Lengthy list of regexes to "clean up" language in books.
Github:
https://github.com/jdanders/calibre-...nguage-cleaner
Latest release:
https://github.com/jdanders/calibre-...eleases/latest
I wrote this plugin because I don't like reading vulgar language, but I like reading books with vulgar language in it
. Personally I find books much more enjoyable after being processed with this script. Obviously it is a personal set of filters, but I've done my best to make the changes sound as natural as possible, and after using it for years, I think it's pretty good.
If you'd like to customize it to meet your preferences, you just need to go through the lines of cleaner.py and add or remove filters as needed. You'll probably need a pretty good mastery of regular expressions to write new ones unless there is a similar one existing already that you can tweak. To remove, just delete the lines that you don't want.
LIMITATIONS
I am no expert at calibre, and I could not drum up much help on the support forums, so the integration is pretty weak. It only works on books that are being converted from epub, and only works during the conversion process.
To install:
create a zip file with the three files called Language_Cleaner.zip
- cleaner.py
- __init__.py
- plugin-import-name-language_clean_plugin.txt
This command may help in Linux:
Code:
zip Language_Cleaner cleaner.py __init__.py plugin-import-name-language_clean_plugin.txt
In calibre choose Preference -> Plugins -> Load plugin from file
Choose the zip you just created, and the plugin should show up under "File type plugins"
To use:
- Choose the book you'd like and make sure you have an epub format (so convert to epub if you don't already have that format)
- Now do "Convert book" and choose to convert from Epub to Epub (or whatever destination format you want)
- Wait until longer than usual job completes, due the very inefficient way this plugin works
Secret debug tip: If there is a "c:/Scratch/calibre" folder on your Winodws machine (change logdir in __init__.py if you want), the plugin will write before and after versions of the book as plain text files. Sometimes it does two copies and only one has useful changes. If you'd like to see how it was changed, compare the two files. I use WinMerge and that works well.
By the way, there is a strong layer of irony here -- if vulgar language offends you, you'll probably want to avoid actually looking in the cleaner.py file, as it is chock full of it
Here's a zip attachment, but it's really better to just go to the github page.