On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:16:38 +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
iTunes does have it advantages over the cloud. Especially, when you do not have an internet connection, or a slow one. I have had to at times move several Gigs of data, even 10s of GB, but that is a different matter.
I forgot to mention my no. 1 favourite method of opening books on iOS (and Android!) devices: from Dropbox or SugarSync. All my Calibre folders are stored in SugarSync, so that all of my e-books are available at any time from any computer or hand-held device. There is, then, never the need to transfer large amounts of books to any single reading device, because why would you do that, when all the books are available in the cloud anyway, on demand... It's been my experience that opening just one book, or even a handful of books, from Dropbox or SugarSync works fine even when the Internet connection is spotty. Now the Marvin app (currently on iPad; iPhone version coming up later) introduced a fabulous feature I have encountered nowhere else so far: with a single tap of your finger, you can export, via email, all of your hightlights and notes for a particular book in an XHTML file. I find this to be the killer feature for Marvin, and the developer implied he would also make it possible to *restore* highlights and notes from a previously exported XHTML file. This would mean I could safely delete any book I've already read from my reading device, knowing that it's possible to re-open it from the cloud at any later point in time, if necessary, along with restoring the highlights and notes, if desired. The closest thing I've seen to Marvin's XHTML export feature is the "MyClippings" file on the hardware Kindles; however, it combines notes from all books into one file, converts everything to plain-text, and it's difficult to export that file from a hardware Kindle device. -- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org [sent via "The Bat!" 5.2 on MBA via Parallels Desktop]