05-11-2012, 08:23 PM | #241 |
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Ok, thanks for letting me know where to find the database file.
I tried the Calibre built in pdf to converter and was pleasantly surprised. A little rough around the edges but more than usable. A text only book of about 300 pages - margins can't be adjusted but text and spacing can. Worth a try. On organising: if I had a collection of 500+ books on my KT then it would be handy to be able to group them into subjects like history, music etc. I can't always remember which books I have loaded on it but the option to see the files as they are named and in the way that I chose to sort them on the device would have been appreciated. The shelves are more elegant sounding but if open ended solutions are so time consuming, at least implement one that is functional until you can also find a way to satisfy users who like high level metaphors on their KT. I've just received my night owl award and must share it with my facebook friends. |
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However, I have not found these programs to do a very good job. They do not provide enough options to let the user detect and strip out headers and footers and notes, join the resulting text cleanly, and then reinsert headers/footers/line numbers and notes in a way that doesn't disturb the main text. How much of this were you able to accomplish? I haven't looked into this yet much. But still, what Kobo themselves need to do is to provide native pdf reading without panning required, using maximal zoom in landscape mode. This is just so obvious, and also so easy to do. Quote:
Also, a "scholar", I think, really needs not a classification of texts, but an structured organization of text excerpts based on their relations to one another. So it is really the annotations that really need to be organized, more than the books themselves. Hopefully at some point we could talk more about the details of such a system, a simple one that would still be quite useful. |
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05-14-2012, 01:48 AM | #243 | |
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What the above means, is that when calibre sends the PDF to the KT, it has modified the metadata in the PDF. i.e. calibre it has written the metadata from its database to the PDF on the KT. As I added this book a while ago, I did experiment with changing the metadata in calibre and resending it to the KT. It worked as I described. I also copied the original version over manually, and it used the rubbish metadata that was in the file. In your case, if your PDF files have the appropriate names before you add them to calibre, change the import setting in calibre to not read the metadata from the contents of the books. There is also a regular expression for how to interpret the filename to get the correct author and book title. For the books already in calibre, editing the metadata should be enough. But, you will probably need to delete them from the KT and get calibre to send them to the KT again. The KT only reads the metadata the first time it sees the book. |
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05-14-2012, 01:02 PM | #244 |
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Hello Everyone
First, for what its worth, I'd like to thank the people who are making the standard touch much better with this 'Plugin'. I read the post over a couple of days and have really had fun getting telnet to work then getting this tweaks plugin to work, And imagining the possibilities. I deleted some books and pictures that I had created using telnet and then broke it!!!! Not to worry because a factory reset unbricks it!!! Amazing. I guess I corrupted the SQLite data base.... So now I'm off learning about this. I'm on a journey man and you have all helped. Thanks. My next thing is to try and get the Wifi to toggle properly. I'm not sure if its something I'm dong wrong but when I toggle the Wifi it says its connecting but doesn't then the little airplane icon comes up. Trying to connect to the store gives me an network error message. If i go settings> Wifi and delete the network then re authenticate using the store then its Ok again until i disconnect. then I'm unable to reconnect. Any thoughts on that? I'd like to get that working reliably so I can maybe set up a cron job to sync with a samba server and download news feeds that Calibre has made. (Its just ideas right now) Any way Thanks again. |
06-15-2012, 02:50 AM | #245 |
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Hello Everyone.
Thank you very much for this tweak. I just stumpled about this forum during search of how to organize books in my KT. After installing the latest version (2012-03-17) it worked. A little bug (just a bit inconvenient (at now; guess it could get more annoying with further use)): When i select home->library->shelves and then return to library via Shelfs->Books, the menu-items "Shelves" and "Create Shelves" disappeared. Restarting with Home-Button->Home->Library they're shown again. More critical is the lack of support of most filetypes. At the moment I've copied some dozen ebooks to the KT, mostly pdf, but also some rtf and txt. I've tried to add some of every type to shelfs, but only the preinstalled Kobo-Epub (Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith) were accepted so the "Ready"-Button was enabled. Additionally I could add the "Welcome to kobo" (kobo epub) and the Kobo Epub Previews which I didn't ask for (so I'd like to add me to the wish of not showing previews in the book-list while adding to shelves). I'll try to convert some pdfs to epub with calibre (after installing calibre as I didn't use it 'til now) and post my experience. As it seems a book can only be added to one shelf (here I've to agree to the person who posted about "Tags" instead of shelves to be able to add one book to more tags/categories/whateveryouwantitcall) it would be very useful to show only books not already in shelves for adding (even better would be an option for "all books"/"just books not in shelves"). As an austrian (NOT australian ) I'm not an english native speaker. So I hope I my post is not too hard to understand. |
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06-18-2012, 04:14 AM | #246 |
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Hello Everyone.
I've converted some pdfs to epub with calibre (the result wasn't very nice, I just used defaults), but the converted epubs could be successfully inserted into shelves. So I have to play around with the converter and its settings I would really appreciate if pdfs could be supported by the tweak. |
06-22-2012, 07:15 AM | #247 |
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I would add some feature on this plugin. Does someone could explain me what I need for?
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06-22-2012, 08:18 AM | #248 | |
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Additionally you need to setup a development environment for compiling stuff that runs on the Kobo touch, roughly described here: http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2011/01/pr...nment-for.html This guide is a bit outdated, but if you look at the first few pages of this thread you should find what you have to change. Build plugins with ~/kobo/qt/bin/qmake && make, copy lib*.so to /usr/local/Kobo on the device, reboot and open the library once to load the plugin. |
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06-22-2012, 09:05 AM | #249 |
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Thanks for your reply, but I can't find Sourcery for windows. Linux is mandatory to develop for Kobo?
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06-22-2012, 09:15 AM | #250 |
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Pretty much, it might be possible to use some black magic to cross compile something that will run on the Kobo but I'm certain that it isn't worth trying. So yes, Linux is mandatory, just setup a VM with Ubuntu.
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06-22-2012, 09:42 AM | #251 |
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Could you give me an advice to select a vm portable?
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06-22-2012, 10:43 AM | #252 |
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Personally I am very happy using VMWare's Player
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06-25-2012, 08:57 AM | #253 |
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books can be in multiple shelves
FYI in case anyone else is interested:
With the tweaks enabled I discovered I can have a book in multiple shelves by listing all the shelf names separated with a ',' (comma) in the "BookshelfTags" column in the Content table of KoboReader.sqlite. |
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07-10-2012, 01:45 PM | #255 |
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Just came from https://getsatisfaction.com/kobo/topics, where I see a posting raving about Kobo Touch revision 2.0.0
I'll be waiting a while to decide whether or not I want to upgrade. |
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