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Working Offline
I always forget that Calibre isn't just a program on my computer that organizes books but that it is a database whose purpose is to be used on the net that translates what I do on my computer into a dynamic way of searching for books.
Is there a way of simply working offline? I have rarely if ever even gone online to use it. Because of this, the way I format the database on my computer and the way I use Calibre no doubt causes problems for the online results. It also most likely contributes to the database being so slow to update new fields. So... I was wondering if there was a way of taking my databases offline to work on instead of them being updated in realtime. Is this a thing? Or possible? Or am I just ignoring the point of Calibre and using it for the wrong reasons? The main use for Calibre for me is to store books and keep records of read dates, etc. I use the columns for the most part to copy into the comments sections then those comments end up being in the book jackets (since I have yet to figure out how to change book jackets to include those columns, no matter how simple it seems to be). The majority of my data in my library is always changing so updating Calibre takes a lot of time, just to make my book jackets and Catalogs so informational. |
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Calibre works fine on isolated systems (laptops with no WiFi) .
All you lose is the ability to get update notices and jump to external info (eg download metadata) |
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Metadata Jacket with custom columns values? |
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I would be so happy if I could just pay someone to create a template or file that I could just add and not have to do it myself and mess it up. |
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I have actually done that, turned off the wifi. I wonder if having the content server on or off makes a difference. Also, having multiple libraries attached as well. I could go about removing a lot of libraries and only attach them as needed. I use the majority of them as "holding" libraries that have no need to be on the content server.
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Code:
Calibre2\app\resources\jacket\template.xhtml Calibre2\app\resources\jacket\stylesheet.css Code:
C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\resources\jacket Spoiler:
On the above example, I've added two custom columns: #pages and #read_date. Notice that the # has been replaced by an underscore. For the #read_date column I added a class, corresponding to a CSS rule defined on the stylesheet.css file (see below). Spoiler:
The CSS rule is just an example. You can use whatever you want, or none. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Calibre has this brilliant method for USER OVERIDES. Put those in the config folder in the similar path location |
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So, if I understood it correctly, it should go like this: My calibre configuration folder: Code:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\calibre Code:
\AppData\Roaming\calibre\app\resources\jacket\template.xhtml \AppData\Roaming\calibre\app\resources\jacket\stylesheet.css |
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there is not normally an app folder in the config.
tweaked (original) resources belong in (modified) resources, exactly the same path (relative) A lot of what now has tools (themes), used to be done by hand way back whe Kovid was still in the USA (still going to school?) |
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