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Originally Posted by killer9999
Ok I did a search and no one seems to have suggested this one yet.... how about a plugin that converts the ebooks into Audio books.. (I.E. MP3's) I think this would be a very good plugin... maybe even integrate this funtion with Itunes and push the Audio books into Itunes to be played?
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killer9999 - In this thread ==>>
Both Ebooks AND Audio books in Calibre Marcs1102 gives instructions for integrating calibre and Balabolka, a Text to Speech program that will 'read' EPUB and other book format files. IIRC Balabolka can also save the audio to various formats (eg MP3) which you could add as a 'book format' file.
In that thread you'll see reference to the Open With plugin, but you should be able to use the recently added built-in Open With feature rather than the OW PI.
Regarding plugin development - optional plugins are almost always developed by someone who wants the functionality for themselves. However, with a bit of lateral thinking it's often relatively easy to 'loosely couple' third party software, such as Balabolka, with Calibre. The Open With and URL linking features (I use file, evernote and onenote links, as well as html links), the Import List PI, and calibre-server are particularly useful in this regard.
Balabolka only runs on Windows. There are probably similar programs for OSX and Linux.
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