0 books on your personal bookshelf

[ghost]

do i need a metadata.db in the /library folder? should the authors have their own folders?

[Yetangitu]

The personal bookshelf shows which books you downloaded through the OPDS feed. Once you start downloading books, they'll show up there. Use the 'Browse catalog' link to find those books you put in /Library, download one of them, then revisit the personal bookshelf. It'll show the book you just downloaded. Download another book and it'll appear above the one you download earlier. The idea here is that you can easily get at a book you've been reading on device A if you happen to find yourself on device B.

[Yetangitu]

This is why it is a 'personal' bookshelf. The actual Library can be, and in my case, is, shared between several users.

You don't need any metadata.db if you don't want one. OPDS catalog does not use it in any case.

The way your organise your feed is entirely up to you, the catalog does not care. I use a hierarchical structure based on type (fiction/nonfiction) -> language -> A..Z -> Author. The nonfiction section is further divided into subject categories. I find that a deep hierarchy with small directories works better in Owncloud than a shallow one with large directories, especially on mobile devices where scrolling through large directories is slow.

[ghost]

the 'Browse catalog' link?

[Yetangitu]

The first link in the root page. It contains two links, the first one named 'Browse catalog', the second 'Your Name's bookshelf'

[Yetangitu]

https://apps.owncloud.com/CONTENT/content-pre2/168132-2.png

Look at the image, it shows the feed in FBReader.

[Yetangitu]

My personal bookshelf contains 5 'books'. The actual feed lists several thousands of publications. As said, the catalog currently does not bother with metadata. It also does not show how many books the catalog itself contains. This will come, if this data is easily and cheaply (in CPU cycles and database load) available from Owncloud. For now, it is not.

[ghost]

works now thanks