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Originally Posted by ldolse
I've been using this with more friends/family, and found a new issue/ some requests.
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Glad it is working (mostly) for you.
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The issue is that the next/previous buttons don't work properly in any of the 'Title' views if you change the sort to anything other than the default alphabetical.
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Fixed in release 0.2.5.
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Relating to that, I'd like to be able to control the default sort, or to have the default changed to Date -> Descending so that people can see the most recent books automatically.
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Option added in release 0.2.5. See the end of config_default.php
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I was also thinking about the PHP server in relation to the 'get books' feature - it would be nice to have a store plugin that could be configured for a specific PHP server. Part of the benefit is convenience, but because the PHP server is dealing with a synchronized Calibre library, this also offers the opportunity to automatically transfer the correct metadata to the other party's Calibre, since the store plugin could also grab the metadata.opf file and cover.jpg that is synchronized along with the book.
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I am not convinced that a store plugin is the best way to go with this. These plugins don't get metadata. There is a facility to automatically download a book, that that just downloads the book.
On the other hand, if you want books from your library mixed in with books that you can get from other sources, then it makes sense. You should be able to operate like most of the other plugins, using the site's search function and scraping the details. It might be useful for me to add some identifiers to the tags to make it easier to find the metadata that get-books search wants.
Another option that might do the job is to add links on a books page to "download for calibre" or some such. This link would create a zip containing the requested formats (or perhaps one format), the OPF, and the cover. On the calibre side, either the user would unpack these files into a directory and load it (works out of the box), or you write a plugin that can add such a zip file, breaking out the components.