Creating Catalogs (Archived) - Page 7

jackie_w · 02-01-2010, 05:37 PM

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GRiker · 02-01-2010, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Thank you for this great new facility which I used for the first time today (v6.37)

On the subject of 'Number sorting', I think there may still be a slight problem - see image

As you can see 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc don't sort correctly.

Fixed in next release.

G

jackie_w · 02-01-2010, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenophon

Would you be willing to add a section for Series to the catalog? It'd be quite useful to have an index by series too.

Xenophon

Working on the principle of "If you don't ask, you don't get", regarding Series info, my Wishlist would be:-

Series Name[Number] added to the Description page header area with the Publisher and Ratings info
e.g. Series: Hercule Poirot [1]
In the Authors section, have the Author's books listed in some kind of Series sequence
e.g. SeriesName/SeriesNo/Title or
SeriesName/SeriesNo/Published
so that books not part of a Series are still sorted in Title or PublishedDate order
In the Descriptions section have the books ordered as above so that it is possible to browse an Author's individual book Descriptions by paging forward/backward.

... and finally ... the Cover thumbnails a little bigger. There appears to be enough room in the Description page header area, but i don't know whether the EPUB would become too big.

Any of the above would be great

Thank you for your efforts so far.

GRiker · 02-01-2010, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Working on the principle of "If you don't ask, you don't get", regarding Series info, my Wishlist would be:-

Series Name[Number] added to the Description page header area with the Publisher and Ratings info
e.g. Series: Hercule Poirot [1]
In the Authors section, have the Author's books listed in some kind of Series sequence
e.g. SeriesName/SeriesNo/Title or
SeriesName/SeriesNo/Published
so that books not part of a Series are still sorted in Title or PublishedDate order
In the Descriptions section have the books ordered as above so that it is possible to browse an Author's individual book Descriptions by paging forward/backward.

... and finally ... the Cover thumbnails a little bigger. There appears to be enough room in the Description page header area, but i don't know whether the EPUB would become too big.

Any of the above would be great

Thank you for your efforts so far.

Feel free to file a feature request ticket (see first post in this thread for how-to). If you do file a ticket, the more detail you can provide, the better, including sample layouts as you envision it.

G

jackie_w · 02-01-2010, 06:43 PM

OK, I'll raise some feature request tickets in the morning.

Amalthia · 02-01-2010, 06:46 PM

This may sound like a weird question but what is the purpose of the catalog?

theducks · 02-01-2010, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amalthia

This may sound like a weird question but what is the purpose of the catalog?

Some e-book readers only have a file system. Kinda hard to find things when there are 700 books on your device.
The catalog works without having Calibre installed, only a reader appropriate for the saved format. CSV works in Excel or Open Office calc.

lmamakos · 02-01-2010, 11:05 PM

Using Calibre 0.6.37, (on OSX Snow Leopard) the catalog creation fails if there are one or more books which do not have an author. I took a quick look, and I didn't notice this reported. Here's the error that pops up:

Code:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog

Generate catalog
Python function terminated unexpectedly: string index out of range
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI:run
 path_to_output: /var/folders/eO/eO4HadZ9HPW2GHYXtKIit++++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.36_PbwU0P_catalog_out.epub
 Output format: epub
 Book count: 246
 opts:
  basename: Catalog
  catalog_title: My Books
  creator: calibre
  descriptionClip: 250
  exclude_genre: \[[\w ]*\]
  exclude_tags: ~
  fmt: epub
  log: <calibre.utils.logging.Log object at 0x65b2470>
  note_tag: *
  output_profile: sony
  plugin_path: <class 'calibre.library.catalog.EPUB_MOBI'>
  read_tag: +
  search_text: None
  sort_by: None
  verbose: True
CatalogBuilder(): Generating epub for sony
0.00% fetchBooksByTitle()
0.08% fetchBooksByAuthor()
0.15% generateHTMLDescriptions()
0.23% generateHTMLByTitle()
0.31% generateHTMLByAuthor()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/louie/Apps/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.6/site.py", line 147, in main
    return run_entry_point()
  File "/Users/louie/Apps/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.6/site.py", line 116, in run_entry_point
    return getattr(pmod, func)()
  File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 99, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 59, in gui_catalog
  File "site-packages/calibre/library/catalog.py", line 2391, in run
  File "site-packages/calibre/library/catalog.py", line 746, in buildSources
  File "site-packages/calibre/library/catalog.py", line 1213, in generateHTMLByAuthor
IndexError: string index out of range

Adding something in the author fields "fixes" the problem, and the catalog gets created.

It would be very slick if somehow you could link between documents on the individual ebook readers, but I haven't seen that quite yet..

DoctorOhh · 02-01-2010, 11:57 PM

Update: My first book's title was Catch-22, I renamed it Catch 22 and it has moved beyond this error.

