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Originally Posted by ldolse
An epub specific plugin which extracts to OEB and does all these epub specific checks/transformations might make more sense, and would be simpler to integrate into Calibre later, and it fits in pretty well with the existing Tweak Epub option which is just begging to be expanded.
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There are pros and cons with this idea. For a start I 100% agree that tweak ePub is something that is prime for additions. And a number of the ideas suggested here would definitely make sense to have as buttons on the tweak ePub dialog or however you would integrate it. For instance, removing old or legacy jackets, updating a jacket, replacing a cover, nuking the xpgt file and your own list of ePub stuff. Oh and I would also want to see on that modal dialog a button to open the ePub for viewing in it's pre tweaked state - the number of times I have gone to tweak and then forgotten what I was going to do...
However I guess the questions I have are these. Firstly, how would you identify that an ePub requires a particular remedy? Does tweak ePub also gain the ability to search across your library for books that fit certain criteria?
Secondly, tweak ePub is a single book feature. What about performing bulk operations? So you identify somehow a bunch of books that need certain actions applied, you don't really want to go through doing them one by one. It is almost like you would want a convert type of screen leading to the actions running as a background job. Or maybe like metadata download it is just a list of checkboxes of actions to perform...
I am just curious as to what the scope should be and how such future integration should work. I am not in any way averse to splitting out ePub specific functionality into a separate plugin, there are a number of reasons why that makes sense. So quality check would remain focused on metadata, and leave content up to the ePub plugin.
Beyond the existing released jacket features of quality check I haven't coded any of the recent suggestions as yet so doing a separate plugin is no drama for me. Perhaps you may want to write it which would be one less thing for me to support.
I would just like to be sure that however we split things out that the ability to do bulk searches and updates is retained.