11-19-2010, 03:08 AM | #1 |
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Kindelabra: Kindle Collection Manager
Hey everyone, I just want to say that this site is a fantastic resource and I've been coming here for tips on playing with my Kindle 3 since day one. I wanted to let you all know that I've finished writing Kindelabra, my Kindle collection manager written in Python. I've spent a lot of time making it simple to use, yet very powerful and hope it will be useful to everyone.
Check it out! There's a version on my site for Windows users. If you try the program, I'd really appreciate it if you could send me a quick PM saying whether or not the program ran/worked for you. http://www.richardpeng.com/projects/kindelabra/ Latest Updates: 2010/12/05: - disable collection expanding when adding book 2010/12/03: - Topaz metadata support (code from Calibre, GRiker's code, NiLuJe's patch) - Kindlet metadata support (NiLuJe) 2010/12/02: - better ASIN detection (NiLuJe) - better metadata error handling 2010/11/26: - version 0.2: support for DRM-d books 2010/11/22: - windows installer for GTK+ - hotkeys: Ctrl+N (New), Ctrl+E (Edit), Ctrl+O (Open), Ctrl+S (Save) - add collection now highlights and scrolls to the new collection to make it easier to immediately start adding books to the new collection - enter key adds new collection - delete collection confirmation 2010/11/19: - added button tooltips - checks for existing collection before adding a new collection - fixed creation of unicode collections - added support for unicode filenames Last edited by teegee543; 12-05-2010 at 11:42 AM. |
11-19-2010, 03:56 AM | #2 |
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Well done. Hoping one day someone will do something similar for Mac users.
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11-19-2010, 05:49 AM | #3 |
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It looks brilliant, thank you. I can't wait to give it a try this evening.
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11-19-2010, 05:56 AM | #4 |
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How to install it?
I unzipped the windows version and run the exe file, it just produced errors. |
11-19-2010, 06:01 AM | #5 |
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Is there no way of organising Collections using Calibre onto the Kindle?
Perhaps your script could be incorporated somehow into Calibre as a plugin? |
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11-19-2010, 06:35 AM | #6 |
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Excellent tegee. I havent used your software yet as I am not at home, but I have added to your Karma anyways for the efforts... Keep it up mate.
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11-19-2010, 09:55 AM | #7 |
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WS64, what error are you getting?
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11-19-2010, 10:02 AM | #8 |
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Looks interesting and thanks for your efforts. Will give it a try as soon as possible. A few basic install and run steps would help I'm sure since this forum has such a mixed audience.
Thanks and karma to you. |
11-19-2010, 10:10 AM | #9 |
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Thanks for the input, Leep. I've added instructions for using the program on my web site. For Windows users, unzip the download and run Kindelabra.exe.
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11-19-2010, 11:21 AM | #10 |
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it looks interesting, but, how to use it?
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11-19-2010, 11:28 AM | #11 |
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Very Interesting
It runs fine on Windows 7 Home version.
It would help to have some more guidance on the various options, such as: Use the diskette icon to save the changes back to the Kindle Click (and hold) on the Files to select the drive letter for the Kindle Warning - the solid line icon will delete a selected Collection and so forth. |
11-19-2010, 11:38 AM | #12 |
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Very nice app. Thanks for sharing.
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11-19-2010, 11:39 AM | #13 |
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This sounds great! Do you have plans to make a mac version?
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11-19-2010, 11:51 AM | #14 |
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Got the following error log on Vista:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "Kindelabra.py", line 8, in <module> File "gtk\__init__.pyc", line 40, in <module> File "gtk\_gtk.pyc", line 12, in <module> File "gtk\_gtk.pyc", line 10, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. |
11-19-2010, 12:17 PM | #15 |
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I installed the windows zip somewhere and run Kindelabra.exe
It told me "Errors occurred" and to see Kindelabra.exe.log for details. Here it is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "Kindelabra.py", line 8, in <module> File "gtk\__init__.pyc", line 40, in <module> File "gtk\_gtk.pyc", line 12, in <module> File "gtk\_gtk.pyc", line 10, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed: Die angegebene Prozedur wurde nicht gefunden. (the last sentence tranlates to "the named procedure could not be found") And I really don't know where the gtk subdir should come from. There is a library.zip in the folder which has such a directory, but extracting this one also to the kndelabra dir does not help, same message, |
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