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Xenophon · 01-25-2007, 09:08 PM

The GUI now appears to run without problems on my Mac OS X 10.4.8 box (a 1.44GHz G4). I can list the books on the Reader, add books to the library, and so on.

A few questions:

Do you support copying from either the device's memory or the device's card back to the Library?
If yes, can you grab the metadata from the Reader and associate it with the new library entry?
Where is the library actually stored? Does the location differ on various operating systems?

The GUI is slick, and seems to work pretty well. It's also dog-slow on my machine. I'd be happy to produce whatever info might help with that (although I suspect it's more likely to be either an immature QT port or my old hardware that is primarily to blame). And, from the "give-em-an-inch-and-they-want-a-mile" department... When can we edit metadata from .rtf files? And when will you read the metadata that's already there? I've just been through the process of editing the metadata for 500 or so rtf files, and don't look forward to doing it again...

Xenophon

P.S. Thank you VERY much for your efforts so far. It is very cool to see an open source tool like this coming along so quickly!

01-25-2007, 09:08 PM	#118
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	The GUI now appears to run without problems on my Mac OS X 10.4.8 box (a 1.44GHz G4). I can list the books on the Reader, add books to the library, and so on. A few questions: Do you support copying from either the device's memory or the device's card back to the Library? If yes, can you grab the metadata from the Reader and associate it with the new library entry? Where is the library actually stored? Does the location differ on various operating systems? The GUI is slick, and seems to work pretty well. It's also dog-slow on my machine. I'd be happy to produce whatever info might help with that (although I suspect it's more likely to be either an immature QT port or my old hardware that is primarily to blame). And, from the "give-em-an-inch-and-they-want-a-mile" department... When can we edit metadata from .rtf files? And when will you read the metadata that's already there? I've just been through the process of editing the metadata for 500 or so rtf files, and don't look forward to doing it again... Xenophon P.S. Thank you VERY much for your efforts so far. It is very cool to see an open source tool like this coming along so quickly!