[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Tanjamuse]

Yes, my epubs takes much longer to load now too. I don't know if it's building something internally or?

[JimmXinu]

I've only investigated it a little, but yes, it's a known fact that the new viewer takes several seconds to open the first time it opens a file.

Subsequent opens of the same file are quicker, even after restarting Calibre. That suggests that it has cached something somewhere, but I haven't found where.

Unfortunately for those of us who regularly update our ebooks (as opposed to those whose ebooks are generally static) changes to the ebook file cause the slow-start again.

Calibre's ebook viewer has been completely rewritten due to Calibre needing to switch to a newer HTML render engine. It's been out for less than a week, so there are bound to be issues. Hopefully this will improved in future.

[chrnno]

Ah I see, glad to know it isn't anything on my side thank you.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Subsequent opens of the same file are quicker, even after restarting Calibre. That suggests that it has cached something somewhere, but I haven't found where.

Yes there is a cache maintained. I doubt initial open speed is ever going to be on par with the old reader, its kind of a fundamental trade-off in the design. You get much faster re-opens for a slower initial open.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes there is a cache maintained. I doubt initial open speed is ever going to be on par with the old reader, its kind of a fundamental trade-off in the design. You get much faster re-opens for a slower initial open.

One thought that comes to mind: Could that caching step be called ahead of time? By plugins, or as part of db.add_format_with_hooks()?

I wouldn't consider it a priority right now, though.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

One thought that comes to mind: Could that caching step be called ahead of time? By plugins, or as part of db.add_format_with_hooks()?

I wouldn't consider it a priority right now, though.

Yeah it should be possible to have programmitc cache generation or more longer term, make a new ebook format specifically for calibre that will not need pre-processing in the viewer.

[JimmXinu]

FYI, SpaceBattles sez:

In 4 hours, 13 minutes, 30 seconds at Oct 11, 2019 9:00 PM SpaceBattles forums will be upgrading to using XenForo 2. This will require 8 to 12 hours downtime, and will be unavailable for most of the outage window.

I already have code for XenForo 2 that worked on the SB test site and has been in used on SV for a while now. So I'll upload a new test version with that tomorrow, assuming the SB site upgrade goes as planned.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2019-10-12
- Update translations.
- Add defaults.ini CSS for ficbook.net to preserve line breaks.
- Changes for adapter_forumsspacebattlescom to use base_xenforo2forum.

I was waiting on the SB update, so this will probably be released in next few days. FYI.

[Chrystalline]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

it's a known fact that the new viewer takes several seconds to open the first time it opens a file.

Honestly, I didn't love the old epub viewer, either. This is why I always download fanfic in HTML (thank you for keeping that an option), so I can read in my browser, which lets me smooth-scroll with arrow keys or mouse wheel without regard for end of chapter (my biggest issue, since jumping to the start of a new chapter throws me out of the story and I have to back up and find my place again), full-screen or shrink window, change zoom with ctrl + or ctrl -, page up or page down, find things with ctrl F, and use hyperlinks directly if I want.

I have not found an epub viewer I really love anywhere. EBookDroid on my phone was moderately good until they changed the fonts to infinitesimal, though it was always weird that it insists on displaying italics as yellow highlighter. I do wish Calibre would let me convert my other epub books to singlepage HTML in an easy click, rather than having to explode each book and manually compile the HTML. Mind, being able to explode the book at all is awesome.

I try not to fuss too much: it's free software and I'm very grateful for what it does, but if I could have my 'druthers, y'know ^

[Mandabar]

Just reporting in, the test version worked on at least one story I downloaded new from SB.

[JimmXinu]

New Version Released

Version 3.12.0 - 14 Oct 2019
- Update Translations
- Add defaults.ini CSS for ficbook.net to preserve line breaks.
- Changes for adapter_forumsspacebattlescom to use base_xenforo2forum.
- Correct AO3 author parsing for high-byte characters.
- Additional warnings about imaptags added to manually added story URLs.
- Fix for adapter_trekfanfictionnet URL change. Closes #433.
- Add 'Restricted to Registered Users'(restricted) metadata to AO3.
- Fix for unicode chars in url params, fixes 427
- Add feature to automatically add optional tags for stories downloaded from email URLs.
- New Russian Site added: www.swi.org.ru - Thanks gunmetal313
- Fix for wordcount in adapter_fanfiktionde when max_zalgo:1

[catlover1019]

Hey, Jim, I noticed something kinda odd. Wattpad seems to be listed both as supported and "not likely to be supported" in the GitHub page on supported sites: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...Supportedsites

So, which is it?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by catlover1019

Hey, Jim, I noticed something kinda odd. Wattpad seems to be listed both as supported and "not likely to be supported" in the GitHub page on supported sites: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...Supportedsites

So, which is it?

It is supported now. Another developer contributed support for it a few years after that comment was put in the wiki. I've updated it now.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2019-10-15
- Treat spacebattles /post/ URLs in emails the same as sufficientvelocity to avoid extra URLs in thread notifications.

[MCBastos]

I have not found an epub viewer I really love anywhere. EBookDroid on my phone was moderately good until they changed the fonts to infinitesimal, though it was always weird that it insists on displaying italics as yellow highlighter. I do wish Calibre would let me convert my other epub books to singlepage HTML in an easy click, rather than having to explode each book and manually compile the HTML. Mind, being able to explode the book at all is awesome.

For reading on the computer, I tend to prefer HTML too. But on my Android phone, I have used Aldiko for years and I'm mostly happy with it. I even bough the Pro version back when it was a perpetual license. Although I can't really recommend it anymore due to the change in monetization policy: the new owners now only sell "subscriptions" for the Pro features. That's why I'm unwilling to upgrade to the new version, too, since I would lose those Pro features I paid for... but back when I was evaluating epub readers, I noticed a couple that were almost as good as Aldiko. Anybody knows what happened to Mantano Reader, for instance? One of these days I'll have to do a new evaluation, before my old, unmaintained version of Aldiko Pro becomes untenable....

Anyway, for converting epub into HTML... have you tried converting to HTMLZ first, and then just unzipping it? HTMLZ is pretty much what you want, only packed in a zip file with a changed extension.