So sorry for the delay! I've been very engrossed in Pokemon Go and haven't done much else
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I still have the doubt if there is some kind of problem with mixing Spanish Books with metadata or options in English.
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Glad you were able to get it somewhat working in the end at least. I'm not really sure what could be going on with it, it must be something to do with the Spanish/English stuff as you mentioned.
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5.- Even though what I mentioned in Number 4 was a success, I came with two problems. The Spanish accent (´) in names (Ex: "Capitán") was showed with a small question mark ("Capit?n") so no match appeared about that Book Character. So I erased all accents ("Capitan" instedad of "Capitán") and tried. To my surprise it seems that X-Ray Builder doesnt consider accents because even if it was "Capitan" instead of "Capitán", X-Ray showed the name correctly and also the mentions.
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There are always been various issues with accented character support, though I thought most of that was resolved. In any case, it doesn't look like the book actually has 'Capitán' with the accent, in the copy you sent me anyway! So that's probably why it worked without it. It was un-accented in the alias file also.
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6.- The Aliases were another problem but I fear it has no solution....From my point of view it isnt a great problem and I prefer mixed mentions that I can discard after reading, instead of less of them.
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Yeah, that's a downside to the whole automatic process. It's up to you whether you'd prefer some more false matches or more accurate information. You can really fancy with the aliases using regular expressions and positive/negative lookahead/lookbehinds to make them match perfectly but that's a lot of extra effort without much gain.
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7.- The Third Tab in X-Ray, the one that in my Kindle is called "Términos" (maybe "Terms" in English) sometimes shows "There was an error". In my last test it only appeared "there is no one found" in the actual page and in the Book. What is the purpose of this Tab? Can be edited?
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The 'Terms' section is to what was previously 'glossary terms' from Shelfari. Basically, anything that isn't a character but could use defining. Sometimes places are there with a description, sometimes words that are made up specifically for the book, etc.
You can add any terms in the text file as well, but with 'Topic' as the first line instead of 'Character'!
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8.- Analysing a book in English I bought from Amazon.com I noticed in X-Ray an additional Tab called "Images" in which screenshots of the Book were shown. I suppose this isnt implemented in X-Ray Builder but I believe is not a bad option with books (specially fantasy ones) that shows a Map in the first pages, as a way to quicky access to that Map.
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Yeah, images are a feature I never had much luck implementing but haven't tried in a while. It's on my list of things to add!
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9.- Is there a way to Edit Author Biography so as to avoid the Error shown in X-Ray Builder when is working?
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There's an option to save the author's biography to a file (in settings) that you can then edit and it will load it. Not sure how well that works if the file doesn't exist to begin with, though. If it doesn't work, you can save a file called "ASIN.bio" in the ext folder, where ASIN is the author's ASIN (should show up in the log).
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10.- When I started the book (the very first time), it showed the Goodread info box about the Book and its configuration. It seems that even using a text file for characters in X-Ray Builder (and no marking the Goodread option) it uses info from Goodreads. It seems I wrongly assumed that the text file bypasses Goodreads.
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Yeah the text file is only for the X-Ray process, it still uses Goodreads/Amazon for the other extras. I'm hoping that we can re-arrange the interface to make that a bit clearer.
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Well, I am going to work with another book, to see if it has similar results. I will mix Spanish Book with English metadata to see if X-Ray doesnt work again, and then I will use Spanish Metadata. I am also going to create a text file after searching for the Characters in the Web.
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Good luck! I hope all is well.