12-20-2011, 07:47 PM | #256 |
US Navy, Retired
Posts: 9,865
Karma: 13806776
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: North Carolina
Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Nexus 7
|
This already exists under the Get Books icon. Go to Project Gutenberg via Get books, read whatever book you like. If you want to add it to your library go to the download book link and download the version you want and it will be added directly to your library.
|
12-21-2011, 12:10 PM | #257 |
Connoisseur
Posts: 52
Karma: 38
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: Kindle 3
|
It occurred to me that there is as of yet no plugin for uploading/posting books.
Let's say someone wants to post a book on Gutenberg. Or, as many people clearly do, upload it to megaupload/rapidshare/etc. and then post in bolt.org or warez-bb, etc. (This is not inherently illegal, as long as the book isn't copyrighted...) It would save so much time if there were 'recipes' for uploading to different sites and creating posts from the book-cover, description, title, name, etc. (I would do it myself, but all my spare programming time right now is spent working on an eBookCleaner program.) I'm suprised no ones done it yet... |
12-23-2011, 10:07 AM | #258 | |||
Member
Posts: 22
Karma: 12
Join Date: Oct 2011
Device: kindle 3
|
My idea is simply...
Input: Two this same books in different languages. Example for English, Polish and Steve Jobs biography [English]: Quote:
Quote:
One book, which contain mixed pairs of sentences from each book. Example: Quote:
How this could be done? Most translations contains this same number of sentences. In most languages sentences ends with period, question mark or exclamation mark, what can be used for splitting texts.. This will be great for learning languages! In advance Options this could generate one book from more than two languages! |
|||
12-28-2011, 04:14 AM | #259 |
Enthusiast
Posts: 42
Karma: 13798
Join Date: Feb 2011
Device: kindle 3
|
I would like to see in the tag browser a "date" column by published date that can show stats by either month or year -
|
12-28-2011, 09:42 AM | #260 |
Member
Posts: 17
Karma: 10
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Texas
Device: Kindle 3
|
A plug in that compares 2 libraries for duplicates. I keep a master library that I have on a large portable drive but I also have a seperate library of books that are kept on a flash drive. There are times that I only have the flash drive and/or the portable hard drive so the books go directly on whichever I have at the time. I know there are duplications and I want to maintain the master library with everything on it without copying everything from the flash drive and then weeding through the duplicates.
|
12-29-2011, 03:36 PM | #261 |
Addict
Posts: 352
Karma: 103850
Join Date: Apr 2011
Device: Kindle NT
|
I'd like a plug in for managing hierarchical tags. Something to make the rules how to make hierarchical tags. For example if a book has tag vampire create a tag Paranormal.Vampire or maybe even something like this Genre.Paranormal.Character.Vampire, Genre.Paranormal.Character.Wizard etc.
If a book has Contemporary and Detective add it to Contemporary.Detective. Now you need to add tags like Paranormal.Vampire manually and any new book will not have correct tags. Unless there is a way and I don't know it. |
12-30-2011, 05:07 AM | #262 | |
Junior Member
Posts: 9
Karma: 386
Join Date: Apr 2011
Device: Kindle DX Graphite
|
Quote:
|
|
01-06-2012, 11:51 PM | #263 |
Enthusiast
Posts: 26
Karma: 6096
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Saskatchewan
Device: Kobo WiFi and Kobo Touch
|
Kobo "read" to library tag?
In a library, I use a tag to specify I've read a book. When I have my Kobo plugged in, I can see the books I've read. I then go to the library, and mark it 'read' using a tag (I don't use tags for anything else, so far), and I have the GUI set to colour the entry 'red' when there is a 'read' tag.
I find it quite arduous to do this, because I have to either switch back and forth between the device and the library, or write down all the books and switch once, then find each one to enter the 'read' tag. What I would very much like to see is that when I mark a book 'read', it also marks it 'read' in the library. Edit to clarify: I would like a way to tell Calibre that I want to mark a book 'read' in the library, while I am looking at it on the device. I could not find a way to perform this task easily, but I may have missed something. I welcome advice on the best way to go about this. Larry Last edited by lar3ry; 01-06-2012 at 11:59 PM. Reason: Clarification |
01-07-2012, 09:59 AM | #264 |
Addict
Posts: 355
Karma: 1001201
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: UK
Device: Kindle 3 Keyboard, Surface Tablet, Android Smartphone, Laptop, Netbook
|
I would love a function to allow me to browse covers in Calibre (like Adobe DE) instead of having all the text. I do realise I can click down but it's not the same.
|
01-07-2012, 10:41 AM | #265 |
US Navy, Retired
Posts: 9,865
Karma: 13806776
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: North Carolina
Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Nexus 7
|
Click the center icon of three (shortcut shift+alt+b) next to Jobs in the lower right of calibre.
|
01-07-2012, 12:39 PM | #266 |
Addict
Posts: 355
Karma: 1001201
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: UK
Device: Kindle 3 Keyboard, Surface Tablet, Android Smartphone, Laptop, Netbook
|
|
01-12-2012, 05:40 AM | #267 |
Junior Member
Posts: 1
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jan 2012
Device: none
|
ComicInfo.xml
Would like to see a plugin to import ComicRack metadata from CBZ, CBR, CB7, etc.
