[GUI Plugin] Kindle Collections (old)

[meme]

Ah, yes that one - ran into it a few days ago . You should only get that if you are trying to create collections from a boolean column (that's one that only allows true/false). Is that what you are doing?

I was debating whether or not to remove the boolean columns from showing up in the customization section. For now I've left them and I just convert them to the names "True" and "False". Its not a very useful set of names though.

Good to see you got the file to load. Thanks for trying it again, and reporting the problem.

You shouldn't have to know anything about the timestamps on the collections file - the Kindle handles that in the background, as does the plugin. Basically both record the last time you created/opened/modified the collection so it can sort them by most recent in your list. (Sort by Collections on the Kindle is really sorting by most recent, but when the plugin creates the collections it puts fake timestamps on them in order to make them sort in alphabetical order when you first use the Kindle.)

[Sassafrass]

Well, I've been playing around with it, and I can get everything to work so far except creating new collections for kindle on Calibre. this is a really cool plug-in.

I don't think I'm using a yes/no one to make collections but maybe I am. I'm going to look again.

[Sassafrass]

You were right. That's exactly what I did. I checked under customization and there was a yes/no column that I had used when I first installed to use a collection. I deleted that...and BINGO. it's working like a charm!

[meme]

You're welcome

Thinking about the yes/no column I think what I might do is if you create from a boolean column called for example 'To Read', then I will create a collection called 'To Read' on the Kindle and put in it every book marked True. I'll ignore any book marked False/none. Much better than True/False. Although I could create a 'Not To Read' or 'To Read - False' collection and put every book that is false into it. Hmmm....

[skurvish]

Something to consider: I would like to be able to have an option to not place a book into an author collection when it is part of a series collection. My intent is that anything in just the author collection are standalone novels or that I have only 1 of a series (I have set the series to a minimum 2).

Is something easily accomplished?

TIA.

[julius90]

hi meme,
I just updated calibre to 0.7.57 from 0.7.56 and Kindle Collections to 1.5.3 from 1.4.3. Now it doesn't work right (but 1.4.3 does). Would you please have a look at this? Thank you for your great work.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.ui", line 88, in preview_kindle_collections
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.create_preview ", line 46, in create_kindle_collections_main
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_device" , line 211, in get_file_paths
File "ntpath.py", line 259, in walk
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_device" , line 223, in get_file_path
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 10: invalid continuation byte

[k1951j]

Meme - I did not use any other pgms on this file. Since json was not valid I used WinRar to convert to accepted file type. I also upgraded to 0.7.57!

[brooket]

Hi There
I have just tried installing the plug in to Callibre today (Calibre V 0.7.57) however when I try to use any of the manage kindle menu items I get the following error. I am using a Kindle 3 and I have attached the json file for your info. btw I have already tried removing the plugin and reinstalling it.

Thanks


calibre, version 0.7.57
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>NameError</b>:global name 'message' is not defined

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.ui", line 83, in create_kindle_collections
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.create_preview ", line 43, in create_kindle_collections_main
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_collect ions", line 23, in init
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_collect ions", line 33, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_collect ions", line 42, in initialize
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_collect ions", line 61, in check_collections
NameError: global name 'message' is not defined

[meme]

Originally Posted by skurvish

Something to consider: I would like to be able to have an option to not place a book into an author collection when it is part of a series collection. My intent is that anything in just the author collection are standalone novels or that I have only 1 of a series (I have set the series to a minimum 2).

Yes - you just need to use Calibre's custom column feature to create a new column in Calibre that displays either the Series name or the author. Once you create the column, use the plugin's Customization screen to select it (mark it 'Create') and remove the 'Create' from your author and series columns.

I've added this as an example in the Calibre Custom Columns section on the first post.

[meme]

Originally Posted by julius90

hi meme,
I just updated calibre to 0.7.57 from 0.7.56 and Kindle Collections to 1.5.3 from 1.4.3. Now it doesn't work right (but 1.4.3 does). Would you please have a look at this? Thank you for your great work.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.ui", line 88, in preview_kindle_collections
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.create_preview ", line 46, in create_kindle_collections_main
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_device" , line 211, in get_file_paths
File "ntpath.py", line 259, in walk
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_device" , line 223, in get_file_path
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 10: invalid continuation byte

Thanks for this. I've modified the code that caused this - an attempt to better deal with non-ascii characters that clearly didn't work. Let me know if the next version works for you.

[meme]

@k1951j, @brooket:

One of your collections does not have a last accessed timestamp. This may be caused by migrating collections from K2 to K3, or there may be times when the K3 doesn't add the timestamp. In either case, the new version of the plugin deals with this correct so it should work ok for you.

[meme]

See the first post in this thread to download the new version.

Requires Calibre 0.7.57

Changes in this release - a few bug fixes and adding the last of the new features on my list:

• Added customization option to change toolbar icon to either launch an action (create/edit/etc) or just show menu
• Added support for "," in collection names by converting to ";" when importing and re-converting to comma on export
• Added warning if you try to use the plugin before Calibre has loaded all book metadata from the Kindle
• Added error message if no columns have 'Create' or 'Delete' selected when running Create/Preview Collections
• Added version number to create/preview/view reports
• Modified boolean columns to create a collection name the same as the column name including books where column value is True
• Modified default keys in menu (e.g. after opening menu, pressing 'C' runs Create)
• Fixed crash when reporting that the collections file had an incorrect format that was fixed
• Fixed error when trying to create collections from a boolean column
• Replaced os.path.walk with os.walk and removed unicode encoding of path
• Various cleanup of messages, layout change to Customization window
• Requires 0.7.57 (book metadata check)

If you find any issues or have any suggestions/comments, let me know.

[kenr276]

Version 1.5.4 not showing up on plugin updater but shows in version history.

Ken

[kiwidude]

@Ken - that is intentional, the plugin index page hasn't been updated for it yet. I'm waiting for meme to give me the thumbs up that he is happy this version doesn't have any major issues reported here.

[ToeRag]

I've just stumbled on the what appears to be a GREAT plugin for Calibre which I use all the time.

Just installed Calibre 7.57 on another PC that I have and installed the NEW kindle_collections.zip plugin that I downloaded today.

However, there is no button in the calibre menu? during the installation I selected to allow the button on the main menu bar, yet nothing appears weather the kindle in connected to the PC or not.

I tried uninstalling plugin and reinstalling with the same results. The only difference was that I never got the choice of how or where to have the application interface (menu button placement).

can someone help?

NEVERMIND!

I was looking for a Button! it added a TEXT selection on the menu bar....

sorry.