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Originally Posted by Madmick
Is there a way for me to download your script? I've never taken on scripts; I don't know much about them or what they would be useful for. But if you have a script command that would automatically read the author/title from Calibre's library and copy that info into this "soPDF" program's metadata-editor for every PDF in my Calibre library, then you would save me dozens and dozens of hours of work.
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I've uploaded it here but I don't know how much it will help you. This script was specifically written for my needs. To update the metadata of a pdf and crop it for my kindle/sony eInk device.
The script is not tied to calibre. It uses the file name to update the meta data and expects "Author - Book title". It's a start you can modify the script to your needs. Also the script was written in Perl. If you want to update it to use pdftk modify the script where it has the "system(soPDF" to use pdftk. You'll also have to modify the parameters.
In the past Calibre did not modify the PDF, but later versions it adopted pdftk as part of the build and now updates the meta data of the PDF. So as long as you update the PDF in calibre the pdf file will be updated as well.
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Originally Posted by Madmick
Just to be clear, since I'm a newbie to this stuff, when I say "Calibre Content Server" and you say "Calibre OPDS Web Server",
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Yes that is what I mean.
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Originally Posted by Madmick
The problem is that this doesn't address the root of the problem: that most of my several thousand PDFs' metadata aren't properly organized. Also, as I said earlier, I very much want access to my library when I'm offline or don't have access to WiFi. I live in cattle country. Very few businesses are WiFi-enabled. So unless I only want to read at home, then I need these eBooks stored locally.
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I use to be obsessive about having my whole library on my SONY PRS-505/Kindle but then I came back to reality. How many books can I read at once. I typically have 3-5 books going on at the same time and don't read a different book until I'm done. Some books take a week to finish others take months.
How many books to you read an hour several hundred? Probably not all one really needs on their reader really is just a few books instead of their whole book collection. But that is just me and the conclusion I came to. Managing books and the performance of apps is much better with less books on the device.
Also ezPDF is a great PDF reader, personally I like reading PDF on that app much more than on Montano. RepliGo and ezPDF are also the only apps that have the ability to annotate PDF using the PDF standard.
My opinion is ezPDF is a better reading app, however RepliGO is better at annotating, looking up annotations and reading image based images.
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