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@JSWolf: Yeah having multiple formats for the same logical book is precisely why I wrote the book catalouging part of libprs500 in the first place.
@nairbv: You need a directory for a book precisely because over time your books will not have only a single file, since you're likely to convert them into multiple formats to read them on various devices. If all you ever read is DRMed books then there is no point in maintaining an ebook catalog at all. And you're again making too much of a big deal of what is a relatively small issue when using a cataloging program. Sure the initial import is going to be painful to do. But it is just that, the initial import. Once it's done, your cataloging program will manage the book files and you will find accessing them through it's interface far more convenient than rooting around in your filesystem. Subsequent imports are likely to be of at most a handful of books at a time. You need to stop looking for the perfect solution, you'll never find it, and you'll just end up doing nothing. But hey, maybe you'll get lucky and find the "perfect mate" :-) |
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@kovidgoyal, you're making an assumption about how people organize their books. I organize by author, then by format, then within format folders I have individual books. I think quite a few people do it this way. I'm not saying your program ought to account for this preference-- it's your program, you don't have to provide any functionality beyond what you want to include. But I don't think assuming that everyone groups books by multiple versions within the same directory is valid.
That being said, I don't use libprs500, because I don't have a Sony reader, so my input is moot, I suppose. |
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Not at all, but you must realize that in designing an import tool, one must make some assumptions about how books are organized. As long as you use a consistent system, designing an import tool for it is easy. It's the consistency that is important. As far as libprs50 is concerned, since it's an open source tool and designed in a modular fashion there is no reason why someone can't write an import filter to suit their particular consistent storage system, and I'll be happy to include it :-)
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What I'm working on is using TextPipe to go through my directories and build an XML file to import to FBReader. (I could write a perl script to do it, but I happen to have TextPipe for another purpose, so I might as well use it.)
@kovidgoyal, maybe it would make sense to offer a parameter setting to allow the user to specify the order of import in the recursive directories, e.g. author->book->format vs author->format->book. Then people could pick from a couple of consistent systems. Just a thought. |
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Yeah but there are infinite such variations and I'm lazy
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@kovidgoyal : I've been looking for a e-book inventory/indexing program to use with my Iliad. Your libprs500 program looks like what I need, but am I right in assuming that it's only for the Sony ebook reader?
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Well its cataloging functions are independent of device format. But its conversion utilities are only for SONY and it only detects the sony readers as ebook devices. Someone is working ona Kindle driver for it, but not an Illiad driver as far as I am aware.
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I been looking for way to organize my books. Only having the reader a few weeks I have gotten 100 books. I am playing with libprs500 and it does a good job of cataloging books. Problem I have is when I want to use it for converting it makes it hard to locate the books you are working with. The get sorted with all the others and I am searching for the books.
It would be nice to have a temp section for converting books. When you are done you can add it to the library or not. Folder structure would be nice too. Maybe you can take it from the collection field. Otherwise its a great program for converting. Thanks!! |
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I'm not sure i understand. When you click the save to disk button the converted books are written out in a folder structure.
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It would be nice to have one icon for the whole library and another for new imported books. I can then work on the 5 books and more them over to the library. I usually delete all the books I have in libprs500 to make it easer to work with the few books. Then I can not import the books back and keep some of the meta information like the book cover. Was that clear? |
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You only have to sort your books by date imported to see the last imported first in libprs500 (and I think it's the default view)
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Yeah just sort by date.
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Did that someone ever get very far with this?? The Kindle driver, I mean.
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There is a kindle driver in the calibre source tree that Marielle, the person that wrote it claims to work with his kindle on windows. Not having a Kindle myself, I can't really test it.
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