[Timboli]

Back at the end of July 2018, I started developing a program called Booklist To HTML. I did it for myself but mostly my wife, to assist with getting the details (Summary) of our huge shared list of ebooks from Amazon.

Basically you drag & dropped either an ebook folder from calibre, or just the OPF file, onto the dropzone in my program. The program then extracted the relevant details, and stored them in a list, which you could then, along with any others already listed, save to a web (Html) page.

The entries were sorted by Author Name, then Book Title. They also included clickable links.

The idea was something to quickly browse the summaries of our collections, and at the time, the PC as viewer for it seemed the ideal way to go.

Below is a screenshot example of a resulting html file. As you can see, it reads from left to right, then down. It also occurs to me, that I could have it just read downward with all the elements, and create EPUB and or MOBI versions of the HTML file.

While not the same as having the summary be part of the ebook, it never-the-less would give a quickly scrollable list of summaries, so perhaps better in a way.

You would also be able to edit the Summary, because often the OPF file contains no description, and so a visit to the ebook page at Amazon (etc), to copy and paste would be needed and supported.