02-21-2012, 03:58 PM | #166 |
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You should be using the Series column in calibre, rather than lengthening your title. That allows the series information to appear separately displayed on the generated cover.
Then use a metadata plugboard (see the sticky in the Library Management forum) so that your internal metadata combines series and title when the book is sent to the Kindle (to give you the sorting on the Kindle you desire with a combined series volume title name). |
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When you double-click on the book that hasn't been opened before, first thing you see is the cover, and then you can scroll down to begin reading. This plugin does generate a physical jpeg file for the cover, but it doesn't insert it back into the book like the other methods do. |
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@iaetheia - there seems to be multiple things you are throwing into the mix here. These are the facts:
(1) The calibre ebook viewer will display from the very start of the book (be it epub or whatever other format like mobi it converted to epub to display it). So if the first page in that book is a cover image, that will get displayed. (2) Mobi formats on a Kindle device do not display the cover image when you first open the book. It intentionally skips past such covers, as Amazon ideally want the user to be able to start reading straight away. Some people fudge this using duplication (so a content page following the official cover page and duplicates the cover image). But that is a silly thing to do in my opinion in that it bloats the book and you can't easily replace the "inner" cover. As dwanthny said initially, if you want to see the cover on a Kindle device just click the left button after opening the book. (3) Both of those facts bear absolutely no relation to what this plugin does. Calibre stores in its library folders for each book a cover.jpg file for display on the book details panel. This plugin modifies that jpg only, nothing else. As does drag/dropping an image onto that cover in the book details or edit metadata window. As does downloading a cover using metadata download. As does using the "extract cover from ebook" feature. Not one of those approaches will change the cover inside the book itself in isolation. (4) If you then want that cover.jpg which you have sourced/generated to be *inside* your book (so it can be displayed in the calibre ebook viewer or on your device), then the post above from dwanthny lists all of your options for making that happen. Hope that clears things up for you... |
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(a) A book in three parts, that are also members of a series. For example, Winnetou has three volumes, each with a different name. The title of each book would be "Winnetou 1. Title" and so on. The right formatting on the cover would be to break the line at dot and not write the dot, and write the title as "Title<br>Winnetou 1". (b) A different example, two books, the second being the continuation of the first. However, they have different titles. Here I am still thinking at a logical naming scheme: "First title 1" and "First title 2. Second title". It would be logical to use the custom text field, but (a) I did not find yet the right pattern to be used in both dot titles and dotless titles, and (b) I did not find a way to use ONLY the custom text field as the cover, and include the image as part of the custom text field. Thank you for the help. |
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@hfpop - why would you not just use the series name column for both those examples?
e.g. title: Apache Gold series: Winnetou [1] And a "second book being a continuation of the first" is surely just another series? Then with a metadata plugboard your book can appear as "Winnetou 1 - Apache Gold" or formatted however differently you like. And this cover plugin already displays the series name on a separate line so you don't have to do anything special with it. Personally I won't be making a modification to the plugin to try to split on "dots", there are way too many cases where it would go wrong (Mr. & Dr. etc). However you have the plugin source code, so if you want to make the changes yourself for your own personal usage then go for it (bearing in mind you will have to continually integrate with any future plugin updates). A warning that it is not quite trivial though, there is a lot of "nasty" code to do with sizing things in there which you will have to "break" to compensate for a title taking multiple lines. |
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Is there a way to use data from Calibre in the Custom text field?
The error message I got when I tried, implied that it is possible, so I am hoping I just need to find out the right syntax. I am thinking or, for example, the Series column, or a custom column I have set up which displays the status (completed or in progress) of an eBook (story). This has the potential to be really useful, especially to be able to display series info... |
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You can put whatever text you like in there that the calibre template language supports. For your screenshot don't forget to put a # in front of any custom column names, so #status not status.
You mention series a couple of times - you don't need to use the custom text feature to display series, it is already displayed (as ticked in your screenshot - just that your book selected does not have the series populated). If you mean to show a secondary series column, then yes that is certainly possible like any other custom column. |
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Thank you - much appreciated.
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Generic Covers
Kudos on such a great plugin that enhances calibre's rather dull atomatic cover creator.
I usually use calibre to manage the fanfiction I read, especially now in combiation with that other wonderful plugin FanFictionDownLoader. Well I got bored and made a few generic covers for my fanfic sites cuz it's really hard to find coers to match the stories I read and I thought I'd share em in case any1 else might want em. Oh and here are some font links to give things a bit more pizazz: Harry Potter Logo Font Harry Potter Title Font Naruto Logo Font Buffy the Vampire Slayer Font Last edited by paegan; 02-29-2012 at 03:10 AM. Reason: Fixin images |
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Hi paegan, thanks for sharing those, I am sure others will find them useful. I will add some index links to the first post as there are a few users now who have kindly added their images throughout this thread.
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Sure, no problem. I can do other sites by request so ppl can put a msg in the thread & can do those up quick ...
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If someone wants the settings I used for my "script" covers, I'd be happy to provide. I uploaded examples and images for my Roswell and Firefly scripts here, I've also got covers for Buffy, Angel, and Doctor Who (one for each incarnation). And I'm thinking about a few other similar shows. They'd probably work beautifully for fanfic as well.
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@kiwidude Just a thought, perhaps an import/export layout option may be added to the plugin to make sharing layouts easier? Maybe create a ZIP file containing the JSON for that layout and the custom image/background if applicable. Last edited by ilovejedd; 02-29-2012 at 09:49 AM. |
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