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BetterRed · 01-26-2015, 12:20 AM

@eschwartz - Ah, so I changed the threat name from Calibre Server Queries to ...Questions

Initiating a search from within EN would probably require me to delve into the quagmire of the EN API, I'm not prepared to do that just to get a bit better look from the calibre server. And I did say "...a presentation style more like Mobile".

Ideally I would like something exactly like the calibre desktop book list, covers are largely irrelevant to me, I don't imagine the USSC will be putting covers on its opinions any time soon

I think the urls are based on database row numbers, I am very careful about creating new authors, publishers etc. That all happens before the books get into the library I'd be accessing via calibre-server.

My original plan is done. I wanted to replace the Author and Book Info folder links I had in Author Link and Book notes with links to EN Author and Book Notes. I now have ~15% of the Author and Book info folders I had. The opportunity exists to get rid of the ~15%, but I'm being cautious about attaching large files, there are various limits to EN Free and they're a bit on the lean side.

But all that was surprisingly easy to do. So I decided to see if I could get some backlinking from EN to calibre happening, All I want is lists of books - equivalent of Alt/A, Alt/P etc. I dived down the 'convert csv catalogues into html tables' rabbit hole, but getting them into a form where I could shoehorn them into an EN note proved to be both problematic and cumbersome.

So I changed tack to the calibre server idea. I have a command line utility (xxmklink) to create the shortcut files so I think I can create the .lnk files en-masse - the tricky bit will be to attach them to the right entity notes, but I have an inkling of how I might do that.

My database is pretty stable entity wise. And if it doesn't work out then no harm done, as I'm not throwing any data away.

BR

01-26-2015, 12:20 AM	#9
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,772 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@eschwartz - Ah, so I changed the threat name from Calibre Server Queries to ...Questions Initiating a search from within EN would probably require me to delve into the quagmire of the EN API, I'm not prepared to do that just to get a bit better look from the calibre server. And I did say "...a presentation style more like Mobile". Ideally I would like something exactly like the calibre desktop book list, covers are largely irrelevant to me, I don't imagine the USSC will be putting covers on its opinions any time soon I think the urls are based on database row numbers, I am very careful about creating new authors, publishers etc. That all happens before the books get into the library I'd be accessing via calibre-server. My original plan is done. I wanted to replace the Author and Book Info folder links I had in Author Link and Book notes with links to EN Author and Book Notes. I now have ~15% of the Author and Book info folders I had. The opportunity exists to get rid of the ~15%, but I'm being cautious about attaching large files, there are various limits to EN Free and they're a bit on the lean side. But all that was surprisingly easy to do. So I decided to see if I could get some backlinking from EN to calibre happening, All I want is lists of books - equivalent of Alt/A, Alt/P etc. I dived down the 'convert csv catalogues into html tables' rabbit hole, but getting them into a form where I could shoehorn them into an EN note proved to be both problematic and cumbersome. So I changed tack to the calibre server idea. I have a command line utility (xxmklink) to create the shortcut files so I think I can create the .lnk files en-masse - the tricky bit will be to attach them to the right entity notes, but I have an inkling of how I might do that. My database is pretty stable entity wise. And if it doesn't work out then no harm done, as I'm not throwing any data away. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 01-26-2015 at 12:31 AM.