TinyOPDS server: your personal home OPDS library

[SeNS]

Hello everybody!

I'd like to introduce TinyOPDS server: a lightweight, simple and effective, open source OPDS server, written on C#.



Project home page: https://tinyopds.codeplex.com
Supported languages: English & Russian
Supported ebook formats: fb2, epub (and these formats in zip archives)

Sorry, there are no English "howto"/wiki/FAQ - I'm very short in time now (and - helpers wanted!). Also, developer's guide and planned features will be published soon.

However TinyOPDS is a really "one click" solution, so I don't expect much questions "how to use it?"

Enjoi!

[DaleDe]

Looks nice but it would not find any of my eBooks. I pointed it to My Digital Editions where ADE can read all of the books and it reported all books to be invalid. Scanning a second time doubled to number of invalid books but of course it just counted all of them again.

Dale

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Looks nice but it would not find any of my eBooks. I pointed it to My Digital Editions where ADE can read all of the books and it reported all books to be invalid. Scanning a second time doubled to number of invalid books but of course it just counted all of them again.

Dale

Probably doesn't work with DRM.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Probably doesn't work with DRM.

Most do not have DRM. It found none. I suspect that the directory name had spaces in it perhaps caused problems but I have no idea why it failed to find a single book. Did it work for you?

Dale

[SeNS]

DaleDe, could you please send me (just share using SkyDrive or DropBox) your books for test? I promise - I'll delete all of 'em after my tests

P.S. Unfortunately, epubs (especially comparing with fb2!) are very informal and messy. Still can't forgive myself for the lack of fb2 promotions in the old days

P.P.S. BTW, I've already tested TinyOPDS on the bunch of epubs (approx. 5K), most converted by Calibre.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by SeNS

DaleDe, could you please send me (just share using SkyDrive or DropBox) your books for test? I promise - I'll delete all of 'em after my tests

P.S. Unfortunately, epubs (especially comparing with fb2!) are very informal and messy. Still can't forgive myself for the lack of fb2 promotions in the old days

P.P.S. BTW, I've already tested TinyOPDS on the bunch of epubs (approx. 5K), most converted by Calibre.

I do not know the difference. I did switch to my fb2 folder and it found 9 out of 10 eBooks. It seems these will stay in the database when I switch folders. But I have checked hundreds of eBooks, many from our own ePub library which you can freely download from our forum. I have yet to find one that works.

I am running Windows 7 professional 32 bit. How do you determine a valid book? In epub every book has a fixed starting place inside the zip file and you just need to follow the links from that fixed file. Always look inside the META-INF folder and read the container.xml file.

How can I look at what is in the database?

Dale

[SeNS]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

How can I look at what is in the database?

Dale, first of all, you may try to turn on logging, and post/send your log-file. Second option: you may install VS (trial or free version), checkout the code and see what's happened by yourself - it's a beauty of open source

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by SeNS

Dale, first of all, you may try to turn on logging, and post/send your log-file. Second option: you may install VS (trial or free version), checkout the code and see what's happened by yourself - it's a beauty of open source

How do I turn on logging?

Dale

[SeNS]

"Miscellaneous" tab, check "Save log to file"

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by SeNS

"Miscellaneous" tab, check "Save log to file"

Thanks, Here is the results:

10:47:05.8 I Control Directory scanner started
10:47:05.9 E BookParser exception Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
10:47:05.9 E BookParser exception Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
10:47:06.0 E BookParser exception Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

And a lot more just like this line. It also seems that everytime I run it there is a new database created. I know have a large number of 0 length database files.

Dale

[JSWolf]

How do I configure the OPDS Server settings?

[SeNS]

Dale, do you have .NET 4.0 installed? Could you try to install/repair, and run TinyOPDS again?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=17851

And what is the OS version?

[SeNS]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

How do I configure the OPDS Server settings?

Which ones? As for OPDS, you can configure just a server name, port and prefix ("virtual directory").



Probably in future I'll add "items per page threshold", that's all. I want to keep TinyOPDS simple as is.

[JSWolf]

I cannot set the URLs.

[SeNS]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I cannot set the URLs.

Pardon me? You don't need to! Just:

• set you ebook folder on the first tab;
• press "Scan" button;
• goto second tab page;
• open your ebook reader, for example, "Moon+ Reader" on your Android handset and add OPDS source, by typing local or external IP shown on that page;
• you're allset: you may start using your personal OPDS server!

OK, I'll write "howto" or some kind of guide soon; may be, someone will help me to correct English grammar.