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[Ethanaul]

I'd like to store informations about authors, as:

• nicknames (or alternative author name),
• original country
• writing language,
• website,
• other ideas ?

Some explanations
Nicknames
The nicknames could be interresting to search the books from the same author, even if it wrote with another name. As J.K. Rowling (aka Kennilworthy Whisp, Newt Scamander and Robert Galbraith) or Robin Hobb (aka Megan Lindholm).

Original country
I had a trouble with Robin Cook, two autors use this name, one is from UK (real name: Derek Raymond) and one is US.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Ethanaul

I'd like to store informations about authors, as:

• nicknames (or alternative author name),
• original country
• writing language,
• website,
• other ideas ?

Can't you do this with custom columns?

[EDIT: Of course you could, but you want this at the author level, not the book level. Silly me.]

[Ethanaul]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Can't you do this with custom columns?

[EDIT: Of course you could, but you want this at the author level, not the book level. Silly me.]

Yes, it's author level And I can't figure out how to do that without a plugin.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Ethanaul

I'd like to store informations about authors, as:

• nicknames (or alternative author name),
• original country
• writing language,
• website,
• other ideas ?

Some explanations
Nicknames
The nicknames could be interresting to search the books from the same author, even if it wrote with another name. As J.K. Rowling (aka Kennilworthy Whisp, Newt Scamander and Robert Galbraith) or Robin Hobb (aka Megan Lindholm).

Original country
I had a trouble with Robin Cook, two autors use this name, one is from UK (real name: Derek Raymond) and one is US.

Any extra information a plugin might store for an author would be available only in that plugin, which is probably less than one wants. Also, a plugin to store customizable structured information including images would be very complex.

If you used BetterRed's Evernote scheme then the author notes could contain whatever you want, and the notes could sync across machines, including Android. If you are a Calibre Companion user then you can see the "Author links" (presumably to Evernote) in CC's book details and can edit the information in Evernote on the Android device. Evernote will sync it back to your computer running calibre.

EDIT: Sorry about the CC reference. I glanced back at your post to see what device you use, mistakenly looked at the post before yours, and thought you had an Android device.

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by Ethanaul

I'd like to store informations about authors, as:

• nicknames (or alternative author name),
• original country
• writing language,
• website,
• other ideas ?

Some explanations
Nicknames
The nicknames could be interresting to search the books from the same author, even if it wrote with another name. As J.K. Rowling (aka Kennilworthy Whisp, Newt Scamander and Robert Galbraith) or Robin Hobb (aka Megan Lindholm).

Original country
I had a trouble with Robin Cook, two autors use this name, one is from UK (real name: Derek Raymond) and one is US.

@Ethanaul:

For my own personal amusement, a few months ago I created a wxPython/Python/SQLite app with its own database that I called "Author Metadata".

The good news: The database was populated entirely from web scraping.

The bad news: The database was populated entirely from web scraping.

See the attached example of Anne Rice. You can imagine the data quality issues across the web. For example, some URLs call her "Ann Rice" instead of "Anne Rice". Some say that her birth name was "Anne Rice", which is not true. Some web sources have a book's published date, and some do not, or they have it but it is incorrect. And so on. And so on.

The author images scraped from the web were automatically stored in the database as zip-compressed Base64 text of a standard size of 200x200, but the database was still about 50MB when I decided to stop populating it due to data consistency and quality concerns as a result of pure web scraping.

Manually cleaning, standardizing and maintaining such a thing would require too much lifespan to accomplish.

I had a lot of fun doing what I did, and accomplished what I set out to do, which was to have a lot of fun. From this point forward, it would require really unpleasant manual work to clean up after the web scraping. I have better things to do. Life is too short.

I was able to use what clean data I already had to create a large "reference validation data service pack" for my QuarantineAndScrub add-on to Calibre that added the Global Authors, Global Series and Web Source Series Validation Data from the "Author Metadata" database to the special Q&S metadata.db.

Finally, I do have something that may interest you. You mentioned you would like a list of Author Nicknames. Attached is a .zip file that contains a .csv file and a .sql file. Both were exported from the above database, and came from its global pseudonym table that was built from web scraping. Use them if and as you wish.


DaltonST

[Ethanaul]

Wow DaltonST, great job !
I'd a look to your csv file, really interresting, I learned some nicknames

I'll try your QuarantineAndScrub add-on, peharps could it help me to organize things as I want.

[JSWolf]

An idea was brought up in another thread and I thought I'd mention it here.

The idea was for a plugin that would convert these new publisher created ePub 3 eBook into a proper ePub 2 eBook. These ePub 3 are actually just ePub 2 in an ePub 3 wrapper which means they have no reason at all to be ePub 3. So making them back to ePub 2 would mean if anyone wanted to edit these in Sigil, they could do so without having them botched up. Sigil does not like these ePub 3.

[Rellwood]

I hope I posted this correctly, I'm sorry if I didn't.

Is there a way someone could make a plugin that allows Calibre users to select a number of books that will then be auto-added to device in small batches at set timed intervals?

