[GUI Plugin] Kindle Collections (Update)

[lohtse]

Originally Posted by dmeyer0

Making "Edit Collections manually..." work with Qt6 is actually surprisingly easy if you're comfortable with editing source code.

Just go to where your plugins live (~/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins on my Mac), unzip "Kindle Collections.zip", and make a couple of minor changes to utilities.py:

where it references

QtGui.QTableWidgetItem.UserType

change that to

QtGui.QTableWidgetItem.ItemType.UserType

and where it references

Qt.ItemFlags

change that to

Qt.ItemFlag

zip "Kindle Collections.zip" back up, restart calibre, and it's just working for me. Hope this helps someone.

This works a damn treat on windows too..

[rekishi]

Hello, it's me again with a problem...

I'm not sure anymore when I last updated the plugin, bit anyway it's the newest version. For various reason, it's been a while since I needed to create new ones...

Anyway, I can create new collections just fine and books also get sorted as they're supposed to.

But latest collection opened after restarting the kindle no longer pops to the top, but goes under the last few collections created (so basically the new collections are like 'sticky posts' always on top). Also, when I open a file in the collection and exit it again, it no longer goes to the top but stays on the place where it was. With multiple pages in a collection that's impractical.

I'm on a kindle 4 and run the newest version of Calibre (6.11) and the plugin. I uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled it, same result.

I attached the debug log and the json (and json.compare, since that was the only one with the date for today) for reference again as txt files since it won't let me up the json. I understand you don't have a ton of time currently, @NiLuJe, but I wanted to flag this for when you touch this the next time. It's probably due to the age of my kindle, so of course I understand if this can't be fixed.

Thank you!

[rekishi]

I reset the kindle (entering the wifi password on a kindle 4 is not fun) and also reverted back to Calibre 5.44 (just reverting back didn't help) and it seems like it might be working again? It's still strange.

[NiLuJe]

FWIW, that just sounds like clock drift (or some sort of out of sync clock, at least).

That issue was probably taken care of by the reset, which is why things appear to behave again.

[avggeek]

Are there any folks on here who use this plugin with multiple Kindle devices?

I'll be getting a new Kindle soon (hopefully one that can JB'ed) and I'd like to have some collections on 1 device and different collections on the 2nd device. Is there a way to achieve this?

[NiLuJe]

Setting are device-specific, so, yeah, that'll work.

[avggeek]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Setting are device-specific, so, yeah, that'll work.

Now I just hope the kindle that arrives has a firmware version that I can jailbreak

[zevi svei]

I try to activate the extension, and in every option I choose I get the following message,
calibre, version 6.13.0
Kindle Collections: Please run "Customize collections" and select OK to save your customizations before running Edit Collections.<P>
what does this mean?

[Finferlo]

Good evening, I have a Kindle 11 with firmware 5.11.1.1 this plugin It doesn't work, am I doing something wrong?

[Finferlo]

Originally Posted by Finferlo

Good evening, I have a Kindle 11 with firmware 5.11.1.1 this plugin It doesn't work, am I doing something wrong?

sorry: 5.15.1.1

[xinpig]

'CalibreInfo' object has no attribute 'lpath_info'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\device.py", line 104, in run
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.create_preview ", line 68, in create
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_boo ks", line 39, in init
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_boo ks", line 62, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_boo ks", line 216, in load_kindle_books
AttributeError: 'CalibreInfo' object has no attribute 'lpath_info'

got this while trying to create a collection. 1.7.29 plugin, 6.14.1 calibre

[NiLuJe]

Originally Posted by xinpig

6.14.1 calibre

The plugin hasn't been updated to support Calibre 6.

[andregaliza]

Originally Posted by lohtse

This works a damn treat on windows too..

It works great on calibre version 6.14.1 on windows 10 and with a kindle 4.1.

For newbies (like me) these are the steps I had to follow:
1-previously uninstall the kindle collections plugin from calibre(did not work).
2-download the original plugin from the forum (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=244202)
3-Open (do not extract) the downloaded kindle Collections.zip file with the 7-zip program and then edit the utilities.py file, as indicated by dmeyer0.
4-Save the edited file and then close 7-zip.
5- Start calibre and install the kindle Collections.zip that we have modified. And voila, it works perfectly.

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by andregaliza

It works great on calibre version 6.14.1 on windows 10 and with a kindle 4.1.

For newbies (like me) these are the steps I had to follow:
1-previously uninstall the kindle collections plugin from calibre(did not work).
2-download the original plugin from the forum (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=244202)
3-Open (do not extract) the downloaded kindle Collections.zip file with the 7-zip program and then edit the utilities.py file, as indicated by dmeyer0.
4-Save the edited file and then close 7-zip.
5- Start calibre and install the kindle Collections.zip that we have modified. And voila, it works perfectly.

What do you have to edit in that file?

[dmeyer0]

See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...72#post4269772 for the changes I made.