Cybook support in calibre - Page 4

kovidgoyal · 01-08-2009, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjdb

Thank you for your work, that is good news.

At this stage of the development process are you interested in people reporting problems with Calibre's internal Mobipocket format Viewer ?
I presume that the correct way to do so is by creating a ticket at
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/

However I was wondering about the situation with commercial books that seem to crash your reader.
If I create a Ticket there and attach a Baen eBook that crashes the reader, then it looks like other people can also download that book.
Which could potentially get both me and Calibre into trouble for distributing copyrighted eBooks.

You should thank llasram, MOBI output is his baby. If you're concerned about attaching commercial ebooks, just email them to calibre at kovidgoyal.net and mention the associated ticket.

mjdb · 01-08-2009, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjdb

HOWEVER the first two lines in the out.txt are WRONG
"Main: E:\ Card: F:\"

Those are transposed - on my system Drive E: is the SD card in the Cybook, and the Cybook internal Flash is F.
Martin.

The drive letters are also transposed when I run windows_get_devices on my Vista Laptop connected to my Cybook with a SD card in the socket.

When I remove the SD card, Windows still assigns the earlier drive letter to the empty card slot, preserving the letters.

HOWEVER
With the SD card removed, on both XP and VISTA, windows_get_devices now works CORRECTLY - it gets the correct drive letter for "Main", and says "Card: None"

So the drive letters do not change with a SD card inserted or removed, but if a SD card is present, windows_get_devices transposes the drive letters.

Hope that helps,

Martin.

user_none · 01-08-2009, 07:11 PM

Here is a new version of the detection code. It should not crash if the device is not properly detected. And it should give the proper output in out.txt for non-correctly detected devices. It is looking like differences in the id's between revisions is why it's not being picked up correctly. Anyone who didn't get output from the first one please run this one. It will (hopefully) give me the id information that those devices are using.

As far as the main mem and card being mixed up. This version will still do it. I will make a note that that needs to be fixed.

@kafka399, don't remove the stuff after the bcd lines. Just the bcd lines themselves and a corresponding /match. This removes the bcd check.

The BCD is the device revision. In the case of the Sony Reader. The 505 and 700 have the same Vendor id (Sony), and Product id (Reader), but they have different BCDs.

llasram · 01-08-2009, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You should thank llasram, MOBI output is his baby.

No, no -- it's cool. This way you get the complaints when the first release is slow and has bugs

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kovidgoyal · 01-08-2009, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by llasram

No, no -- it's cool. This way you get the complaints when the first release is slow and has bugs

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Ah, so that's your nefarious plan!

kafka399 · 01-09-2009, 05:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user_none

@kafka399, don't remove the stuff after the bcd lines. Just the bcd lines themselves and a corresponding /match. This removes the bcd check.

I tried, the result is the same

etherspin · 01-09-2009, 08:23 AM

with Mobi on the way , does this mean the news feed full story into Epub BRILLIANCE (great formatting,inclusion of pics and the lovely story not summary) will be translated into Mobi output optionally for cybook users ?
I want a deal maker to buy the cybook (actually i've been asked if i want it for my birthday!!) .. this would do it, your application is beyond awesome

kovidgoyal · 01-09-2009, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by etherspin

with Mobi on the way , does this mean the news feed full story into Epub BRILLIANCE (great formatting,inclusion of pics and the lovely story not summary) will be translated into Mobi output optionally for cybook users ?
I want a deal maker to buy the cybook (actually i've been asked if i want it for my birthday!!) .. this would do it, your application is beyond awesome

Yup .

kafka399 · 01-10-2009, 05:36 AM

I installed the new version and now I have this error:

:~$ calibre
link hasn't been detected!
link hasn't been detected!
Unable to open device
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 59, in detect_device
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 282, in open
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 250, in open_linux
DeviceError: Unable to detect the CYBOOKG3 disk drive. Try rebooting.

Mhargu · 01-10-2009, 06:40 AM

Version 0.4.127 recognises my CyBook and I can see the contents. "Send to Device" works.

Is it possible to send a book to a subdirectory of /eBooks?

This is under Windows Vista 64 Bit, 512MB Version of CyBook Build 796

mbovenka · 01-10-2009, 07:10 AM

Snif. It doesn't detect my Cybook :-( It's a 64M model, build 796. I'm running Windows XP SP3.

user_none · 01-10-2009, 08:27 AM

@mbovenka, It's an issue with the BCD changing between hardware revisions. I can set the BCD to None and it will detect all Cybooks. But this is not ideal... I'm working on a way to get the BCDs.

