Beta testers for calibre 9 needed

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

IMO: the best place to put the emblem is below the spine (i.e. on the shelf on which the book sits), rather than on the spine itself.

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Note how it can cohabit with the Mark books push pin - nice

Curious: what does "Automatic" placement do?

BR

If location is irrelevant, it's obvious it's designed for a single ruler, I suppose due to the limited space.

[JSWolf]

8.99.12 is taking a lot longer to shutdown then did 8.99.11 (I think that's it).

Driver: KoboTouch'
[18.12] [Backup Configuration Folder]: starting backup process
[45.91] Shutdown starting...
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[46.00] Grid view shutdown
[46.00] Bookshelf view shutdown
[46.01] Actions shutdown
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[46.21] Metadata backup shutdown
[46.21] [Backup Configuration Folder]: starting backup process
[82.96] [Backup Configuration Folder]: wrote config backup to C:\Calibre Portable\backup-Calibre Settings\2026-01-24 at 22-22-59.zip. Size: 348,082,224 bytes.
[82.96] [Backup Configuration Folder]: finished
[82.96] Current database closed
[82.98] Windows hidden
[83.00] Waiting for overseers and live to shutdown
[83.00] Shutdown complete in 37.09, quitting...

[kovidgoyal]

Yes shelf view supports only one emblem. And automatic put the emblem either above or below the book depending on where there is most space, after placing the mark and on device emblems as well.

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by dunhill

un_pogaz or Kovid, I have a question. I understand that when using emblems in the shelf view, I should choose which rule to use and position it first; that's what I've been trying.

But in the cover grid view, more than one rule appears under emblems.

I'm guessing that the shelf view only accepts one emblem.
I deduce that the shelf view would only accept one emblem, which is obviously due to the allocated space.

Yep, only one and singular emblem (maybe tweak the string a bit to avoid confusion, I just copy-past the text from grid and remove the plural).
And yeah, we are very limited to space here, and when two icons share the same place, we need to resize them so that it doesn't overflow, which can be squishy.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Curious: what does "Automatic" placement do?

BR

Place them when the space is availde in the order: bellow, above, and if both taken, bellow and resize the two.
Custom emblem placement is determined after the Calibre ones.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

That reminds me. I forgot to mention that there should be an easy way to go back to the default spine font. If you don't go and look what the font is used by the rest of the GUI, you won't know and cannot go back. A selection at the top of the font list that says Default system font would do.

Yeah, me two. Same QoL because we can't go back manuely to the "default value".
Work on that.
But I doudt that you idea of a top entry will be posible. We'll see, there will be at least one button "Reset" somewhere.

[dunhill]

[QUOTE=un_pogaz;4562651]Yep, only one and singular emblem (maybe tweak the string a bit to avoid confusion, I just copy-past the text from grid and remove the plural).
And yeah, we are very limited to space here, and when two icons share the same place, we need to resize them so that it doesn't overflow, which can be squishy.


Okay, I just wanted to know.

[kovidgoyal]

Released calibre 9. Thanks again to everyone that helped with the beta testing!

[Karellen]

[DNSB]

[Comfy.n]

[un_pogaz]

hmm, looking at the website and seeing that you mentioned AI integration, I strongly suggest to add a line about the fact the user can "disable" AI features and how to do it.

Yes, it is explicitly stated that it is opt-in, but AIgen features cause such knee-jerk reactions that it's important to put in writing in black and white that you can easily disable them with a single AI kill-switch button (the important terme is disable, not opt-in, the second is not strong enough).
Just look at Firefox, which started adding AI features and is now embroiled in a huge controversy because it plans to add such AI kill-switch option only vaguely in about six months. But users want it now.
So I think it important to clearly comunicate that such option already exist.
(and yes, is not a "true disabeling", but semantic precision is not really important is such knee-jerk topic)

Also, this option is not mentionned in the main changelog.

[BetterRed]

thanks

en_pogaz: Some of the people I've been running into of late could do with a dose if 'I', real or pretend.

[xyzzy_foo]

For us, it's a big deal that this includes two important fixes for Kobo eReader users in Japan.

In particular, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank poolboie for investigating the official implementation of tate-chu-yoko.
As they pointed out in the 5channel community, some publishers, like Iwanami Shoten for example, use tateyoko and otateyoko classes instead of the standard EBPAJ/DPFJ tcy class, which my fix did not account for.

The OMF cover image reading feature is also significant for the tasks of extracting cover images and transferring them to KEPUB. This is a particularly meaningful update for the latter, as it previously used cover images automatically generated by calibre.

P.S. It wasn't my suggestion, but OMF support has now been implemented in Thorium Reader as well.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

hmm, looking at the website and seeing that you mentioned AI integration, I strongly suggest to add a line about the fact the user can "disable" AI features and how to do it.

Yes, it is explicitly stated that it is opt-in, but AIgen features cause such knee-jerk reactions that it's important to put in writing in black and white that you can easily disable them with a single AI kill-switch button (the important terme is disable, not opt-in, the second is not strong enough).
Just look at Firefox, which started adding AI features and is now embroiled in a huge controversy because it plans to add such AI kill-switch option only vaguely in about six months. But users want it now.
So I think it important to clearly comunicate that such option already exist.
(and yes, is not a "true disabeling", but semantic precision is not really important is such knee-jerk topic)

Also, this option is not mentionned in the main changelog.

Yeah, I see people on the subreddit switching to other programs despite me pointing out it didn't even do anything unless enabled.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Yeah, I see people on the subreddit switching to other programs despite me pointing out it didn't even do anything unless enabled.

Can you post a URL so I can see the weenies wandering off? Thanks.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can you post a URL so I can see the weenies wandering off? Thanks.

This was one, but the complainer deleted their posts. (Some of the responses are there, though collapsed.)