Then, if possible, to export data into a ComicInfo.xml [probably not fea$able for the proprietary CBR(RAR) format] An example ComicInfo.xml I made by filling in all the possible info in ComicRack: Spoiler:
Supports all kinds of info except, notably, Tags and IDs. Though there is a script (for ComicRack) to export tags to the notes section (so an option for this might be handy). |
01-12-2012, 10:04 AM | #268 |
Kindle user
Posts: 22
Karma: 10
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Falls Church, VA
Device: Kindle
|
IMDB metadata
I know this has been touched on before, but I'd like to ask specifically if any of the wonderful metadata-scraping plugin authors would be willing to create one for imdb.com.
I've tried various other video cataloging apps and keep coming back to how much better calibre is. So I've got my 5,000 entry collection imported and am happily customizing fields, using the great "Search the internet" plugin, etc, etc. The ONLY thing missing is a bulk metadata feature. I'm happy to kick in $20 via paypal if it makes any difference... Thanks for listening! -Andy |
01-12-2012, 09:52 PM | #269 |
Plugin Developer
Posts: 6,438
Karma: 4276871
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Midwest USA
Device: Kindle Paperwhite(10th)
|
"Reading List" on Any eReader -- The "000" Solution
Hi all,
I'm going to describe how I've been using my eReaders so you guys can tell me if there's already something out there that does the same thing or if I should go ahead with making a plugin to do it. Or you can just call me crazy, I guess. I read a lot of fanfic, which is very serial, with new updates coming out frequently. Probably +90% of my reading is in these 'new' books. I want to keep all my new or newly updated stories together somewhere easy to find. I've used 5 different reader devices and programs and the only way I've found to do that, that works across all of them, is to manipulate the story title. The short version is that I prepend "000 " to the titles of my 'current' books I load them on my eReaders so they're all grouped at the top. (I have a rather ugly set of scripts and tools I've evolved to do this for me and manage my collection.) With a bit of setup, Reading List can sync my current three eReaders from Calibre relatively painlessly and, with kiwidude's help exposing some APIs for me, FanFictionDownLoader can update the lists automatically. Now I'm working on the 000 title step. I already have a (private) version of FanFictionDownLoader that will create/update a copy of the new/updated book with "000 " prepended to the title, and add both to the Reading Lists setup to sync the devices. (When an epub or mobi is sent to a device, Calibre already changes the title in the metadata being sent. A copy is made because changing the title of the 'source' book causes issues with syncing--the 000 version is orphaned when the title is changed back.) That's when I realized I've been using the 000 solution for other, non-fanfic books as well. And it occurred to me that rather than rolling it into FanFictionDownLoader perhaps it's something that other people would like to use. I see such a plugin offering features to:
Unless there's something better out there I don't know about, this is functionality I will be developing for my own use if nothing else. The question is, would it be useful to make it available to other people, too. Or is it just too ugly a hack. Jim |
01-13-2012, 03:41 AM | #270 |
Calibre Plugins Developer
Posts: 4,661
Karma: 2162064
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Australia
Device: Kindle Oasis
|
@Jim - I've read this twice and I still don't understand what it is you are doing
However to answer your last question in the post, yes it does sound like an ugly hack. You should never have a need to be fiddling with the title field in calibre, encouraging people to do so will then break numerous other plugins like metadata download, find duplicates etc. Since I don't get what you are hoping to achieve I don't know if this is the correct solution for you, but have you looked into metadata plugboards? You don't mention them in your post. They are the "proper" way to manipulate titles when sending to the device without changing them in calibre. |
Tags |
calibre, chatbot, cover, epub fix, epub-fix, google books, kindle, metadata calibre title, missing, pdf, pdf and calibre, plugin development, scribe |
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
PRS-505 Any ideas what this might be? | Neupy | Sony Reader | 4 | 07-03-2012 07:19 AM |
New Plugin Type Idea: Library Plugin | cgranade | Plugins | 3 | 09-15-2010 12:11 PM |
Ideas? | mike_bike_kite | Which one should I buy? | 10 | 06-13-2010 03:37 PM |
Ideas | F1Wild | Amazon Kindle | 4 | 07-10-2009 06:01 AM |