Here is my current error when attempting to create a catalog. Calibre 0.6.37

Code:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog

Generate catalog
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI(): Generating epub for sony in GUI environment
 Book count: 1113
 opts:
  catalog_title: My Books
  exclude_genre: \[[\w ]*\]
  exclude_tags: ~,Catalog
  note_tag: *
  numbers_as_text: False
  read_tag: +
  search_text: None
  sort_by: None
  sync: False
Begin catalog source generation
Python function terminated unexpectedly
  invalid literal for float(): Catch (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site.py", line 103, in main
  File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 60, in gui_catalog
  File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 2760, in run
  File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 767, in buildSources
  File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 858, in fetchBooksByTitle
  File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 2645, in generateSortTitle
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): Catch

GRiker · 02-02-2010, 05:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Update: My first book's title was Catch-22, I renamed it Catch 22 and it has moved beyond this error.

Here is my current error when attempting to create a catalog. Calibre 0.6.37

Fixed in next release.

G

aceflor · 02-02-2010, 06:52 AM

First of all, this is a great add-on. Thanks for all the work!

Regarding the following:

Quote:

Tips for Kindle users
The catalog builder has some special TOC optimizations for Kindle users.

* To build a Kindle version of your catalog, open the Preferences|Conversion|Page Setup dialog, confirm that your Output profile is either Kindle or Kindle DX.

* To explore your catalog through the Kindle TOC:
o From the Home screen, move the highlight to your catalog, then toggle right.
o Move the highlight down to 'Go to Section...', then click to open the Sections List.
o Highlighting and clicking on a Section name (Descriptions, Authors, Titles, Recently Added, Genres) will take you to that Section.
o Highlighting and clicking on the number in parentheses (right of the Section) will take you to a high-level overview of that Section in your catalog. Try it.
o If you end up somewhere you didn't expect to be, just press the Back button on your Kindle to return to the previously displayed page.

If I toggle to the right when the catalog is highlighted, I get :
'Go to Las Page Read'
'Go to Beginning'
'Go to Location...'

I don't get 'Go to Section...'. Did I forget sthing while building the catalog?

GRiker · 02-02-2010, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lmamakos

Using Calibre 0.6.37, (on OSX Snow Leopard) the catalog creation fails if there are one or more books which do not have an author. Adding something in the author fields "fixes" the problem, and the catalog gets created.

It would be very slick if somehow you could link between documents on the individual ebook readers, but I haven't seen that quite yet..

Absent author problem fixed in next release.

I agree it would be slick to be able to jump directly from the catalog to the book. If someone knows how to do that, I can try adding it.

G

GRiker · 02-02-2010, 08:44 AM

aceflor: A couple of things to check.

Update to latest calibre (0.6.37) if you haven't already
Check Preferences|Conversion|Page Setup|Output Profile, make sure you have 'Kindle' or 'Kindle DX' selected.

Rebuild your catalog and send it to your Kindle. If you're still not getting the Sections... option, post the log from the build (see first post in this thread for how-to)

G

GRiker · 02-02-2010, 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amalthia

This may sound like a weird question but what is the purpose of the catalog?

Kindle is my main E-reader, and I realized that once I had more than a screenful of books on my home page, I was relying on calibre to explore my collection. What I really wanted was an encapsulated snapshot of my calibre collection, but on the Kindle, so I could browse titles, descriptions, covers, etc.

Amazon may or may not release a firmware update with folders, but IMHO the only thing that's really missing from the Catalog is the ability to jump straight from a catalog description to the actual book. I'm still hoping that will be possible, maybe when the KDK is released. In the meantime, you can type the name of the book in the search field, toggle right twice to search 'My Items', then jump to the book. Since I use the catalog as my primary means of browsing my Kindle, I leave the Home page set to 'Subscriptions' (the catalog shows up as a periodical on the Kindle). Now I have a nice, uncluttered Home page with today's papers and catalog interface to my books.

Make sense?

G

aceflor · 02-02-2010, 02:40 PM

@ GRiker:

Quote:

aceflor: A couple of things to check.

* Update to latest calibre (0.6.37) if you haven't already
* Check Preferences|Conversion|Page Setup|Output Profile, make sure you have 'Kindle' or 'Kindle DX' selected.

Rebuild your catalog and send it to your Kindle. If you're still not getting the Sections... option, post the log from the build (see first post in this thread for how-to)

Did both, but still not TOC. So here the log:

Spoiler:

I am lost.... I really thought the metadatas and the tags were clean now....Could that be the reason ? btw, the "unclean" books are Kindle books...

02-01-2010, 05:37 PM	#91
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,267 Karma: 16544702 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	Oops! My first go at displaying the image failed miserably. I've attached it instead Attached Thumbnails

02-02-2010, 08:44 AM	#103
GRiker Comparer of the Ephemeris Posts: 1,496 Karma: 424697 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad	aceflor: A couple of things to check. Update to latest calibre (0.6.37) if you haven't already Check Preferences\|Conversion\|Page Setup\|Output Profile, make sure you have 'Kindle' or 'Kindle DX' selected. Rebuild your catalog and send it to your Kindle. If you're still not getting the Sections... option, post the log from the build (see first post in this thread for how-to) G

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