Frequently Asked Questions - Page 25

neln · 05-30-2010, 07:46 AM

Hello, new to the forum but I wanted to ask something about Calibre,
- What finance/economics magazines/newspapers calibre gets access to? Paid and Unpaid? I couldn't find a such a list.
- Also what are such finance/economics resources that can be accessed through custom recipes, the topic is quite big in the forum and haven't seen a list there either?
Any paid content from FT, WSJ, Efinancialnews or such?

If not, say I have a subscription, could a custom recipe be written to fetch news from a paid section of such a website or to get a daily newsletter from a members area of a investment advisory site lets say?
Thanks and good job!

DoctorOhh · 05-30-2010, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neln

Hello, new to the forum but I wanted to ask something about Calibre,
- What finance/economics magazines/newspapers calibre gets access to? Paid and Unpaid? I couldn't find a such a list.

Click on the fetch news icon and it will give you a complete list of current sources.

Quote:

Originally Posted by neln

If not, say I have a subscription, could a custom recipe be written to fetch news from a paid section of such a website or to get a daily newsletter from a members area of a investment advisory site lets say?
Thanks and good job!

Yes, Recipes are very flexible and there is a sticky thread dedicated to just recipes.

summy · 06-06-2010, 11:03 PM

Hi,
I have Aluratek Libre Pro reader. I download news magazines like CNN using Calibre. The links on the table contents to navigate to a section or news article are not clickable and I have to skip all the pages until I can reach a news article. But this is not the case with readers like Sony 505, where the TOC links (and end-of-article links like Main Menu, Next etc.) are clickable.

Is there any solution to this issue?

Thanks

DoctorOhh · 06-06-2010, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by summy

Hi,
I have Aluratek Libre Pro reader. I download news magazines like CNN using Calibre. The links on the table contents to navigate to a section or news article are not clickable and I have to skip all the pages until I can reach a news article. But this is not the case with readers like Sony 505, where the TOC links (and end-of-article links like Main Menu, Next etc.) are clickable.

Is there any solution to this issue?

Enquire with the company and ask them when they are going to start supporting links in ePub books.

crangirl · 06-13-2010, 04:45 AM

Is there an easy way to remove double files/entries? Calibre doesn't say they're the same, because of a different name.. but when I use the program 'FSlint' for example.. it does find them.. but they stay in the Calibre database.. without any formats to choose.

Is there a way to remove these?

Or to sort them, a list of books without formats/files?
It's probably a search that's really easy.. but I can't figure it out

Starson17 · 06-13-2010, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by summy

I have Aluratek Libre Pro reader. I download news magazines like CNN using Calibre. The links on the table contents to navigate to a section or news article are not clickable and I have to skip all the pages until I can reach a news article. But this is not the case with readers like Sony 505, where the TOC links (and end-of-article links like Main Menu, Next etc.) are clickable.

Is there any solution to this issue?

What kind of solution do you want? Dwanthny's is probably the only way to make them clickable (ask the mnfr to fix it), but you could modify the recipe to remove the links if you just don't want to see them. It probably won't get modified permanently, as that would prevent others from clicking on them.

Starson17 · 06-13-2010, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crangirl

Is there an easy way to remove double files/entries? Calibre doesn't say they're the same, because of a different name.. but when I use the program 'FSlint' for example.. it does find them.. but they stay in the Calibre database.. without any formats to choose.

Is there a way to remove these?

Or to sort them, a list of books without formats/files?
It's probably a search that's really easy.. but I can't figure it out

This is odd. FSlint finds duplicate files, so how could there be duplicate files, but no formats to choose?

