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Originally Posted by DaltonST
Attached is the first beta of version 1.0.84 of CalibreSpy.
The context menu is shown in the attached image.
CS uses the "user friendly" format for Calibre Links, since the "hex" format requires that the Calibre GUI be "live", and CalibreSpy is explicitly designed to run without Calibre being "live".
The hex format supports very complex Author Names that occasionally might have an accuracy issue in the "user friendly" HTML URL format, but the alternative is to not support Calibre Links at all in CalibreSpy for the reason cited above.
User Friendly Format Examples:
calibre://search/CalibreLibraryCodes?q=authors:"Holly%20Black"
calibre://search/CalibreLibraryCodes?q="id:86"
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When it was first released, the fact that I could use calibre-spy alongside the calibre GUI was a major feature for me; heaps better than running calibre-server 2.0 and using a browser. When I am adding 'books' to my Intake library, I run calibre-spy instances against my 3 target libraries - been doing it hassle free for years. It facilitates inter-library duplicate resolution much better than burrowing to libraries with a file manager.
Back to the subject at hand - calibre:// links.
I want to copy links from books in library A to paste into books in library B, which means I need to have library B open in the calibre GUI. If I can get the links from calibre-spy I wouldn't have to switch the calibre GUI between library A and library B.
But, I would be reluctant to copy links from calibre-spy if it didn't deliver the same result as doing the same thing from the calibre book-details panel. There are occasions (e.g. one-offs) when I would copy in calibre, switch libraries, and paste in calibre. If it meant calibre-spy sourced links from the calibre GUI, then… for me at least… it would be preferable to disable the "Copy Calibre Links to Clipboard" context menu item if the Calibre GUI wasn't running.
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