03-13-2009, 05:12 AM | #1 |
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360 titles from calibre server -> iPhone
Is there a way to speed up this process? I'm clicking each book, getting a summary, and then having to download...
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03-13-2009, 05:54 AM | #2 |
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Not that I know of.
The limitation is the Stanza end not having any bulk transfer capability. Lexcycle have been talking about adding it in a future Stanza release but when and in what form that might appear I have no idea. If you have them online is it worth downloading them all? I personally keep my own online catalog which is setup so I can access it via WiFi when at home or the internet (3G or WiFi) when away from home, so I only download a limited number of books I am actually interested in reading shortly to my iPhone knowing I can get more any time I want them. |
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03-13-2009, 11:25 AM | #3 | |
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My only gripe with Calibre right now is it presents your library as one flat feed and there's no search feature making navigation a bit difficult. Currently working on a PHP script to remedy this behavior. Also studying the source code of server.py from Calibre to determine if maybe I can hack it for categorized view and searching. itimpi has a Visual Basic script that creates categorized static XML feeds but I wanted something a bit more dynamic and with a search function. |
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03-14-2009, 03:08 AM | #4 |
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Hmm, this is a good idea; I have a server hosted with a tier 1 ISP so I have awesome 24/7 access, BUT I don't want to put calibre on it; I'm finding the sqlwriter process needs closing every now and then on my own laptop, so putting it on the (full SQL server) server scares me a little.
Is there a way to put my ebooks on my (apache+PHP+ASP) server, with some structure, but only with ebooks uploaded rather than calibre running? ie if I make a page with ebooks as links, and set the MIME type to download, will stanza open them elegantly? I tried this initially using my PC as a server over WiFi and the books displayed as text-only links, opened without covers, and URLencoded the file names. Messy...but whilst I can follow advise, I'm not savvy enough to have done this propery myself I'm sure... Meanwhile will read on itimpi's script. |
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