Thanks for book catalog 0.6.35 update!

[poshm]

Thanks for this fantastic update where I can now create a catalog of books with the press of a button and it stores it as an .epub file in my library ready to place on my reader!

Just what I wanted to do The output shows all the comments I've saved on each book so now I can hunt through the .epub when I'm wondering what to read next.

For anyone who doesn't know, just open up Calibre and hit the down arrow next to the Convert E-Books button - select create catalog option.

[Sydney's Mom]

I can't get it to work. I tried CVS, and immediately got an error message. I tried epub, and it ran for 4 minutes, but gave me this error message:

Generate catalog
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI:run
path_to_output: c:\users\debra\appdata\local\temp\calibre_0.6.35_d z9rlg_catalog_out.epub
Output format: epub
opts:
basename: Catalog
catalog_title: My Books
creator: Calibre
dbs_fname: CatalogSnapshot.dat
descriptionClip: 250
exclude_genre: \[[\w ]*\]
exclude_tags: ~
fmt: epub
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note_tag: *
output_profile: kindle
plugin_path: <class 'calibre.library.catalog.EPUB_MOBI'>
read_tag: +
search_text: None
sort_by: None
verbose: True
0% fetchBooksByTitle()
7% fetchBooksByAuthor()
15% generateHTMLDescriptions()
23% generateHTMLByTitle()
30% generateHTMLByAuthor()
38% generateHTMLByTags()
46% generateThumbnails()


This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Can anyone help? Thanks, Debra

[kovidgoyal]

There's a bug with the EPUB output that will cause problems with large collections. Will be fixed in next release. What's the error with the CSV output?

[Sydney's Mom]

Thank you for responding, Kovid. The first time, it said it was missing a certain file. This time, it ran in only 6 seconds. I am now going to put it on my kindle.

[Sydney's Mom]

Oops, I guess not. No suitable format to convert to mobi

[kovidgoyal]

MOBI output for the catalog will be in the next release as well.

[Ortep]

Thanks for the catalog. I'm waiting for the next release with Mobi

[alecE]

Wheee! What a nifty feature - love it!! (fyi, took ~11 minutes to produce a catalogue for 298 books).

Thank you Kovid :-))

[DoctorOhh]

Looking forward to the update for the epub output. My attempt at an 1100 book catalog ended in a memory error after it maxed out the 1.5 gig of free memory and took up 2.5g of paging memory.

If your curious the full output is included below.

Spoiler:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog

Generate catalog
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI:run
path_to_output: c:\docume~1\home\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.6.35_bmak 7y_catalog_out.epub
Output format: epub
opts:
basename: Catalog
catalog_title: My Books
creator: Calibre
dbs_fname: CatalogSnapshot.dat
descriptionClip: 250
exclude_genre: \[[\w ]*\]
exclude_tags: ~
fmt: epub
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note_tag: *
output_profile: sony
plugin_path: <class 'calibre.library.catalog.EPUB_MOBI'>
read_tag: +
search_text: None
sort_by: None
verbose: True
0% fetchBooksByTitle()
7% fetchBooksByAuthor()
15% generateHTMLDescriptions()
23% generateHTMLByTitle()
30% generateHTMLByAuthor()
38% generateHTMLByTags()
46% generateThumbnails()
no cover available for Calibre Quick Start Guide, will use default
generating new thumbnail_default.jpg
no cover available for The Constitution of the United States, 1787, will use default
updating thumbnail_default for The Constitution of the United States, 1787
no cover available for The Declaration of Independence, will use default
updating thumbnail_default for The Declaration of Independence
no cover available for Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, will use default
updating thumbnail_default for Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
no cover available for Linconln's Gettysburg Address, will use default
updating thumbnail_default for Linconln's Gettysburg Address
53% generateOPF()
61% generateNCXHeader()
69% generateNCXDescription()
76% generateNCXByTitle()
84% generateNCXByAuthor()
92% generateNCXByTags()
100% writeNCX()
InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running
on c:\docume~1\home\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.6.35_4u81 lp_epub_mobi_catalog\Catalog.opf
Parsing all content...
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'content/ByAlphaTitle.html' as HTML
Failed to parse content in content/ByAlphaTitle.html
Python function terminated unexpectedly
(Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 59, in gui_catalog
File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 2571, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 745, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\html\input.py", line 291, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 877, in create_oebbook
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 72, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 588, in _all_from_opf
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 243, in _manifest_from_opf
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 176, in _manifest_add_missing
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.py", line 1016, in fget
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.py", line 762, in _parse_xml
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\chardet\__init__.py", line 102, in xml_to_unicode
File "encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
MemoryError

[Laurentiu]

This appears exactly when I was wondering, how come there was no export to csv function in Calibre.

Thanks, Kovid. Calibre rocks!

[kovidgoyal]

Thanks are due to GRiker who wrote all the code, I just integrated it into calibre

The next release will fix the memory leak and have MOBI output as well.

[alecE]

Just a passing thought, it might be useful to create an index entry under the Series name when a title belongs to a series? (eg Discworld, Barsoom, etc)