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nmyshkin · 08-20-2026, 06:50 PM

OK....I managed to track down an old plugin revising the Nook Color driver, which also included code for the Nook Classic.

Although I am not conversant in Python, I have manged to adapt it for my purposes and it works!!!!

I'd like to clean it up a little, mainly by adding an icon for the menu bar at the top of Calibre when the device is connected. The original code included for (I assume) this purpose is:

Code:

class NOOK(USBMS):

	name           = 'Nook Classic Interface (large thumbnails)'
	gui_name       = _('New Nook Classic')
	description    = _('Communicate with the New Nook Classic eBook reader.')
	author         = 'John Schember with enhancements by Joel Ricker and Nmyshkin@XDA'
	icon           = I('devices/nook.jpg')
	version        = (1, 1, 2)
	supported_platforms = ['windows', 'linux', 'osx']

The line that begins with "icon" seems like the right place. At first I thought this might be a reference to the Calibre directory itself (in a much earlier iteration), but trying "app/resources/images/devices" (where the icon actually exists) made no difference. No icon is displayed.

I then looked at the documentation for plugins and it seemed to suggest an icon should be stored locally within the zip. So I added an "image" folder to the zip, containing a local copy of nook.jpg. The path then became "image/nook.jpg"

Alas, that also does not work :-(

Can anyone help?

08-20-2026, 06:50 PM	#5
nmyshkin Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 56675 Join Date: Nov 2021 Device: NST (3), NSTG (3), NG	OK....I managed to track down an old plugin revising the Nook Color driver, which also included code for the Nook Classic. Although I am not conversant in Python, I have manged to adapt it for my purposes and it works!!!! I'd like to clean it up a little, mainly by adding an icon for the menu bar at the top of Calibre when the device is connected. The original code included for (I assume) this purpose is: Code: class NOOK(USBMS): name = 'Nook Classic Interface (large thumbnails)' gui_name = _('New Nook Classic') description = _('Communicate with the New Nook Classic eBook reader.') author = 'John Schember with enhancements by Joel Ricker and Nmyshkin@XDA' icon = I('devices/nook.jpg') version = (1, 1, 2) supported_platforms = ['windows', 'linux', 'osx'] The line that begins with "icon" seems like the right place. At first I thought this might be a reference to the Calibre directory itself (in a much earlier iteration), but trying "app/resources/images/devices" (where the icon actually exists) made no difference. No icon is displayed. I then looked at the documentation for plugins and it seemed to suggest an icon should be stored locally within the zip. So I added an "image" folder to the zip, containing a local copy of nook.jpg. The path then became "image/nook.jpg" Alas, that also does not work :-( Can anyone help?