If you want to know where the dupes are, FSLint should tell you the directory structure where it found the file, and that should tell you the author and title. If you really do want to find ebook entries in Calibre's database, with no formats, use this:

Code:

format:false

Edit: Aha, you're deleting the duplicates, and want to find the records you've deleted without telling Calibre. The above will only work for records where you've deleted all formats.

crangirl · 06-14-2010, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starson17

Code:

format:false

This doesn't work.. maybe because it's an older version of Calibe? (Because I'm using Ubuntu/linux).

chaley · 06-14-2010, 03:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crangirl

This doesn't work.. maybe because it's an older version of Calibe? (Because I'm using Ubuntu/linux).

Are you also using an old version of Ubuntu? I ask because I have calibre 0.7.2 installed and working on ubuntu 10.

itimpi · 06-14-2010, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crangirl

This doesn't work.. maybe because it's an older version of Calibe? (Because I'm using Ubuntu/linux).

That SHOULD work even in relatively old versions!

Just to clarify a point, which of the following are you trying to achieve:
- Detect entries that have no associated format defined in the Calibre database
- Entries that have a format defined, but the underlying file for that format has been removed

I suspect it is the latter which is why the search criteria given is not working? It is looking purely at the metadata.db database file.

I believe that with the latest versions of Calibre if you use the option to check database integrity it will find the cases where the underlying file has been removed and update the database accordingly. note that with large librAries this can take quite a while to complete. Having done that the search term should then work.

Starson17 · 06-14-2010, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by itimpi

That SHOULD work even in relatively old versions!

I found a bug in the false searches back around 6.4x or so. Earlier than 6.3x I'm almost certain it won't work right, although it might find one entry.

crangirl · 06-18-2010, 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starson17

I found a bug in the false searches back around 6.4x or so. Earlier than 6.3x I'm almost certain it won't work right, although it might find one entry.

I've updated Calibre and it dóes work now.

Starson17 · 06-18-2010, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crangirl

I've updated Calibre and it dóes work now.

Great!

crangirl · 06-18-2010, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starson17

Great!

I thought it worked.. but there are still files left without any format.. and format:false doesn't work..?

If I use this script: calibre_find_books_missing_in_database
.. I do get a list.. but I can't get them to show up in Calibre to remove them

chaley · 06-18-2010, 12:28 PM

If you haven't done it, you should run Preferences -> Advanced -> Check database integrity. That will clean missing formats out of the db. It won't add extra books in, though.

05-30-2010, 07:46 AM	#361
neln Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: none	Hello, new to the forum but I wanted to ask something about Calibre, - What finance/economics magazines/newspapers calibre gets access to? Paid and Unpaid? I couldn't find a such a list. - Also what are such finance/economics resources that can be accessed through custom recipes, the topic is quite big in the forum and haven't seen a list there either? Any paid content from FT, WSJ, Efinancialnews or such? If not, say I have a subscription, could a custom recipe be written to fetch news from a paid section of such a website or to get a daily newsletter from a members area of a investment advisory site lets say? Thanks and good job! Last edited by neln; 05-30-2010 at 07:48 AM.

06-06-2010, 11:03 PM	#363
summy Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Aluratek Libre	TOC links on Aluratek Libre Hi, I have Aluratek Libre Pro reader. I download news magazines like CNN using Calibre. The links on the table contents to navigate to a section or news article are not clickable and I have to skip all the pages until I can reach a news article. But this is not the case with readers like Sony 505, where the TOC links (and end-of-article links like Main Menu, Next etc.) are clickable. Is there any solution to this issue? Thanks

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06-13-2010, 04:45 AM	#365
crangirl Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 128 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Pocketbook 360	Is there an easy way to remove double files/entries? Calibre doesn't say they're the same, because of a different name.. but when I use the program 'FSlint' for example.. it does find them.. but they stay in the Calibre database.. without any formats to choose. Is there a way to remove these? Or to sort them, a list of books without formats/files? It's probably a search that's really easy.. but I can't figure it out

06-18-2010, 12:28 PM	#375
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,525 Karma: 8065948 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	If you haven't done it, you should run Preferences -> Advanced -> Check database integrity. That will clean missing formats out of the db. It won't add extra books in, though.