[GUI Plugin] BookFusion Cloud Sync

[skillachie]

Version 0.3.3


* Faster syncing
* Ignore unsupported formats
*Improvements to syncing tags

[evans]

I've been playing with the Calibre extension. I have a couple of pseudo-bugs and one feature request that I haven't seen mentioned in the thread.

Instead of an entire separate BookFusion Sync window staying open, once the sync has started move to the Jobs area.

After a sync has completed, the dialog still displays Configure and Start. A more logical display would be to change Start to Done since the operation completed.

It would be really helpful if there was a way to indicate which books were synced to BookFusion. That could be either by adding a tag, or preferably supporting a custom metadata field that would update. See the Reading List and GoodReads plugins for examples. (I apologize if this is a little vague without screen shots, but I don't have access to Calibre at the moment.)

[evans]

If a book has multiple formats in Calibre, which are synced to BookFusion?

[milady133]

Originally Posted by evans

It would be really helpful if there was a way to indicate which books were synced to BookFusion. That could be either by adding a tag, or preferably supporting a custom metadata field that would update. See the Reading List and GoodReads plugins for examples. (I apologize if this is a little vague without screen shots, but I don't have access to Calibre at the moment.)

I don't know how those plugins work in this regard (and I do have the Sync to Goodreads) but I have noticed that a book uploaded to BookFusion with the Calibre plugin gets a new ID in its metadata (where you usually put the ISBN out Amazon's ASIN) with BookFusion tag, the same happens with Goodreads. It would be possible to perform a search in Calibre for books with that kind of ID.
What I don't think is that the BookFusion ID would be deleted if you delete the ebook there, or the ID won't be informed if you upload the book from outside Calibre.

[BetterRed]

FWIW - the Tag browser has an 'identifiers' category, you can do a search from there or enter something like identifiers:"=amazon:" in the search bar.

[vikarti]

Originally Posted by milady133

I don't know how those plugins work in this regard (and I do have the Sync to Goodreads) but I have noticed that a book uploaded to BookFusion with the Calibre plugin gets a new ID in its metadata (where you usually put the ISBN out Amazon's ASIN) with BookFusion tag, the same happens with Goodreads. It would be possible to perform a search in Calibre for books with that kind of ID.
What I don't think is that the BookFusion ID would be deleted if you delete the ebook there, or the ID won't be informed if you upload the book from outside Calibre.

Bookfusion ID is not deleted when book is deleted in Bookfusion.

It is possible to have custom column which will show is book in Bookfusion or not: use column from other columns and template program: test(select(field('identifiers'),'bookfusion'),'Ye s ','')

If you just need to show BookfusionID in column - use template {identifiers:select(bookfusion)}

As far as I understood, Bookfusion ID will not be added to Calibre if you upload book outside of Calibre EXCEPT when book will identified as arleady loaded

[vikarti]

Originally Posted by evans

If a book has multiple formats in Calibre, which are synced to BookFusion?

As far as I understood how this works based on my experience with plugin:
if EPUB or MOBI is present - it's being used
if they are not present but 'AZW', 'AZW3', 'AZW4', 'CBZ', 'CBR', 'CBC', 'CHM', 'DJVU', 'DOCX', 'EPUB', 'FB2', 'FBZ', 'HTML', 'HTMLZ', 'LIT', 'LRF', 'MOBI', 'ODT', 'PDF', 'PRC', 'PDB', 'PML', 'RB', 'RTF', 'SNB', 'TCR', 'TXT', 'TXTZ' are present - they are being used. Backend will convert file to readable by clients.

class BookFormat:
    SUPPORTED_FMTS = [
        'AZW', 'AZW3', 'AZW4', 'CBZ', 'CBR', 'CBC', 'CHM', 'DJVU', 'DOCX', 'EPUB', 'FB2', 'FBZ', 'HTML', 'HTMLZ',
        'LIT', 'LRF', 'MOBI', 'ODT', 'PDF', 'PRC', 'PDB', 'PML', 'RB', 'RTF', 'SNB', 'TCR', 'TXT', 'TXTZ'
    ]
    PREFERRED_FMTS = ['EPUB', 'MOBI']

    def __init__(self, db, book_id):
        self.file_path = None
        self.fmt = None

        fmts = db.formats(book_id)
        if len(fmts) > 0:
            fmt = fmts[0]
            for preferred_fmt in self.PREFERRED_FMTS:
                if preferred_fmt in fmts:
                    fmt = preferred_fmt
                    break

            if fmt in self.SUPPORTED_FMTS:
                self.fmt = fmt
                self.file_path = db.format_abspath(book_id, fmt)

[skillachie]

Version 0.4.1

*Syncs now run in parallel
*Update metadata only when needed
*Continue syncing after network failure instead of restarting

[BlankEyes]

What about non DRM books obtained from trackers etc. Do BookFushion patrol such a thing? Or do they look for it at all?

[astrodad]

Maybe I'm confused as how this is supposed to work. I synced a book from my Linux system using the Calibre plugin, then installed Calibre on my Mac, but when I started sync from my Mac nothing was downloaded locally. I assumed I could sync the books in Calibre across my Mac and Linux.

[milady133]

This plugin is not for synching Calibre books, is for uploading Calibre books to BookFusion cloud, but you have to connect to BookFusion to download the book to your device using their interface once you have the book in their cloud. So in your Mac, you'll have to connect to BookFusion site using Safari, Chrome or whatever you prefer, connect to your account, download the book and import it to Calibre.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by BlankEyes

What about non DRM books obtained from trackers etc. Do BookFushion patrol such a thing? Or do they look for it at all?

Users obtain a variety of non DRM free eBooks from various sources. eBooks uploaded to your private library, are meant for your private library. As a result BookFusion does not monitor user uploads or their private libraries.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by astrodad

Maybe I'm confused as how this is supposed to work. I synced a book from my Linux system using the Calibre plugin, then installed Calibre on my Mac, but when I started sync from my Mac nothing was downloaded locally. I assumed I could sync the books in Calibre across my Mac and Linux.

The plugin is meant to sync to BookFusion and then to your other devices via the BookFusion apps. However, the ability to do two-way sync seems to be expected and could be valuable to a subset of Calibre users and we are considering implementing this in the future.

How important is this feature for you?

Originally Posted by milady133

This plugin is not for synching Calibre books, is for uploading Calibre books to BookFusion cloud, but you have to connect to BookFusion to download the book to your device using their interface once you have the book in their cloud. So in your Mac, you'll have to connect to BookFusion site using Safari, Chrome or whatever you prefer, connect to your account, download the book and import it to Calibre.

Thanks for the reply milady133. If you have any suggestions to improve your reading experience, I would greatly appreciate it if you could spare 3 minutes to complete this survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...NHWXQ/viewform

[skillachie]

Version 0.5.1

*Added support for Python 3. The plugin now supports the latest version of Calibre and also Calibre beta.
*Added additional support to retry after network failure.

[vikarti]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Users obtain a variety of non DRM free eBooks from various sources. eBooks uploaded to your private library, are meant for your private library. As a result BookFusion does not monitor user uploads or their private libraries.

It's interesting what will happen if there is court order telling 'all cloud services' or Bookfusion specifically to delete specific book and prevent it being added in future.
What exactly will happen? Does it matter which book and court's jursdictionh?