As I wait for the CSV option update to calibredb I had a thought
. Rather than me running an external script using the new features in calibredb would it be out of line for me to ask for a feature request for an option for Calibre to generate an atom feed XML file for its catalog? This would mean any iPhone/Touch Stanza user could access their Calibre ebook collection on their own device by having the Calibre library on a web server along with this generated XML atom feed.
Stanza's catalog atom feed format is pretty straight forward. Here's an example I whipped up that works on my iTouch:
PHP Code:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<title>Calibre Generated Stanza Catalog</title>
<id>tag:mywebserver,2008-10-12:/ebooks/stanza.xml</id>
<updated>2008-10-12T00:44:20+00:00</updated>
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mywebserver/ebooks/stanza.xml"/>
<author>
<name>Crazy</name>
<uri>http://mywebserver</uri>
<email>librarian@mydomain.com</email>
</author>
<entry>
<title>20000 Leagues Under The Sea</title>
<content type="xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Published: 1870 Subject: Novels Language: en</div>
</content>
<id>tag:mywebserver,2008-10-12:/ebooks/Jules%20Verne/20000%20Leagues%20Under%20the%20Sea%20(2)/20000%20Leagues%20Under%20the%20Sea%20-%20Jules%20Verne.epub</id>
<author>
<name>Verne, Jules</name>
</author>
<updated>2008-10-12T00:44:20+00:00</updated>
<link type="application/epub+zip" href="http://mywebserver/ebooks/Jules%20Verne/20000%20Leagues%20Under%20the%20Sea%20(2)/20000%20Leagues%20Under%20the%20Sea%20-%20Jules%20Verne.epub"/>
<link rel="x-stanza-cover-image-thumbnail" type="image/jpg" href="http://mywebserver/ebooks/Jules%20Verne/20000%20Leagues%20Under%20the%20Sea%20(2)/cover.jpg"/>
<link rel="x-stanza-cover-image" type="image/jpg" href="http://mywebserver/ebooks/Jules%20Verne/20000%20Leagues%20Under%20the%20Sea%20(2)/cover.jpg"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Time Machine</title>
<content type="xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Published: 1895 Subject: Novels Language: en</div>
</content>
<id>tag:mywebserver,2008-10-12:/ebooks/H%20G%20Wells/The%20Time%20Machine%20(8)/The%20Time%20Machine%20-%20H%20G%20Wells.epub</id>
<author>
<name>Wells, H G</name>
</author>
<updated>2008-10-12T00:55:20+00:00</updated>
<link type="application/epub+zip" href="http://mywebserver/ebooks/H%20G%20Wells/The%20Time%20Machine%20(8)/The%20Time%20Machine%20-%20H%20G%20Wells.epub"/>
<link rel="x-stanza-cover-image-thumbnail" type="image/jpg" href="http://mywebserver/ebooks/H%20G%20Wells/The%20Time%20Machine%20(8)/cover.jpg"/>
<link rel="x-stanza-cover-image" type="image/jpg" href="http://mywebserver/ebooks/H%20G%20Wells/The%20Time%20Machine%20(8)/cover.jpg"/>
</entry>
</feed>
The majority of the info in this xml file would be available to Calibre as it sits except for the web server base URL and the catalog owner's name and email address. The only other thing would be to replace the spaces in the url's with %20's. I think more info can be provided by an entry's content->div but I haven't played with it yet. Let me know what you think about supporting iphone/Touch's in Calibre via this atom feed route and if you agree I'll add a feature request. Otherwise I'll do this as I originally planned, in an external script via the updated calibredb.
It ends up looking like the attached ipod Touch screenshot.
Crazy
