books were added to the library — the ones that were most-recently added to the library appear at the top of the list. You can also sort based on the title and author of the book by clicking on the header of the book list. That works well if you have a handful of books in your library. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Kyle Freeman. Or, if your series spans authors, do the series sort first, then you will see the whole series in order, with whichever authors tagging along. The decimal places are often used for 'between the numbers' novellas and the like-so you may see a short work with a series number 7.5, meaning it is in the series between major works 7 and 8.

Calibre Sync v1.14.0+ also supports Calibre Content Server.

Calibre Sync v1.12.0+ also supports WebDav servers.

Calibre Sync v1.10.0+ also supports Nextcloud and OwnCloud.

Calibre Sync v1.6.0+ also supports local libraries on sdcard.

Follow steps to move your Calibre library to Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, pCloud, WebDav, Nextcloud, and OwnCloud

Open Calibre e-book manager on your Laptop/PC/MacOS
Select Switch/create library… from the Calibre menu
Select an empty folder in your Cloud Drive in New Location dropdown
Select Move current library to new location. Press OK
Wait for cloud sync to complete (very important), note that for Box service, it might take a bit longer for your files to be fully synced.
Calibre Sync can automatic discover the library in your Cloud Drive.

Unlimited libraries on most popular personal cloud services
Switch between libraries across multiple accounts
Search books across all of your libraries
Pull, Refresh or Remove a library from Calibre Sync
View your library statistics
Share book details
Download the book for reading
Email or share a copy of the book.
View your books list in List, Grid, or Carousel layouts
Filter books on authors, series, tags, publishers, or formats and even in custom columns
Search books by title, author, publisher, even in comments and custom columns
Dark theme and many more in the pipelines …

Write to external storage permission

Calibre Sync only requires access to device storage for downloading books to device.Note that: for Lollipop devices, you must have sdcard on devices so that Calibre Sync can download books to the external storage.

OneDrive integration

These are known issues with OneDrive integration:

Only OneDrive for Personal accounts are supported.
In case your Calibre library folder on OneDrive is not detected please retry. In case of an exception reported on the screen, please send us an email.

Box integration

Due to an issue in permission of Box cloud service API,which states that “Download” is a write access, Calibre Sync therefore must ask for write permission on your cloud service.We guarantee that Calibre Sync only uses “download” for that permission, any other access is read-only access.

pCloud integration

There are known issues with pCloud integration due to unstable streaming API in downloading files.Therefore, you might experience failure while downloading book covers and formats. If that happens, please retry those operations after a short period of time.

WebDav integration

Calibre Sync supports most WebDav servers from version 1.12.0+, please check if your cloud services support for WebDav api(please refer to this for those such servers, for example, with Yandex Disk, you can use https://webdav.yandex.ru/ for WebDav).If it is the case, you can use the WebDav server with your WebDav username (not your email address) and password to loginand use Calibre libraries on those server.

Calibre Content Server integration

Calibre Sync supports Calibre Content Server from version 1.14.0+, instruction to start content server can be found onthis, basically, following those steps:

Go to Preferences -> Choose Sharing over the net, see below
Set options to start server (port, user accounts, …), and click start server, see below
The server should now be started and you can find information to connect the server, for example, will allow you to connect on server http://192.168.1.160:8080

Now you can open Calibre Sync app and connects to the above server (username and password might be required if you’ve set users in user accounts tab).

Nextcloud and OwnCloud integration

Calibre Sync uses WebDav API of Nextcloud and OwnCloud services, and it requires case sensitive file system to work properly. Therefore, you must make sure that your Calibre libraries are set up on case sensitive file system (Linux, recent MacOS, Windows NTFS with case sensitive enabled).If you find that you may not be able to download some book, you might want to check whether the directory name of the book matchesthe name of the book author/name precisely (case sensitive), please also rename the directory appropriately where applicable.

Which cloud services are supported?

Dropbox

Why no Google Drive support?

Due to recent change of Google Drive API policy, Drive readonly scope is now a restricted scope,therefore we have to drop support for this service as we could not afford the assessment fee ($15000 - $75000) to get the app verified.

Can I read my downloaded books with Calibre Sync?

No. Calibre Sync is not a reader app. There are already many beautifully functional reading applications on Play Store that support a multitude of formats & features. Calibre Sync launches any of these apps for you when you try to open a book through Calibre Sync.

Downloading multiple books at once?

There is currently no support for downloading multiple books at once because the intent of the application is to browse your library but download books only on demand when you need them. The device storage is constrained. Keeping all your books on device defeats the purpose of cloud integration. This is what we feel; though if there are enough demands for such a feature, we might go ahead with the implementation.

How can I use multiple Dropbox accounts?

Logout from the current Dropbox account using ‘Sign Out’ at top right, then log in with other account.

SD card support?

Yes. Calibre Sync fully supports read-only libraries on sdcard.

External USB storage drives support?

Not yet! That is still under development.

Other Cloud storage service?

We aim to support all current popular personal Cloud services. If there is enough demand and there is API available for another service. We will try to provide support for that.

Should I worry that my desktop Calibre libraries are corrupted by this app?

No. Calibre Sync only performs READ-ONLY operation.

Why Calibre Sync asking for write access on Box accounts?

As already mentioned in Box service integration, “Download” is a write access on Box service, therefore,Calibre Sync must ask for write permissions, rest assure that it is the only permission that Calibre Sync asked for.Any other operation is READ-ONLY.

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