06-20-2020, 09:59 AM | #1 |
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integration with Hook
It seems that Calibre for macOS is not compatible with Hook, at least, it is not mentioned there.
It would be wonderful to be able to deep-search through Hook into Calibre. ____________ By the way, it seems that the normal html markdown language is not recognised in <b>any</b> kind of editing. See attachment. Can you help with this too? Many thanks Last edited by adrianf; 09-13-2020 at 10:51 PM. |
06-20-2020, 10:10 AM | #2 |
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I have no idea what hook is. calibre simply stores books in normal folders onthe filesystem. If Hook is a full text search engine, there is no reason it cannot index those books already.
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06-20-2020, 11:20 AM | #4 |
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Looking at the Hook website, Hook looks like a lot of hassle.
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________________ Kovid, I sent you the page Linkable applications to Hook so that you see there
I thought I do you a service, if I contribute in making Calibre better known. Your curt answer suggests, you did not quite appreaciated this. |
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06-20-2020, 11:32 PM | #6 | |
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Now a tool that could create a searchable full text interface to my library? That could be of some use.Though part of Hook's blurb is to use search or Finder to find a "key" document and use the Hook links you have already created to locate the rest of your related files which strongly suggests that Hook does not have any builtin search capability. |
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06-20-2020, 11:36 PM | #7 |
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calibre is the leader in its field, used by millions of people. never heard of Hook. Dont know what it does, and from its page can tell its one of those pathetic mac specific apps that would not recognize an API if it was driving a truck that ran over it.
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Added: But that would not need anything like Hook, the calibre: protocol handler and a Copy Book Link tool should be enough BR Last edited by BetterRed; 06-21-2020 at 01:26 AM. |
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06-25-2020, 10:59 AM | #9 |
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I would also love to be able to use Hook with Calibre. As an academic researcher, I have entries to books in my bibliographic database, the things that I've written, material saved in Evernote, emails in my mail client, and tasks in my task manager – all of which can be connected together neatly by Hook. The bit of my web of information that doesn't fit in is Calibre, where a significant number of my books are stored. I would love to be able to use a Hook link to go straight to a text in Calibre. As it is, I need to write a note in my bibliographic database which tells me that the book in Calibre, which I then need to open and search in to get to it.
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It's not a matter of arrogance but rather the realization that what you want would involve having to be able to open every ebook format handled by calibre (which calibre itself does not do -- the ebook viewer does an on the fly conversion and displays the converted file), adding the ability to create a link to a file within the container and to a specific location/length of the compressed text within that file. This would also require the application (Hook) to be able to open that compressed file and use the link to locate and extract the text. The task is probably doable. Now you need to find someone who is interested in doing the required programming, be willing to pay enough to make it worthwhile to spend time on the task (even programmers have to eat, pay rent, etc.). TANSTAAFL. |
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However, I guess, there are two reasons why we cannot start with it just now:
By the way, does anybody know what is a more precise number of Calibre users on Windows, and on macOS, respectively? Last edited by adrianf; 06-25-2020 at 04:08 PM. |
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You can check the calibre Usage statistics page.
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It was not clear to me that you wanted a link to the content of books. I have no idea what Hook does, nor is it immediately obvious from its webpage that that is what it does. Referencing a little known, and IMO a poorly documented, product is not very effective way of defining a software requirement. I doubt 5% of calibre users are PC aficionados, I certainly wouldn't call myself that. Have you thought about employing a software developer to build a bespoke version of calibre - its licensing would allow that. BTW Kovid wrote 'calibre is the leader in its field' - which is ebook library management. He did not claim it is the 'most used e-reader application'. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 06-25-2020 at 06:41 PM. |
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