Thread: No synopsis in books - paste your own?
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Old 07-10-2016, 05:04 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by marp68 View Post
AHa, so one need to program a plug in first. If it's not to difficult, it could be intresting to make another one for other sources, maybe like the library site, from where I borrow books.
Writing a metadata source plugin isn't that hard. Any of the existing plugins can be used as a starting point. They "simply" read the web page and extract the appropriate bits of data. How hard it is to do this depends on how complex the code is.
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BTW, since the comment field is used for the synopsis text and other texts, like annotations, how does calibre and device know how to distinguish synopsis from annotation in the comment field when transferring to the synopsis field in the device? I updated the device with the synopsis that was stored together with annotation text in the comment field, and it managed to only copy the synopsis text.
It doesn't. Calibre puts the contents of the comments filed into the "dc:description" attribute of the metadata. The device reads this and puts it into the synopsis. Calibre doesn't change the comments when writing them to the book.
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