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It's not about justifying why the program was made haha. I had reasons. People in this thread also had reasons. I just made it work how it should of worked all along. Now I'm sharing it for everyone! |
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Having my books in a calibre library doesn't bother me. OTOH, I seem to be able to sort my books in many different ways on many different fields, easily update the metadata (description, covers, publishers, various dates, etc.), keep track of my finished books, etc. And then there are all the plugins I find useful though others probably would list a different set of plugins as being useful.
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I have been using the CBX Shell on Win64 for many years now. It was a little painful getting it set up. If your program's install process works better then that is AWESOME! Thank you!
I just went through the same process a couple of days ago to get Windows Explorer to display thumbnails of my SVG files....I really don't understand why Microsoft can't support these standard file types by default ?!?!? As far as WHY would someone want thumbnails in Windows Explorer instead of Calibre.... I need to edit the ePubs (clean out all the html bloat from poorly coded eBooks) before I add the file to my Calibre OPDS Server. Being able to see the cover thumbnail makes that task much easier. |
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There's definitely a difference between file size and html bloat. I agree you will get your biggest file size changes by fixing the images - but badly coded/bloated html just makes my eye twitch ...
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But with Calibre, you get to see your eBooks in many different ways and you get to see the metadata as well as the cover. So how is your own directory tree better then Calibre? |
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What I do is is a lossless rescompress of the images. I use a value of 70. In most cases, the difference is not noticeable. But before the recompress, I reduce the size of the cover and titlepage to 1600 lines. Also, if there are embedded fonts I don't want, I'll delete them. I'll remove excess CSS classes as there can be hundreds of excess classes. And I'll delete HTML files I don't want such as review blurbs, other books, previews/adds for other books, mailing list signups, etc. And then any images with these deleted pages go as well. These things can make the ePub a bit smaller.
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https://github.com/L0garithmic/epubfixxr As soon as I finish scripting it, it should be here. Hopefully in a day or two. |
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I think this thread has been shoved pretty drastically off-topic.
The thread is discussing how to get thumbnails for epubs to display properly. It isn't discussing the alternative ebook management options, and certainly isn't discussing people's editing techniques. |
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Done, its here. Just don't delete this thread lol. It shows up as one of the first searches for epub thumbnails on google! |
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Windows 10 2004 - Epub Thumbnails are gone
One of my PC's was updated to Windows 10 vers. 2004 and all the EPub thumbnails are gone.
Just installed DarkThumbs and its back! Thank! Last edited by fddekker; 12-12-2020 at 05:25 PM. |
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