Adding Books Sequence Editor

sdfg · 10-19-2018, 05:33 PM

Does anyone know of a way to create a sequence of events that happen when a book is added? Currently, we only have 'automatic conversion', which, whilst useful, doesn't seem to be extendable.

I really dislike massive page breaks in my ebooks (I use a scrolling reader), so I want to remove all page breaks. Page breaks show up in two ways - either in the html itself (which is trivial to excise, I've already got that set up with css overrides), or due to multiple internal html (or equivalent) pages in the ebook itself. Getting rid of the second type of page break is relatively easy (convert to HTMLZ, convert to EPUB, in my case). So my current order is:

Add ebook
(Automated conversion to HTMLZ)
Delete original format (otherwise conversion messes up)
Convert to EPUB

Is there anyway to automate that sequence?

kovidgoyal · 10-19-2018, 11:36 PM

No I'm afrid calibre does not have a general mcro facility. But yo ucan use the command line tools to write your own scripts to do all that, assuming you are comfortable with scripting.

10-19-2018, 05:33 PM	#1
sdfg Member Posts: 14 Karma: 7398 Join Date: Feb 2015 Device: none	Adding Books Sequence Editor Does anyone know of a way to create a sequence of events that happen when a book is added? Currently, we only have 'automatic conversion', which, whilst useful, doesn't seem to be extendable. I really dislike massive page breaks in my ebooks (I use a scrolling reader), so I want to remove all page breaks. Page breaks show up in two ways - either in the html itself (which is trivial to excise, I've already got that set up with css overrides), or due to multiple internal html (or equivalent) pages in the ebook itself. Getting rid of the second type of page break is relatively easy (convert to HTMLZ, convert to EPUB, in my case). So my current order is: Add ebook (Automated conversion to HTMLZ) Delete original format (otherwise conversion messes up) Convert to EPUB Is there anyway to automate that sequence?

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10-19-2018, 11:36 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,251 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No I'm afrid calibre does not have a general mcro facility. But yo ucan use the command line tools to write your own scripts to do all that, assuming you are comfortable with scripting.

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