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Originally Posted by cyana

Calibre2opds is uploading the complete calibre library (2,500 books) and the catalogs at the moment, as all caches were cleared due to the new target folder, and it's busy already since more than 24 hours. The library upload was finished about 10 hours ago, the catalogs are about 15%. 15% in ten hours. I'm off to London on Monday, I only hope the upload is finished till then

Hopefully the options to Minimize Changes will help with keeping down the number of files in the future. I have just implemented a suggestion where if you have both Minimize Changes AND the option to have internal links the counts of books are omitted from the cross-reference link. That means that the book records in the catalog stay unchanged between runs unless you actually change the meta data associated with them. This should make Minimize Changes more efficient. The change will be available in the next build I make available for download (in the next day or so).

That's how it was with 3.1. The problem occurred because you cannot uncheck the 'Do not generate OPDS downloads' box once you decide not to generate opds catalogs; the checkboxes are combined in 3.2 so that when you do not generate OPDS catalogs, the 'Do not generate OPDS downloads' box comes up checked and greyed automatically.

The GUI code has now been fixed so this is now possible. The only combination that is now not possible is to have both an OPDS catalog without downloads AND an HTML with downloads. This is now the restriction enforced by the GUI.

Another bug I came across (actually an old one already from 2.x) - the publication date does not show up in the book page although the box is checked and the date is provided.

I will check this out. Assuming I can reproduce it, it will be trivial to fix. It has been added as Bug Report to the Calibre2opds issue register.

EDIT:Turns out this bug only occurs if you do not also have the Publication Date as Year option set.

And another feature request - a link from the author's name to the author's allbooks-page in every book catalog. At the moment, you have to drill down to the book's page, from where you go back to the author to see all his books.

I like the idea - I will have to see if there is a way of incorporating it that will not break OPDS compatibility for the XML catalogs. I am assuming that the implementation you are thinking of is if in the HTML catalog you have a list of books, then where the top line is a clickable link to the book details, the second line containing authors should be a clickable link to the author? Rather than make the link only to the All-Books for an author I am thinking it would be better going just to the Author details - any thoughts on that? What are you thoughts about multiple authors - should there be separate links for each author. If have raised this a feature request on the Calibre2opds issue register - you can add comments there if you have further ideas.

EDIT:I think the above idea IS achievable enough quite easily. If so then I should extend it also being used in the Book Details pages. It can also be extended for Series/Tags in those pages which would make the explicit Cross-Reference section no longer needed.