04-20-2012, 11:36 AM | #196 |
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Awesome! Thanks!
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04-20-2012, 05:42 PM | #197 |
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After I posted the other day (and before I got the updated version of the plugin) I played around with severeal ways of approaching this and finally came up with a possible solution. Attached is a bookshelf divider tab that can be added to iBooks like any other book. So far, I've only made this "A" tab, but now that I know what I'm doing, I can finish the alphabet. Thoughts? Suggestions? Am I the only one interested in something likes this?
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04-20-2012, 05:51 PM | #198 |
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Looks like you got the font big enough now
I don't use iBooks enough to comment on the idea itself sorry (don't use my iPads for fiction, only for pdfs/magazines). I can see where you are going with it though. Perhaps people with that many books revert to the list view rather than cover view or something... |
04-23-2012, 07:46 AM | #199 |
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Hello
I'm looking to recreate all covers for 7000 books, since well... i messed up and don't like the current results I am stuck using regular expressions to "tweak" the output and i am having trouble with them. How would you write a RE telling it to "pick the title, but when you see a minus sign, delete it and skip one line" ? So that a book with Author "John Doe" and Title "The Ever War - First Years 1 - Alex Smith" Shows up as the second image (and not the first). Q : Kiwidude do you plan to add a "Right Margin" on your next release ? As text is already "auto-centered" getting a right margin would help getting it "where we want". PS : I have given up using Calibre series metadata because the field doesn't seem to be supported with Aldiko (my main reader). PS2 : Thx again for the amazing plugin |
04-23-2012, 08:04 AM | #200 |
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@Dastral - firstly, don't ever give up on using series metadata . You can use Metadata plugboards to manipulate the metadata when you export books out of calibre (I know nothing about an Aldiko reader, but I am sure you could either use a filename template or a metadata plugboard to insert series into your title). The Kindle doesn't support series info either, but metadata plugboards are how we get the titles to display with series info in them. See the library subforum for the stickies. If you need help setting it up just post in that Library Management forum.
Once you do that, you should find producing the covers you want much easier. And you will not have issues with other plugins or features in calibre which expect series information to be in the series column, not in the title. So I think that just leaves your question about right margins - I'll add your request for it to the list for the next release. |
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04-25-2012, 04:30 AM | #201 |
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Yes, i'll probably end up using Author/Series/Title in calibre and exporting files merging Series/Title metadata in the epub and filename.
I've managed to setup a mobile Calibre so i'm almost "good for life" managing my library. PS : Aldiko is probably the most popular reader software for Android Phones/Tablets Last edited by DASTRAL; 04-25-2012 at 04:34 AM. |
04-25-2012, 07:52 AM | #202 |
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COVERS stay the old ones in IPAD
I have a few books where the covers were wrong/missing. I used Calibre to update the covers. Very nice. They show up in Calibre with the new covers. But when I move the books to IPad, the new covers are neglected. They are not part of the epub file. IPad seeemingly takes the first page of the epub as cover... Any help ???
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04-25-2012, 08:20 AM | #203 |
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Generating a cover only simply replaces the cover file stored within calibre's file system, it doesn't touch the ebook itself. When you send a book to a device like an ePub, calibre will attempt to replace the internal cover with that latest cover image. However in some circumstances the epub does not internally identify which is the existing cover that is in there, so calibre can't do that replacement. Hence you see a different cover in the epub on the device versus that you see in the calibre library.
So you need to do an epub -> epub conversion in calibre before you send to the device, during which calibre will "force" the cover into the epub. From that point on the cover is identifiable by calibre so it is able to further replace it in future if required. |
04-25-2012, 09:13 AM | #204 |
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great help, I will try it, MANY thanks !!!
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04-26-2012, 10:34 AM | #205 |
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Well as Kiwi recommended, started toying around with plugboards and they are very convenient.
However i don't think even with plugboards i'll find a way to reconcile Metadata/Filename/GenerateCover. I'm going to keep trying to make a RE for GenerateCover saying ""pick the title, but when you see a minus sign, delete it and skip one line". Spoiler:
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04-26-2012, 11:01 AM | #206 |
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@Dastral.
It seems to me you have multiple issues here you are rolling into one - I suggest you break them down into their parts. For a start - you want a regex for adding books to calibre when their name looks like: John Doe - End Of Time 1 - The Start.epub John Doe - The Ever War - First Years 1 - Alex Smith.epub This is the regex I use for this (from the Quick preferences plugin): Code:
^(?P<author>((?!\s-\s).)+)\s-\s(?:(?:\[\s*)?(?P<series>.+)\s(?P<series_index>[\d\.]+)(?:\s*\])?\s-\s)?(?P<title>[^(]+)(?:\(.*\))? Title: The Start Author: John Doe Series: End Of Time [1] Title: Alex Smith Author: John Doe Series: The Ever War - First Years [1] Which I believe is the correct metadata for the books that you wanted. As for the second step, I don't know if there is an "easy" way for what you want to achieve. You can do something like this: Code:
{series:re(-,)} {series_index} |
04-26-2012, 11:22 AM | #207 |
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Oooh - figured it out... of course it doesn't want newline characters, it wants a <br/>.
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{series:re(-,<br/>)} {series_index} Last edited by kiwidude; 04-26-2012 at 11:27 AM. Reason: Attached screenshot |
04-30-2012, 08:04 AM | #208 |
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@Dastral,
Using your own image example you posted a while ago, the next version of this plugin will have a right margin capability as shown in the screenshot below. I've got some other changes I am going to look at making before I release - stuff I am considering:
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04-30-2012, 09:03 AM | #209 |
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Finally did it !
This might interest people with hundreds of windows/dos OLD ebooks like me that need cover & metadata processing. Spoiler:
PS : Kiwi i love you Last edited by DASTRAL; 04-30-2012 at 12:28 PM. |
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I wouldn't say I'm screaming for it, but you did say you'd consider this next time you were working on GC.
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