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kiwidude · 03-20-2011, 02:14 PM

@klaas. In a word, no. Or rather no progress by myself, and as chaley/Starson17 both indicated they had no interest in writing it themselves my guess is that no-one else has either.

At the time of volunteering to write this I had both a very strong personal need and plenty of time on my hands. However the time got swallowed up by writing and enhancing at least 15 other plugins over the last few months. Right now I am to be honest rather burnt out from the hundreds of hours spent on those, plus I need to spend time on some other more important things in life for the next month or two.

Also I circumvented my personal need for this by "starting again" with a second library, which I am very slowly building up author by author in a very controlled manner, bringing in just the best possible epub I have (or format I can convert to EPUB) and processing as I go. If you add to your library this way there is no duplicate problem to have to solve. It is very slow going, but the reality is that I still already have way more books in the new library than I can possibly read in the short term. And my library contains perfect metadata with quality ready to read versions rather than many thousands of books just for the sake of having them in Calibre. I will continue to work through my preferred/favourite authors first and just prioritise the rest based on recommendations etc. When any friends/family ask for someone I haven't processed as yet I just do a search using Windows Explorer on the many GBs of raw files and pull them into a working directory to find the best and chuck the rest.

When my time frees up again if there is still no sign of this plugin by others then I will take another look at, as I know there are lots of people who would use it. I've written a number of other plugins now that use parts of the Calibre API that this would require, such as working with custom columns, the underlying search/data caches etc so I feel more "prepared" than a few months ago. But it is many hours work which I can't spare at the moment.

If you or someone else gives it a go, good luck and go for it! I would suggest either feeding back in here or preferably in the Developers forum the approach being taken etc. There are some very smart Calibre developers out there like chaley/Starson17 and of course Kovid who can help point you in the right directions, though I suggest you invest a lot of time looking through the Calibre code and some of the other plugins first.

03-20-2011, 02:14 PM	#104
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,731 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	@klaas. In a word, no. Or rather no progress by myself, and as chaley/Starson17 both indicated they had no interest in writing it themselves my guess is that no-one else has either. At the time of volunteering to write this I had both a very strong personal need and plenty of time on my hands. However the time got swallowed up by writing and enhancing at least 15 other plugins over the last few months. Right now I am to be honest rather burnt out from the hundreds of hours spent on those, plus I need to spend time on some other more important things in life for the next month or two. Also I circumvented my personal need for this by "starting again" with a second library, which I am very slowly building up author by author in a very controlled manner, bringing in just the best possible epub I have (or format I can convert to EPUB) and processing as I go. If you add to your library this way there is no duplicate problem to have to solve. It is very slow going, but the reality is that I still already have way more books in the new library than I can possibly read in the short term. And my library contains perfect metadata with quality ready to read versions rather than many thousands of books just for the sake of having them in Calibre. I will continue to work through my preferred/favourite authors first and just prioritise the rest based on recommendations etc. When any friends/family ask for someone I haven't processed as yet I just do a search using Windows Explorer on the many GBs of raw files and pull them into a working directory to find the best and chuck the rest. When my time frees up again if there is still no sign of this plugin by others then I will take another look at, as I know there are lots of people who would use it. I've written a number of other plugins now that use parts of the Calibre API that this would require, such as working with custom columns, the underlying search/data caches etc so I feel more "prepared" than a few months ago. But it is many hours work which I can't spare at the moment. If you or someone else gives it a go, good luck and go for it! I would suggest either feeding back in here or preferably in the Developers forum the approach being taken etc. There are some very smart Calibre developers out there like chaley/Starson17 and of course Kovid who can help point you in the right directions, though I suggest you invest a lot of time looking through the Calibre code and some of the other plugins first.