Online streaming, nfs, samba, calibre web (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web)

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I'd like to access my ebook\comics collection from a home server, much like VLC can for music. But better (I noticed vlc can't access files with a '?' on them - note on nfs not smb\samba, since I have a linux server and android device, and samba filenames are even worse. This bug is likely because vlc used a URI\url library to encode nfs paths then screwed up ? because it's also used as a query marker in uri\urls).

Adding remote capability to apps like this is unfortunately required to be handled by the app itself since android\google hates people having their own remote services, and do nothing to help it with the default filechooser... ebook\comics readers with nfs service are nonexistent probably because they want to 'support' windows with online hosting and forget about nfs (much faster, no filename limitations... not windows compatible), they're mostly all samba. It's irritating to rename files and recreate playlists just to appease windows, which I do not have.

Anyway, the calibre web protocol, OPDS, is probably better. There also is a extension to send back pages read to the server and one to transfer only a single page at a time, although I'm pretty sure they're not implemented in calibre-web unfortunately (here is the bug report for the second janeczku/calibre-web#804)