06-24-2010, 10:54 AM | #1 |
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Anybody programming a Calibre APPS???
Hello all you great programmers out there
All the people are speaking about IBooks, some about other bookreaders for the Ipad. I bought an Ipad about a week ago, since then I am experimenting with different Book readers. I have about 3000 books in calibre and i would really like to get A L L my information (and a tab for book read) from Calibe to my reading device and also to be able to sort/serch my books in differnt ways. Therefore I am Asking all of our programmers - Is there one out there to programm a APPS that works with Calibre??? The data transfer could run through Itunes like now or through the same prozess used by Stanza. Calibre allready has a Server so why not use it - and trnasfer all the information including comments, tags, series, series numbers and so on!!! I would be quit willing to pay a few € for this Apps. Thanks and maybe sombody start with this Best regards Thomas P.S. I am not good enough to do this myself |
06-24-2010, 11:11 AM | #2 |
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Calibre 0.7x has an Apple driver that supports the iPad. Start iTunes, plug in your iPad, calibre will recognize it.
If calibre doesn't see your connected iPad, see 'Calibre 0.7 + iPad: Start here' in the calibre forum for help. G |
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06-24-2010, 11:27 AM | #3 | |
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I know that Calibre has an Apple Driver, but i do not see the iBooks apps as a really good Apps to handle a larger amount of books, aditonally a lot of Information from Calibre is not transfered. I am really looking forward to an apps whcih can handle alle the information gathered in Calibre, and use this information for Sort/find Thanks Thomas |
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06-24-2010, 11:46 AM | #5 |
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None of the major ebook reading apps take much consideration for book organization beyond the most rudimentary. Stanza is probably the most capable in that regard and even that could use some work.
iBooks does take the a calibre 'tag' field and you can use that to sort collections/series. |
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06-24-2010, 12:04 PM | #6 |
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As of 0.7.5, calibre also offers the option of using the Series name as the Genre.
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06-24-2010, 12:16 PM | #7 | |
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A Calibre-specific reader app would have to talk to Calibre directly. The Calibre server could potentially be used for syncing books with metadata. Anyone who writes such an app would need: 1) Permission from the makers of Calibre 2) Want to make it for free (charging money may be a problem... would need permission from Calibre and potentially all the software devs that Calibre uses (like ImageMagick)) |
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06-25-2010, 01:06 AM | #8 | |
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The best way to provide what the OP is requesting would probably be to extend the pre-existing webserver to serve more data. Although, I am personally happy with that which is displayed in Stanza. |
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06-25-2010, 08:46 AM | #9 | |
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Stanza can do??
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I am also quite happy about the data/sorting provided through Stanza and Calibre Server! But these are only shown when connected to the calibre server: Now If I could dowload this data in groups or all together and have the same information availabele when not connected to the server THAT would be What I am Looking For !! Thomas |
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06-25-2010, 08:56 AM | #10 |
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You can use calibre's catalog builder to create an epub catalog of your entire library which you can then send to your iPad. See 'Creating catalogs' in the calibre forum.
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