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kiwidude · 01-13-2012, 10:46 AM

Yeah I suspected the catalog feature would apply its own sorting, oh well, worth a punt.

Like I said, it is on the todo list to look at one day, as I dont use the catalog feature myself I know very little about it. Not that I expect there to be a direct code reuse, but its the same sort of principle - given a bunch of books from the calibre database, produce an html file output.

Where it all starts getting messy is with timings and output formats etc. For instance...

At what point does the plugin produce this special reading list book?
Is it manually triggered, or should it only happen when the list is synced?
There are all sorts of potential implications concerning job chaining etc - generating the list, converting it to desired format, putting it on the device.
Does this special reading list book have to be a book in your library to be sent (I would presume so) and if so how is it named/managed, what if multiple lists, what if user manually deletes etc.
Perhaps the user should be forced to specify the output format as part of configuring a list, like I assume they may do with a catalog.
What happens if you have set your list to clear when synced - is that an incompatible combination for the option of generating a special ordered book
What information does this book need to contain - sufficient just to put text of title/author/series?

That's just off the top of my head, undoubtedly there are many more things that will come out of the woodwork. If anyone has thoughts they are welcome, otherwise it is going to stay on the todo list for a while longer.

One of those features I wouldn't use myself hence lacking motivation really. I found I tend to be flexible when it comes to deciding what to read next - I stick a subset of just several hundred books on my Kindle at a time, topping it up every now and then with new ones that sound interesting as I remove the read ones. But deciding what I will actually read next for me is on a whim - if the first book of a series grabs me then I'll probably read more from it sequentially ("Hunger Games" has me turning pages frantically at the moment). OTOH prior to that I read "Master & Commander" by Patrick O'Brian which I found a far less riveting read, so the allegedly better follow-up books are way down my mental priority list now. I try not to OD on any one genre by randomly rotating through based on what I feel like, and since I average reading around 20 books a month its not essential I force an order upon myself.

But that's just my personal style, and I completely respect the desire of others to have a visual reminder to themselves of particular books they are looking forward to reading, it is all part of the fun...

01-13-2012, 10:46 AM	#336
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,733 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Yeah I suspected the catalog feature would apply its own sorting, oh well, worth a punt. Like I said, it is on the todo list to look at one day, as I dont use the catalog feature myself I know very little about it. Not that I expect there to be a direct code reuse, but its the same sort of principle - given a bunch of books from the calibre database, produce an html file output. Where it all starts getting messy is with timings and output formats etc. For instance... At what point does the plugin produce this special reading list book? Is it manually triggered, or should it only happen when the list is synced? There are all sorts of potential implications concerning job chaining etc - generating the list, converting it to desired format, putting it on the device. Does this special reading list book have to be a book in your library to be sent (I would presume so) and if so how is it named/managed, what if multiple lists, what if user manually deletes etc. Perhaps the user should be forced to specify the output format as part of configuring a list, like I assume they may do with a catalog. What happens if you have set your list to clear when synced - is that an incompatible combination for the option of generating a special ordered book What information does this book need to contain - sufficient just to put text of title/author/series? That's just off the top of my head, undoubtedly there are many more things that will come out of the woodwork. If anyone has thoughts they are welcome, otherwise it is going to stay on the todo list for a while longer. One of those features I wouldn't use myself hence lacking motivation really. I found I tend to be flexible when it comes to deciding what to read next - I stick a subset of just several hundred books on my Kindle at a time, topping it up every now and then with new ones that sound interesting as I remove the read ones. But deciding what I will actually read next for me is on a whim - if the first book of a series grabs me then I'll probably read more from it sequentially ("Hunger Games" has me turning pages frantically at the moment). OTOH prior to that I read "Master & Commander" by Patrick O'Brian which I found a far less riveting read, so the allegedly better follow-up books are way down my mental priority list now. I try not to OD on any one genre by randomly rotating through based on what I feel like, and since I average reading around 20 books a month its not essential I force an order upon myself. But that's just my personal style, and I completely respect the desire of others to have a visual reminder to themselves of particular books they are looking forward to reading, it is all part of the fun...