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Chasing Butterflies
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Pretty Library Carousel Ideas?
I have something like 4k books in my Calibre library now (addiction? what's that? I can quit anytime!) and have been pondering a nice way to put the covers on a rotating display (ideally away from the computer, i.e., NOT as a screensaver) in the house somewhere as one-part Pretty Library Feels and one-part "Hey, remember all the books you still haven't read? Get on that!" because I'll be honest that things are getting bought and forgotten about in a way that paper books didn't/weren't.
I spent much of the weekend uploading all my ebook cover.jpg files from Calibre onto a card to insert in a digital picture frame we had lying about unused, but disappointingly the digital frame in question was not programmed to rotate or resize-to-fit so that ended up being a wasted effort. Has anyone managed a "rotating" (i.e., timed rotation that changes every 30 seconds or wev) display with a specific brand of digital frame or an android app on a cheap tablet? Or come up with other clever ways to display library titles away from Calibre running on a desktop? I'm fishing for clever ideas. (Also, hi! *waves* I still exist! I know, I'm shocked too, how've ya'll been, much hugs for everyone.) |
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Well trained by Cats
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I have a old Winbook
It will randomize, Cross fade effects. Dig deep into the settings. The options are not always obvious ![]() BTW when I say: Rotate , I think of portrait/landscape I think you want a 'Slideshow' either by sequence or random Since most of my covers are portrait, I hope your frame scales to fit (I expect that your fram assumes landscape and has no provision to Rotate if the frame was mounted portrait |
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Brash Fumbler
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The NOOK Simple Touch has a file for images to use as a kind of screensaver.
It wouldn't be hard to load cover images into that file. Then the e-reader would be making its own suggestions! |
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I just tried it with 45 books
I used Save to disk (EPUB) /single folder with cover as a separate file (this is set in Preferences) so all the photos have a title/author My device ignores the books but you could use the command prompt DO NOT USE ON YOUR LIBRARY Code:
E: (the drive letter for the sdcard) del /S *.epub <this walks the sub folders |
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Further update:
I put 4500 covers on the SD Card (~302MB) Poor old Winbook wheezes and the main menus are so slow that it makes the US Postal service look like a rocket ![]() But it works (and looks pretty spiff) I manage to get it into a 2 Up (2@ 5x3" covers showing) mode with each half alternating a change |
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