@Mhargu, Great! There is one bug to be aware of. If you have a card in Calibre will mix the locations of the card and the main memory. I'm hoping to have this fixed by the next release. Sadly no there is not a way to send to a subdirectory unless you use save to disk.

@kafka399, Try deleting the old fdi file and re-run calibre_postinstall as root.

kovidgoyal · 01-10-2009, 12:28 PM

@user_none

You could have the driver map tags to sub directories. You can have the convention that if the tag has / character in it, it is split up into sub directories. So for example, if a tag is

"fiction/scifi/asimov" the book would be placed in eBook/fiction/scifi/asimov

Not sure how to handle multiple tags. Multiple copies of the book or just use the first tag in the list? Wonder if the cybook filesystem has support for hard/soft links?

kafka399 · 01-10-2009, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user_none

@kafka399, Try deleting the old fdi file and re-run calibre_postinstall as root.

I did. No progress.

Code:

Unable to open device
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 59, in detect_device
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 282, in open
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 250, in open_linux
DeviceError: Unable to detect the CYBOOKG3 disk drive. Try rebooting.

user_none · 01-10-2009, 04:54 PM

@kafka399, Gah. Run hal-device again and attach the output.

@kovidgoyal, Interesting way to handle subdirectories. The Cybook uses a Fat32 partition.

@Mhargu, What do you think of Kovoid's idea? Or would you rather see it handled in a different manner.

Any one else have an opinion on how the books should be put on the device? With any luck Bookeen will support sorting via subdirectories on the device itself, so this will be extra handy.

01-10-2009, 05:36 AM	#54
kafka399 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: cybook	Unable to detect the CYBOOKG3 disk drive I installed the new version and now I have this error: :~$ calibre link hasn't been detected! link hasn't been detected! Unable to open device Traceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 59, in detect_device File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 282, in open File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 250, in open_linux DeviceError: Unable to detect the CYBOOKG3 disk drive. Try rebooting.

01-10-2009, 06:40 AM	#55
Mhargu Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Germany Device: Sony PRS T1, PocketBook 360°, CyBook Gen3, Apple iPhone 3GS	Version 0.4.127 recognises my CyBook and I can see the contents. "Send to Device" works. Is it possible to send a book to a subdirectory of /eBooks? This is under Windows Vista 64 Bit, 512MB Version of CyBook Build 796 Last edited by Mhargu; 01-10-2009 at 07:23 AM.

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01-09-2009, 08:23 AM	#52
etherspin Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 292 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: none	with Mobi on the way , does this mean the news feed full story into Epub BRILLIANCE (great formatting,inclusion of pics and the lovely story not summary) will be translated into Mobi output optionally for cybook users ? I want a deal maker to buy the cybook (actually i've been asked if i want it for my birthday!!) .. this would do it, your application is beyond awesome

01-10-2009, 07:10 AM	#56
mbovenka Wizard Posts: 2,075 Karma: 14079267 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Almere, The Netherlands Device: Kobo Sage	Snif. It doesn't detect my Cybook :-( It's a 64M model, build 796. I'm running Windows XP SP3.

01-10-2009, 08:27 AM	#57
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	@mbovenka, It's an issue with the BCD changing between hardware revisions. I can set the BCD to None and it will detect all Cybooks. But this is not ideal... I'm working on a way to get the BCDs. @Mhargu, Great! There is one bug to be aware of. If you have a card in Calibre will mix the locations of the card and the main memory. I'm hoping to have this fixed by the next release. Sadly no there is not a way to send to a subdirectory unless you use save to disk. @kafka399, Try deleting the old fdi file and re-run calibre_postinstall as root.

01-10-2009, 12:28 PM	#58
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,195 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@user_none You could have the driver map tags to sub directories. You can have the convention that if the tag has / character in it, it is split up into sub directories. So for example, if a tag is "fiction/scifi/asimov" the book would be placed in eBook/fiction/scifi/asimov Not sure how to handle multiple tags. Multiple copies of the book or just use the first tag in the list? Wonder if the cybook filesystem has support for hard/soft links?

01-10-2009, 04:54 PM	#60
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	@kafka399, Gah. Run hal-device again and attach the output. @kovidgoyal, Interesting way to handle subdirectories. The Cybook uses a Fat32 partition. @Mhargu, What do you think of Kovoid's idea? Or would you rather see it handled in a different manner. Any one else have an opinion on how the books should be put on the device? With any luck Bookeen will support sorting via subdirectories on the device itself, so this will be extra handy.