Need help with lrf-meta

shousa · 01-31-2008, 06:25 PM

Using the command window I type in lrfmeta to see what the options are but they zip by so fast with no way to scroll up to see what they are.

1) Could someone tell me how to set the author and author sort data eg Julius Caesar = author and Caesar, Julius = author sort.

2) Also if the book cover is perfect in lrfviewer do I need to add a book cover to the meta-data so the Sony 505 will show a thumbnail? If so could someone also tell me how to do that?

Why do I need this?
I have been using html2lrf (not libprs500 GUI) as it allows me to fix .lit ebooks with errors (by exploding them first).
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19773

Cheers.

kovidgoyal · 01-31-2008, 07:18 PM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

shousa · 01-31-2008, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

Yeah!!!!! I wish I had this years ago!

shousa · 01-31-2008, 08:36 PM

Oohh wait a sec lrf-meta says "making changes may render your lrf file undreadable".

Is it buggy? Are the chances of it working good generally or not?

Also if the book cover is perfect in lrfviewer do I need to add a book cover to the meta-data so the Sony 505 will show a thumbnail?

kovidgoyal · 01-31-2008, 08:38 PM

No it's not buggy. I should probably take that out.

shousa · 01-31-2008, 08:44 PM

Oh that is good.

Also if the book cover is perfect in lrfviewer (made from exploded .lit with html2lrf) will the 505 show a thumbnail based on that or will I need to add a small thumbnail as well?

(still waiting on 505 to arrive)

kovidgoyal · 01-31-2008, 08:59 PM

The 505 doesn't show thumbnails, only the SONY connect software does that

shousa · 02-03-2008, 06:12 PM

On Mobileread I noticed the ebooks have the author as "Caesar,Julius" (no space) and the author-sort as "Caesar, Julius" (with a space).

Thinking this was the way to do it I changed all my ebooks using this method - which I found the most rapid (perhaps 20 secs per book).

1) In Libprs500 GUI highlight all the books and choose to save to disk.

2) For each ebook to have the author changed do the following:

a) open meta-data in GUI and change

b) detach current .lrf file

c) find where you saved the .lrfs (from point 1) and copy and paste the .lrf you wish to change to directory c:/1/, then rename it to 1.lrf

d) copy and past author details from GUI into wordpad within this text
C:\progra~1\libprs~1\lrf-meta C:\1\1.lrf --author=Caesar,Julius --author-sort="Julius, Caesar"

e) copy and paste the text from (d) into console and press <enter>
(link provided by kovid - http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/)

f) attach 1.lrf to current book in GUI

It did not seem to matter that each file being connected was named 1.lrf - when doing step 1 again later it renames it to the title and number again.

Any thoughts?

kovidgoyal · 02-03-2008, 06:50 PM

That's because the GUI doesn't keep track of the files on your file system.

01-31-2008, 06:25 PM	#1
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	Need help with lrf-meta Using the command window I type in lrfmeta to see what the options are but they zip by so fast with no way to scroll up to see what they are. 1) Could someone tell me how to set the author and author sort data eg Julius Caesar = author and Caesar, Julius = author sort. 2) Also if the book cover is perfect in lrfviewer do I need to add a book cover to the meta-data so the Sony 505 will show a thumbnail? If so could someone also tell me how to do that? Why do I need this? I have been using html2lrf (not libprs500 GUI) as it allows me to fix .lit ebooks with errors (by exploding them first). https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19773 Cheers. Last edited by shousa; 01-31-2008 at 06:42 PM.

02-03-2008, 06:12 PM	#8
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	On Mobileread I noticed the ebooks have the author as "Caesar,Julius" (no space) and the author-sort as "Caesar, Julius" (with a space). Thinking this was the way to do it I changed all my ebooks using this method - which I found the most rapid (perhaps 20 secs per book). 1) In Libprs500 GUI highlight all the books and choose to save to disk. 2) For each ebook to have the author changed do the following: a) open meta-data in GUI and change b) detach current .lrf file c) find where you saved the .lrfs (from point 1) and copy and paste the .lrf you wish to change to directory c:/1/, then rename it to 1.lrf d) copy and past author details from GUI into wordpad within this text C:\progra~1\libprs~1\lrf-meta C:\1\1.lrf --author=Caesar,Julius --author-sort="Julius, Caesar" e) copy and paste the text from (d) into console and press <enter> (link provided by kovid - http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/) f) attach 1.lrf to current book in GUI It did not seem to matter that each file being connected was named 1.lrf - when doing step 1 again later it renames it to the title and number again. Any thoughts? Last edited by shousa; 02-03-2008 at 06:15 PM.

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01-31-2008, 07:18 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

01-31-2008, 08:36 PM	#4
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	Oohh wait a sec lrf-meta says "making changes may render your lrf file undreadable". Is it buggy? Are the chances of it working good generally or not? Also if the book cover is perfect in lrfviewer do I need to add a book cover to the meta-data so the Sony 505 will show a thumbnail?

01-31-2008, 08:38 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No it's not buggy. I should probably take that out.

01-31-2008, 08:44 PM	#6
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	Oh that is good. Also if the book cover is perfect in lrfviewer (made from exploded .lit with html2lrf) will the 505 show a thumbnail based on that or will I need to add a small thumbnail as well? (still waiting on 505 to arrive)

01-31-2008, 08:59 PM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The 505 doesn't show thumbnails, only the SONY connect software does that

02-03-2008, 06:50 PM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's because the GUI doesn't keep track of the files on your file system.