I have a huge library and 3 Kindles. I cannot possibly sit around and download my books 15 at a time. Took me 12 hours once for one Kindle.

Whoever makes this plug in will definitely be getting paid because the ability to plug in my device and have it auto download in batches that will allow the proper indexing of files is invaluable to those who have to do it often.

I know that many people wouldn't populate their readers with so many books, but this is what I need. I tend to have to reset my Kindles often and even if i download 100 books it is still a long time.

[Tanjamuse]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

I hope I posted this correctly, I'm sorry if I didn't.

Is there a way someone could make a plugin that allows Calibre users to select a number of books that will then be auto-added to device in small batches at set timed intervals?

I have a huge library and 3 Kindles. I cannot possibly sit around and download my books 15 at a time. Took me 12 hours once for one Kindle.

Whoever makes this plug in will definitely be getting paid because the ability to plug in my device and have it auto download in batches that will allow the proper indexing of files is invaluable to those who have to do it often.

I know that many people wouldn't populate their readers with so many books, but this is what I need. I tend to have to reset my Kindles often and even if i download 100 books it is still a long time.

Why not the Reading List plugin?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=134856

[PeterT]

The o/p wants the ability to send "x" books at a time; wait a period of time and then repeat with the next batch of books.

I know for a kobo this would not help in that Kobo does not process the content until it is disconnected from the host.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

I hope I posted this correctly, I'm sorry if I didn't.

Is there a way someone could make a plugin that allows Calibre users to select a number of books that will then be auto-added to device in small batches at set timed intervals?

I have a huge library and 3 Kindles. I cannot possibly sit around and download my books 15 at a time. Took me 12 hours once for one Kindle.

Whoever makes this plug in will definitely be getting paid because the ability to plug in my device and have it auto download in batches that will allow the proper indexing of files is invaluable to those who have to do it often.

I know that many people wouldn't populate their readers with so many books, but this is what I need. I tend to have to reset my Kindles often and even if i download 100 books it is still a long time.

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Why not the Reading List plugin?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=134856

Originally Posted by PeterT

The o/p wants the ability to send "x" books at a time; wait a period of time and then repeat with the next batch of books.

I know for a kobo this would not help in that Kobo does not process the content until it is disconnected from the host.

Long shot, in the dark, from left field ==>> Maybe it could be done via mailing the batches to the kindles using the calibre-smtp command in a script that includes embedded waits.

Maybe the Reading List PI could used to define the 'batches' and the Catalogue function could be used to create a CSV from the Reading list(s), which the script can use as its 'driver'. Script kiddies, probably outnumber competent python programmers. Maybe someone has a tweakable script.

BR

[killer9999]

Ok I did a search and no one seems to have suggested this one yet.... how about a plugin that converts the ebooks into Audio books.. (I.E. MP3's) I think this would be a very good plugin... maybe even integrate this funtion with Itunes and push the Audio books into Itunes to be played?

Ted

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by killer9999

Ok I did a search and no one seems to have suggested this one yet.... how about a plugin that converts the ebooks into Audio books.. (I.E. MP3's) I think this would be a very good plugin... maybe even integrate this funtion with Itunes and push the Audio books into Itunes to be played?

Ted

@killer9999 - In this thread ==>> Both Ebooks AND Audio books in Calibre Marcs1102 gives instructions for integrating calibre and Balabolka, a Text to Speech program that will 'read' EPUB and other book format files. IIRC Balabolka can also save the audio to various formats (eg MP3) which you could add as a 'book format' file.

In that thread you'll see reference to the Open With plugin, but you should be able to use the recently added built-in Open With feature rather than the OW PI.

Regarding plugin development - optional plugins are almost always developed by someone who wants the functionality for themselves. However, with a bit of lateral thinking it's often relatively easy to 'loosely couple' third party software, such as Balabolka, with Calibre. The Open With and URL linking features (I use file, evernote and onenote links, as well as html links), the Import List PI, and calibre-server are particularly useful in this regard.

Balabolka only runs on Windows. There are probably similar programs for OSX and Linux.

BR

[Stockel1949]

Hello,

Sorry for the mistakes but I'm French speaking.

I'm looking for software or an Calibre extension that would allow (in batch process) to restore some sequence with the crazy names commonly assigned to the epub filenames and put these epub filenames in accordance with the rules MP3 filenams (like : Author - Title).

I would see this as follows:
control of the ISBN in the metadata, if absent search using the author's name and / or present in the title and update the metadata with this ISBN. With this ISBN retrieve complete data and update the metadatas.
Using these updated metadata rename the file in the format "Author - Title". If the metadata of the author and / or title were missing rename the fielname inserting a character to be agreed (eg. ! ) before the old / existing epub filename so we can locate files not updated by this software / extension and who always have a naming problem.

I hope someone can help me.

Regards

[eschwartz]

calibre can store all that metadata in its database, then using a "send to device" template (see Preferences) you can export books using any metdata-based filename template.

calibre handles internal filenames itself, and you cannot change those.