Charles Haley, who has made significant contributions to calibre’s code, is one of the developers of Calibre Companion.Īccording to the Calibre Companion page on Google Play:Ĭalibre Companion is two applications in one. For this we recommend a new app called Calibre Companion.
Calibre Companion Many of you have also been asking for a calibre app for wirelessly connected android devices. You can right click on any book in your library and it will give you the option to send to device. All books in your library which are also on the device will be marked with a green check mark when the device is connected by USB to your computer. You can see what books are on the device by clicking “Show books in main memory of this device”. When you connect an MTP device like the Nexus 7 to calibre, a device icon like the one in the above picture shows up in the tool bar.
You can use calibre to manage your ebooks on your android phones or tablets just as easily as you did on your sony readers, kindles, nooks etc.Unfortunately we have not been able to get this to work with OS X but it does work with Windows and Linux. A lot of you were waiting for this feature and now it is here. Now calibre can connect via USB to even those devices that do not present a drive letter. We realized it was important to improve the support for these devices. Also some people had trouble setting up the calibre content server to connect to them wirelessly. Prior to calibre 0.8.53, calibre could not detect these devices via the wired USB connection.
These devices use something called Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) for data transfer. MTP Support However many new android devices do not present a drive letter when connected by USB to the computer. This wireless method requires setting up the calibre content server. It can also connect to it wirelessly using the over the air method explained here. For those android devices that do present this drive letter, calibre has been able to detect the device when it is connected to the computer and transfer e-books to and from it. While most earlier android phones and tablets presented a drive letter when connected via USB to the computer, many of the newer ones do not including the popular new Nexus 7. Calibre has been adding support for these devices as and when they have appeared. These devices double as readers and are used by many to read news and ebooks.
Improved Support for Android Phones and Tablets Over the last year we have seen many new android phones and tablets flood the market.