Cybook support in calibre

[Mhargu]

When I asked about subdirecties, I meant putting all books in the same subdirectory, because as tompe said in this post (link) the directory lookup time increases, if there are a lot of books in the /eBooks folder.

But with the next firmware update maybe allowing browsing the library by directories, it would make sense to use different subdirectories.

I don't think, every tag should lead to a subdirectory. Maybe tags that start with a special character or are marked in some other way.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@user_none

You could have the driver map tags to sub directories. You can have the convention that if the tag has / character in it, it is split up into sub directories. So for example, if a tag is

"fiction/scifi/asimov" the book would be placed in eBook/fiction/scifi/asimov

I think that's a great idea.

[pdurrant]

The current firmware does support sorting via subdirectories - it's the sort by filepath option.

Originally Posted by user_none

With any luck Bookeen will support sorting via subdirectories on the device itself, so this will be extra handy.

[pdurrant]

I'd like to see the books copied into subdirectories based on the sorting order Author's name. So books by Charles Dickens would go in a

Dickens, Charles

subfolder.

I also like the idea of being able to specify a particular subfolder through a tag. How about defaulting to an author name folder, but if you get a tag

PATH/subfolder/subsubfolder

(where PATH is a just marking the tag as a default path) it would override the default author folder. Hmm.. it would be elegant to combine these.

Perhaps have a special AUTHOR reserved word as well

PATH/subfolder/AUTHOR/subsubfolder

It's very easy making work for others. :-)

Originally Posted by user_none

@kovidgoyal, Interesting way to handle subdirectories. The Cybook uses a Fat32 partition.

@Mhargu, What do you think of Kovoid's idea? Or would you rather see it handled in a different manner.

[plazec]

downloading calibre newer than 0.4.126 gives me virus varning
but ignorig that(not very good idea):
starting calibre with my cybook connected gives me this error:

list index out of range
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\__init__.pyo", line 148, in dispatch
  File "main.py", line 571, in metadata_downloaded
  File "main.py", line 889, in sync_news
  File "calibre\library\database2.pyo", line 220, in has_id
IndexError: list index out of range

but cybook is detected, only with interal memory is identified as SD card an vice versa.

[user_none]

Everyone who's Cybook isn't being detected with the latest release could you please run:

calibre-debug -c "from calibre.devices.scanner import DeviceScanner; s = DeviceScanner(); s.scan(); print repr(s.devices)"

And post the output.

@plazec, No idea about the error. It doesn't have to do with the Cybook driver. Hopefully Kovid can shed some light on it. As for the virus warning. I'd say it's a false positive in a heuristic scanner. No one else is having issues. The entire project is open source so you can verify thaplazect there isn't anything nefarious yourself. Also, the bug with the memory locations being switched, the next release has this fixed (hopefully).

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by plazec

downloading calibre newer than 0.4.126 gives me virus varning
but ignorig that(not very good idea):
starting calibre with my cybook connected gives me this error:

list index out of range
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\__init__.pyo", line 148, in dispatch
  File "main.py", line 571, in metadata_downloaded
  File "main.py", line 889, in sync_news
  File "calibre\library\database2.pyo", line 220, in has_id
IndexError: list index out of range

but cybook is detected, only with interal memory is identified as SD card an vice versa.

That happens because calibre is trying to send your downloaded news to the detected device, but the news is not in MOBI format. Will be fixed in next release.

[kafka399]

Originally Posted by user_none

@kafka399, Gah. Run hal-device again and attach the output.

calibre-debug -c "from calibre.devices.scanner import DeviceScanner; s = DeviceScanner(); s.scan(); print repr(s.devices)"
[(7531, 1, 518), (1133, 49174, 832), (7531, 1, 518), (7531, 1, 518), (7531, 1, 518), (3034, 1795, 306), (7531, 2, 518)]

[Pulp]

About subdirectories:

A lot of mp3-ripping tools give the option to copy the mp3s into folders based on certain userdefinable parameters like bandname/albumname/cd#/title, it would be amazing if we could have the same option.

Also I would really love if calibres folder-hierarchy could be preserved and replicated on the cybook when using the send to device option.

PS: Thank you so much for offering a solution for us Cybook-geeks

[pdurrant]

This is on Mac OS X 10.5.6:

paul:~ pdurrant$ calibre
link hasn't been detected!
link hasn't been detected!
Unable to open device
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/device.pyo", line 59, in detect_device
File "calibre/devices/usbms/device.pyo", line 291, in open
File "calibre/devices/usbms/device.pyo", line 219, in open_osx
NameError: global name 'subprocess' is not defined
paul:~ pdurrant$ calibre-debug -c "from calibre.devices.scanner import DeviceScanner; s = DeviceScanner(); s.scan(); print repr(s.devices)"
[(1452, 32773, 272), (1452, 539, 24), (1452, 32773, 272), (1452, 32773, 272), (1452, 33344, 272), (1452, 32773, 272), (1452, 33285, 6501), (1452, 32774, 512), (1507, 1544, 1794), (1452, 34049, 388), (1208, 5, 256), (1507, 1544, 1794), (1507, 1544, 1794), (6371, 37121, 0), (1604, 0, 0), (1133, 49213, 8192), (3034, 1795, 306)]
paul:~ pdurrant$

Originally Posted by user_none

Everyone who's Cybook isn't being detected with the latest release could you please run:

calibre-debug -c "from calibre.devices.scanner import DeviceScanner; s = DeviceScanner(); s.scan(); print repr(s.devices)"

And post the output.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by user_none

Everyone who's Cybook isn't being detected with the latest release could you please run:

calibre-debug -c "from calibre.devices.scanner import DeviceScanner; s = DeviceScanner(); s.scan(); print repr(s.devices)"

And post the output.

64M Cybook running build 796 on WinXP SP3:

calibre-debug -c "from calibre.devices.scanner import DeviceScanner; s = DeviceScanner(); s.scan(); print repr(s.devices)"

[u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c9&rev0001', u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c8&rev00
01', u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27cb&rev0001', u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid27cc
&rev0001', u'usb\\vid_0409&pid_0056&rev_0000', u'usb\\vid_058f&pid_6362&rev_0100
', u'usb\\vid_058f&pid_6390&rev_0100', u'usb\\vid_3034&pid_1795&rev_0132']

[user_none]

@kafka399, Hal isn't picking up the main memory properly. Attach the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-calibre.fdi

@pdurrant, Looks like I missed an import. OS X support should be working in the next release.

[kafka399]

Originally Posted by user_none

@kafka399, Hal isn't picking up the main memory properly. Attach the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-calibre.fdi

ok, let's try this one

[ErwinOtten]

Installed 0.4.127 on a Vista machine. My Cybook (with 512Mb) got detected right away.
Just waiting for the mobi-support right now

Keep up the good work

[bwaldron]

My 64MB Cybook (running firmware 796) is recognized fine with Calibre 0.4.127 (other than the known issue of the internal and SD card lablels being swapped).