[GUI Plugin] SmartEject

[JimmXinu]

Have you ever added or deleted books from your calibre library, only to find that you forgot to add or delete them from your ebook device later when you connected it? Or ever just wanted a big, easy to click eject button on your toolbar?

That's what SmartEject does.

When you attach your device, you can have an eject button on your 'device connected' main toolbar. When you click it, it checks for duplicate, added or deleted books on the device and offers to show them to you if there are any.

Main Features of SmartEject Plugin:

• Top level device eject button, suitable for main toolbar.
• Check for duplicate books on device before ejecting.
• Check for books in library, but not on device before ejecting.
• Check for books on device, but not in library before ejecting.
• Configure which checks to perform on a library-by-library basis.

Special Notes:

• Requires Calibre v0.8.57 or later.
• With large or complex libraries, displaying the lists of dup/added/deleted books can be slow.

Installation Steps:

1. Download the attached zip file and install the plugin/add to context menu or toolbar/restart Calibre as described in the Introduction to plugins thread.

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Version History:

Spoiler:

Version 0.1.0 - 05 Oct 2012
Initial public release.

[cklls]

I have several different reader apps on my Android tablet, and have, at times, loaded the same book into multiple app libraries. Would this app find them within the different libraries and allow me to selectively remove them from two while leaving it in the third? That's what I'm understanding from the description, but I've been known to misunderstand things now and then! If that's what this does, I love you even more than I did when you introduced the fanfic plug-in!!!!

[JimmXinu]

If calibre would see them as duplicates, yes.

SmartEject does three different searches:

• Dups: From the Library, search ondevice:"("
• Deleted: From each device location (Main, Card A & Card B), search inlibrary:False
• Added: From the Library, search not ondevice:"~[a-z]"

My experience is that the dup search will find the same book in different places on my Android smart phone. I assume your Android tablet would work the same.

However, you might cause yourself problems with some reader apps if you just delete the files. Aldiko comes to mind as one that manages it's own library.

[cklls]

Aldiko is one of my apps, but I've also got Mantano, Moon+, FBReader, CoolReader, and at least one other. Tried and liked elements of each, and use them for different purposes at different times. I've just managed to load too many dupes into them and, as you obviously know, it clogs up my SD card with extra files.

You are one serious gem, my dear!! Can't wait to try this out. Thanks for another great reading tool.

[JimmXinu]

FYI, checking Preferences > Searching > 'Limit the searched metadata' and setting the columns to search to 'title, authors, tags, series, publisher, comments, identifiers' (NOT any of my custom columns) speeds up the display searches for me a fair bit.

By rights, I wouldn't expect it to, since the searches SmartEject uses are all prefixed with a column.

The call to self.gui.library_view.model().db.search_getting_id s(...) is very very fast.

The call to self.gui.search.do_search() after self.gui.search.setEditText(...) is much slower. If do_search() doesn't do the same prefix optimization, that could explain the speed up.