KOVID THANK YOU!!!

kycrout · 12-31-2007, 02:54 AM

As a recent owner of the PRS-505, I did not understand the full benefit of your application until I started experimenting.

To be frank, my reading experience would not even be close to what it is, if it where not for your efforts ..

For this, I thank you !

I am a stickler for perfection. One area I seem to muck up is creating a LRF from txt and jpg. Obviously your interpreter does not know chapter heading in order to make line breaks etc .. whereas in html it works really well ..

Two questions if I may
1) I have noticed really nice conversion tools (behind the scenes exe's the GUI uses) but do not seem to find a txt2html.exe. This would be perfect to create a standard converted html doc, which I could then tag with chapter headings (Tried this with word and it stuffed the document up with unnessary tags and rubbish!) and then convert to lrf .. Am I missing it ?

2) Is there actually a way to edit an LRF? Obviously Q1 assumes not, but I just though I ask

I love your work !!

Thanks again !

kycrout

kovidgoyal · 12-31-2007, 11:09 AM

Glad you find it useful. The command markdown-libprs500 will convert txt to html. No there is no easy way to edit LRF files I'm afraid.

kycrout · 12-31-2007, 11:53 AM

Thank you Sir - I shall use that command and then edit the html to put the appropriate tags in !!

Happy New Year to you ...

kycrout · 12-31-2007, 01:07 PM

Sorry to bug again .. could you give me an example command please

i tried markdown-libprs500 d:\c.txt -f d:\c.html but it gave me errors

thanks ..

kovidgoyal · 12-31-2007, 02:30 PM

Hmm works for me on linux. What errors does it give you?

kycrout · 01-01-2008, 08:41 AM

Don't worry about it .. It complained about utf-8 code. If you would like the exact error again Im happy to run it ..

i did however find I could place h tags directly into txt files and your conversion worked perfectly !!! so problem solved ...

many thanks

shousa · 01-13-2008, 05:07 AM

A massive thanks from me as well for kovid.

Have just converted .lit to .lrf.

kovidgoyal · 01-13-2008, 11:05 AM

Thanks

jennaclaire · 01-15-2008, 08:34 PM

Kovid, I just installed your tool today and am playing with it now and man, you are genius. This is the tool that Sony wishes it created. Its elegant to look at and it does it all and I am sure I haven't even scratched the surface.

I am sitting here loading my books now. I noticed you have a ticket for an upcoming release to support adding a folder to import data. Can I suggest taking it one step further to folders and their subfolders? I found my list of ebooks confusing so I sorted them into subfolders within my overall folder. I did this because the Sony software sucks so badly, but I also feel like it winds up looking more orderly. If you can load by folder, could you consider adding in the contents of subfolders too?

I also noticed, because i am a moron sometimes, that you can add the same book to the library multiple times. Adding in the check to see if it is already there might be problematic in implementaton, but I wanted to put that out there as well.

Look for my donation to your awesome software once the bill from the holidays is settled. I've never been so excited to settle a bill before.

you rock.

kovidgoyal · 01-15-2008, 08:49 PM

Glad you like it. Always a pleasure to hear from satisfied users

The import filter is going to be a recursive import. As for not adding the same book twice, good idea, open a ticket for it so I don't forget.

jennaclaire · 01-15-2008, 09:07 PM

I added it. #471.
Another interesting thing I just saw... I keep most of my stuff over on a secondary partition. If I like it, its over there so if my OS gets wonky (its a windows PC), I don't lose the other drive. My c drive is always notoriously full and i just can't be bothered to partitionmagic my way around it. I put the db itself onto my F (data) drive, but the news feeds seem to want to go over onto my c drive anyway which throws an error. does it store it on the root drive by default? (this may be my reason to partitionmagic the bad boy afterall... once i saw i can read the economist over here!)

kovidgoyal · 01-15-2008, 09:23 PM

The news feeds use a temporary directory that ends up on the C:\ drive. You can control it by setting one of the following environment variables

TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP

jennaclaire · 01-16-2008, 09:38 AM

when i do this it tells me that it is unable to find a connected ebook reader. Should it matter if it is hooked up to change the tempdir folder?

kovidgoyal · 01-16-2008, 12:02 PM

Not as far as I know.

jennaclaire · 01-16-2008, 12:07 PM

Maybe I am doing something wrong then. From cmd window, i am switching to the libprs500 directory and typing "prs500.exe tmpir F:\My Documents\libprs500"

error about having the reader connected.

thoughts?

