[kiwidude]

Got an idea for a plugin? Feel free to add them to this thread if you haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere. Who knows, if it is a good enough idea someone might even write it for you if you need the help, it has happened before...

Plugin idea discussions

To ensure this thread becomes manageable over time and to help out new visitors to the forum, here is a summary of the plugin suggestions to date from this thread. For anything you see marked as implemented, please go to the relevant plugin thread to discuss further changes or requests.

• Goodreads shelf synchronisation starts here. Implemented as Goodreads Sync plugin
• Duplicates finder starts here. Implemented as Find Duplicates plugin
• DOI Journal numbers starts here
• Tweak/fix epub css and/or xpgt starts here
• Scrape and update a custom field starts here
• Find new releases for a list of authors starts here
• Manage series starts here. Implemented as Manage Series plugin
• Moving files marked read on reader to a read folder starts here
• Mark book to be sent to device on next connect starts here. Implemented as Book Sync plugin
• Saving Kindle APNX files to hard-drive starts here. Implemented as APNX Generator plugin
• Find poor quality covers, invalid metadata starts here. Implemented as Quality Check plugin
• Custom cover generator starts here. Implemented as Generate Cover plugin
• Tag cleaner to consolidate downloaded tags starts here
• eBookwise IMP library transfer starts here
• Plugin updater starts here. Implemented as Plugin Updater plugin
• Look for files with incorrect file extensions like CBZ/CBR starts here
• Search local drive for matching author/books starts here
• Workflow automation to script sequence of various plugin actions starts here
• Upload books to an HTTP server e.g. Cloudreader on iPad starts here.
• Review EPUB metadata and put Calibre convert version into custom column starts here
• Custom views for different tasks starts here. Implemented as View Manager plugin
• Graphical catalog for browsing book collection starts here
• Content server status starts here. Implemented as patch in Calibre 0.7.55
• Compare two books using a diff tool starts here
• Add a publish button to distribute a book on the internet starts here
• Automatically queue books for remote storage starts here
• Search across your library book contents starts here ePub Search in Quality Check plugin
• Integration with BitTorrent starts here
• Value your library like a portfolio getting prices from Amazon starts here
• When restarting Calibre open last book read at last page read starts here
• Mark read items then delete from Stanza starts here
• Store author biography information starts here
• Manipulate Kindle mbp files to reset date read starts here
• Define news recipes at a per device level and allow syncing to a specific device starts here
• Define a to-read list allowing ordering starts here. Implemented as Reading List plugin
• Identify books in your library that have won awards starts here
• Backup your library and plugin settings starts here
• Create a poster from your book covers starts here
• Copy the TOC from a book to a custom field starts here
• Identify book samples starts here
• Edit MOBI headers and metadata starts here
• Store which device for book in custom columns starts here Implemented in Reading List plugin
• Change Calibre skin starts here
• Font changer for ePubs starts here
• Translate foreign languages starts here
• Toolbar button per library starts here
• Automatically download metadata for new books without any starts here
• Metadata from Smashwords, Fictionwise, AllRomance starts here
• Update custom column after conversion starts here
• Copy book information for posting to a blog starts here
• Generate books for an author (including books you don't have) starts here
• ISSN based metadata for electronic magazines starts here
• Metadata from arbookfind and commonsensemedia.org starts here
• BISAC code tagging starts here
• Content comparison for ePub starts here
• Omnibus/Short story collection mgmt starts here
• Top 100/social based list importing/mgmt starts here
• Calibre-server enhancements for administration capability starts here
• Tag cloud generator starts here
• Turkish metadata sources idefix.com/kitap or kitapyurdu.com starts here
• CBR to CBZ conversion enhancements starts here
• Dual language ebook conversions starts here
• Statistics for books (e.g. in tag browser by year) starts here
• Cross library duplicate comparisons starts here
• Managing hierarchical tags starts here
• Update a read custom column from device view starts here
• ComicInfo integration to download metadata and export xml starts here
• Metadata from IMDB for calibre users storing videos starts here
• Switch between save to disk templates when saving starts here
• Find books through Overdrive starts here
• Conversion plugin for Wolfram Computable Document Format starts here
• Control which metadata to import when adding ebooks starts here
• Setup calibre as a shared library with controlled book checkouts starts here
• Merge highlights/notes back into PDF starts here. Implemented as Sony PRS-T1 notes plugin
• Merging multiple ePubs into an omnibus starts here. Implemented as EpubMerge plugin
• Smashwords validator for ebook submission starts here
• Delete source file after conversion starts here
• Find PDFs which have DRM starts here
• Read metadata from FictionDB starts here. Implemented as FictionDB plugin
• Check for duplicated/deleted books on device eject starts here
• Find duplicate series names starts here In progress by kiwidude
• Auto-convert to desired format from calibre content server starts here
• Spook calibre as a Kindle for sync with Amazon store starts here
• Integrate Get Books with Reading List to update a wishlist price column starts here
• Execute command/batch file after downloading to device starts here
• Adding books to a Shelfari account starts here
• Plugin toolbar container to reduce space starts here Implemented in Favourite Menus plugin
• Report unused CSS styles starts here
• Cover fetcher by ISBN from publishers home pages starts here
• Build MobiMetaEditor functionality into calibre starts here. Implemented in Quality Check plugin
• Integrate with kindle.amazon.com for tracking reading starts here
• Download Spanish metadata from www.lecturalia.com starts here
• Download Google images for covers starts here
• Nook SimpleTouch shelf manager starts here
• Dictionary lookup to LEO.org starts here