libprs500 crashes and other questions
I just got my Sony 505 reader and was very happy to find the libprs500 program. So kovidgoyal, excellent job!!
Now on to the meat of the post:
- On the multiple conversion crashes, I've ran across this and I'm pretty sure it is system specific. i.e. Something on that specific PC is causing the crash. I've run the libprs500 program on my desktop and my laptop, where the desktop exhibits the problem but the laptop has been completely crash free.
Library request: I know there have been a few other posts requesting the importing of save library feature, and I'd like to add a slight twist to that. Is there any way to add the feature of importing the metadata from a previously saved (saved by the libprs500 to disk) ebook to the current library? This would be a big help in a few areas:
- The "series" or "collection" information could be kept with the save disk file. This would make it much easier if you have multiple readers and want to have customized libraries on each without having to redue all of the work creating the series.
- The search feature is nice, but when you have large collections and just want to browse for a book it's a pain to walk through the whole collection. Instead if all of your books are in a nice directory structure (which the libprs500 does right now when you save to disk), it's easy to browse and grab the ones you want with the libprs500 and then upload them into the ebook. (you can do this right now, but since the metadata isn't also loaded if you add say 6 books from a series there is no "collection" info being passed to the Sony Reader)
- Also if you want to share books that you have spent a lot of time customizing the metadata, the only way to do this is to share the libprs500 database. This isn't really the optimal solution since each persons reading preferences are different. Do I really want to read my girlfriends romance novels? <grin>)
Once again, excellent program and much better than the sony software. Keep up the great work!
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