12-31-2007, 02:54 AM	#1
kycrout Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: COOL-ER	KOVID THANK YOU!!! As a recent owner of the PRS-505, I did not understand the full benefit of your application until I started experimenting. To be frank, my reading experience would not even be close to what it is, if it where not for your efforts .. For this, I thank you ! I am a stickler for perfection. One area I seem to muck up is creating a LRF from txt and jpg. Obviously your interpreter does not know chapter heading in order to make line breaks etc .. whereas in html it works really well .. Two questions if I may 1) I have noticed really nice conversion tools (behind the scenes exe's the GUI uses) but do not seem to find a txt2html.exe. This would be perfect to create a standard converted html doc, which I could then tag with chapter headings (Tried this with word and it stuffed the document up with unnessary tags and rubbish!) and then convert to lrf .. Am I missing it ? 2) Is there actually a way to edit an LRF? Obviously Q1 assumes not, but I just though I ask I love your work !! Thanks again ! kycrout

12-31-2007, 11:53 AM	#3
kycrout Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: COOL-ER	Thanks Thank you Sir - I shall use that command and then edit the html to put the appropriate tags in !! Happy New Year to you ...

01-01-2008, 08:41 AM	#6
kycrout Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: COOL-ER	Kovid Don't worry about it .. It complained about utf-8 code. If you would like the exact error again Im happy to run it .. i did however find I could place h tags directly into txt files and your conversion worked perfectly !!! so problem solved ... many thanks

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12-31-2007, 11:09 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Glad you find it useful. The command markdown-libprs500 will convert txt to html. No there is no easy way to edit LRF files I'm afraid.

12-31-2007, 01:07 PM	#4
kycrout Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: COOL-ER	Kovid .. Sorry to bug again .. could you give me an example command please i tried markdown-libprs500 d:\c.txt -f d:\c.html but it gave me errors thanks ..

12-31-2007, 02:30 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Hmm works for me on linux. What errors does it give you?

01-13-2008, 05:07 AM	#7
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	A massive thanks from me as well for kovid. Have just converted .lit to .lrf.

01-13-2008, 11:05 AM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Thanks

01-15-2008, 08:34 PM	#9
jennaclaire Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS-505	Kovid, I just installed your tool today and am playing with it now and man, you are genius. This is the tool that Sony wishes it created. Its elegant to look at and it does it all and I am sure I haven't even scratched the surface. I am sitting here loading my books now. I noticed you have a ticket for an upcoming release to support adding a folder to import data. Can I suggest taking it one step further to folders and their subfolders? I found my list of ebooks confusing so I sorted them into subfolders within my overall folder. I did this because the Sony software sucks so badly, but I also feel like it winds up looking more orderly. If you can load by folder, could you consider adding in the contents of subfolders too? I also noticed, because i am a moron sometimes, that you can add the same book to the library multiple times. Adding in the check to see if it is already there might be problematic in implementaton, but I wanted to put that out there as well. Look for my donation to your awesome software once the bill from the holidays is settled. I've never been so excited to settle a bill before. you rock.

01-15-2008, 08:49 PM	#10
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Glad you like it. Always a pleasure to hear from satisfied users The import filter is going to be a recursive import. As for not adding the same book twice, good idea, open a ticket for it so I don't forget.

01-15-2008, 09:07 PM	#11
jennaclaire Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS-505	I added it. #471. Another interesting thing I just saw... I keep most of my stuff over on a secondary partition. If I like it, its over there so if my OS gets wonky (its a windows PC), I don't lose the other drive. My c drive is always notoriously full and i just can't be bothered to partitionmagic my way around it. I put the db itself onto my F (data) drive, but the news feeds seem to want to go over onto my c drive anyway which throws an error. does it store it on the root drive by default? (this may be my reason to partitionmagic the bad boy afterall... once i saw i can read the economist over here!)

01-15-2008, 09:23 PM	#12
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The news feeds use a temporary directory that ends up on the C:\ drive. You can control it by setting one of the following environment variables TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP

01-16-2008, 09:38 AM	#13
jennaclaire Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS-505	when i do this it tells me that it is unable to find a connected ebook reader. Should it matter if it is hooked up to change the tempdir folder?

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01-16-2008, 12:02 PM	#14
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not as far as I know.

01-16-2008, 12:07 PM	#15
jennaclaire Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS-505	Maybe I am doing something wrong then. From cmd window, i am switching to the libprs500 directory and typing "prs500.exe tmpir F:\My Documents\libprs500" error about having the reader connected. thoughts?