01-02-2013, 10:10 AM | #421 |
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Hyphenation "emulation" in AZW3 (which IS possible)
The latest firmware for Kindle 3, Kindle 4, Kindle Touch and Kindle PaperWhite added the support for the new AZW3/mobi8 format. ePub format is not actually handled by Amazon devices but the latest mobi version handles many of the ePub features and an ePub converted to mobi8 with calibre looks very similar to the original.
However there's an important missing feature on kindles: hyphenation. Actually there's an hack (by Ixtab) for Kindle Touch an Kindle Paperwhite which adds hyphenation support for the older mobi format, but it cannot work for AZW3/mobi8. The weird thing is that hyphens can already be handled by the new kindle format. If you manually insert the ­ HTML entity (soft hyphen) between the syllables in an ePub book and convert it to AZW3 they're correctly rendered on the screeen. And it won't affect indexing and searching. Here is a post with a sample. Yes, it's definitely not elegant and files will be larger but at the moment it's the only option to have hyphenation on this format (and more in general, on un-hacked e-ink Kindles). It would then be nice to have a plugin (or to modify an existing one) to add/remove this sort of "hyphenation emulation" to ePubs before conversion to mobi8/azw3. Last edited by pirl8; 01-02-2013 at 10:36 AM. |
01-02-2013, 10:50 AM | #422 |
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Extract Pubdate
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Is it possible for you to create a plugin based on Extract ISBN that extracts the original year of publication? Most books contain, within the first few pages, the copyright symbol or the word Copyright. The first occurrence of four adjacent digits after the copyright symbol or word should be the year of first publication. It would be nice if this year could be extracted and used to set the pubdate metadata field (with month and day both set to 1). Examples: Copyright © 2003 by Belfry Holdings, Inc. Copyright © 1991 by John Grisham Copyright by John Doe 1988 © by Jane Doe, 1999 I want to use this original publication year to get my books sorted by author and then by original publication year, because I like to read books from an author in the order they were published, which is most likely the order in which they were written. So I organise by author, then by publication year, then by series number or title. Could you please let me know if this is possible for you? Thanks in advance. Last edited by Martin Hollander; 01-13-2013 at 08:42 AM. |
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01-27-2013, 09:30 PM | #423 |
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A NEW IDEA FOR A PLUGIN
I have a column titled Release Date. Whenever there is a book I’m particularly interested in that has yet to be released I’ll put an empty book in and put its release date in that column. Then I try to remember to check that column every once in the while. Once I’ve purchased the book I take the release date out and add the book into the blank entry. Somewhere in here is a couple of ideas for a plugin. 1. The first idea is a plugin that based on the date in that column (or a date that is entered some other way) turns the row red when that date arrives and keeps it red until you let it know (somehow) that the book has been purchased. It would be nice to have the icon on the toolbar change color to let you know that a new book has been released. 2. The second idea for a plugin would be would allow you to enter a list of authors and each time caliber is started up the plugin would reach out to Barnes and Noble or Amazon or both and let you know if a new book has been set for release. The user can then select from the list interested/not interested and then the plugin would let you know when that book has actually been released. Again in addition to the popup list it would be great if the icon on the toolbar would change color when there were new books set for release until the user selected interested/not interested, and also when the book was released until the user indicated the book had been purchased. I'm not a programmer. I have no idea how any of this would be accomplished. But I really like the idea of Calibre working with me for new books. Thanks |
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Last week FictFact informed me of the latest book by Kim Harrison being released and two series I read announced new books to be published further down the road. Quote:
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01-28-2013, 08:52 AM | #425 |
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Thank you for the recommendation. This website is great but it only tracks series. An author like John Grisham who (other than Theodore Boone) doesn't do series is lost here.
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01-28-2013, 09:21 AM | #426 |
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I put the release date in the remarks column and use a custom column GetBook (yes/no). Then via a saved search I periodicially run and check the date. Not elegant put I rarely purchase books when released, rather wait for the price to decrease; hopefully...
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01-31-2013, 07:13 PM | #427 |
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A few quick ideas
A few plug ins I'd like to see.
- A Metadata plug in for Shelfari. I know they don't have an API so it'd have to be done via scraping which isn't ideal for users and can be an outright PITA for the developer if the site changes. But it's a very good source of well maintained, and very comprehensive metadata and cover images that I find myself using more and more often to verify and correct metadata I get from other places. So a metadata plug in for Calibre using it would be excellent. - A Sync/support plugin for Google's My Library. I switched over to using Google from Goodreads (for various reasons that aren't important). However it was reluctant due to the Goodreads Sync plug in's excellence. I would love to see a similar plugin for Google. |
02-09-2013, 02:19 PM | #428 |
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Well, recently I tried to convince Kovid to use the attached picture for RTF files instead of the current one. I thought it was more accurate. If you want to change it, go into:
\Calibre\resources\images\mimetypes Then copy over the image attached and replace the old one. |
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Will read Calibre's manual on plugins and raise an idea. In my native language words are much longer than in English and I am crazy about this soft-hyphenation myself. |
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03-13-2013, 09:18 AM | #432 |
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03-15-2013, 01:56 PM | #433 | |
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I did recently find a setting in Calibre's metadata gathering preferences that helps, something to the effect of "use original publication date when possible". With that setting activated, I seem to get the original publication date more often than in the past, though it's not perfect. Last edited by usuallee; 03-15-2013 at 01:59 PM. |
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03-24-2013, 02:47 PM | #434 |
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Highlight, Annotate and Sync from iDevice / iPad ?
I know iBooks does highlight and provide basic notes / annotation abilities for ePub. I'd like to be able to sync/ maintain them - |
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