[Old Thread] Towards calibre 0.8

[penguinaka]

love what you guys are doing with the software... just told a buddy of mine i wanted to have sex with it lol...

a suggestion for the jobs... can you add a sort feature to the fields so for example the status can be sorted...for errors.

and the ability to multi select copy out of it so it can be pasted into a file to be worked on later.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by penguinaka

love what you guys are doing with the software... just told a buddy of mine i wanted to have sex with it lol...

Note to Self: Must not drink anything while reading this site.

[kovidgoyal]

@Fiacha: As your post has nothing to do with 0.8 I suggest opening a separate thread for it. And generally speaking, use the variosu options availabe in the calibre menu(click the arrow next to the calibre icon on the toolbar and look at library maintenance).

@penguinaka: Making that list sortable/copyable is rather more work than I feel motivated to do. But patches are welcome

@speakingtohe: Try 0.7.58

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Fiacha: As your post has nothing to do with 0.8 I suggest opening a separate thread for it.

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[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by penguinaka

love what you guys are doing with the software... just told a buddy of mine i wanted to have sex with it lol...

Please! Think what the children would look like!

[dotancohen]

Originally Posted by user_none

0.7.56 introduces a new feature for 0.8 that I've been working on for over a month now. There is a new toolbar action called "Get Books." Under preferences, Plugins, they're in Store plugins.

As the names suggest this feature bring store integration to calibre. For the 0.8 release I've included 14 different stores. They are a mix of big box, independent, public domain and free sources. The idea behind this feature is to allow users to easily acquire new books.

Will the user be able to add/remove stores? For instance, here in Israel we have our own local bookstore in our native language. I doubt that would be of any interest to users outside Israel. However, some particular user might dislike Amazon and certainly doesn't want it showing up in their store list (I know such a person, and he uses Calibre).

[dotancohen]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I will continue to make 0.7.x releases, but they will contain the new 0.8 code. To activate that code, go to Preferences->Tweaks and in the bottom left corner click "Plugin tweaks". Then add the following tweak:

test_eight_code = True

Now restart calibre, and you will be running 0.8 code. Note that you need at least calibre 0.7.56 for this tweak to work.

I'm on Calibre 0.7.58, but whenever I close then reopen Calibre the setting is lost. Therefore, I cannot test the 0.8.x code. What might be causing the setting to be lost? I'm on Kubuntu 10.10.

[user_none]

Originally Posted by dotancohen

Will the user be able to add/remove stores? For instance, here in Israel we have our own local bookstore in our native language. I doubt that would be of any interest to users outside Israel. However, some particular user might dislike Amazon and certainly doesn't want it showing up in their store list (I know such a person, and he uses Calibre).

Stores are plugins. Just like any other plugin in Preferences -> Plugins, they can be disabled. Disabled stores will not show in the drop down in the store toolbar action, and they will not show in the store search dialog. You can't disable the store search toolbar action just like you can't disable the add books action but if you don't want to use it you can customize the toolbar and remove it so you don't see it.

[dotancohen]

Originally Posted by user_none

Stores are plugins. Just like any other plugin in Preferences -> Plugins, they can be disabled.

Great, thanks. I can't wait to test, but I'm having problems with the test_eight_code not sticking between resets of Calibre.

[kiwidude]

I would guess a permissioning issue on your local calibre configuration directory.

[dotancohen]

Thanks, Kiki. That's not the issue: the issue was that after Pressing OK in the Edit Tweaks dialogue, I was closing the Preferences and Calibre windows with the keyboard: Alt-F4. Now that I noticed that one must click Apply, I did so and the setting stuck.

I suggest that if one close the window without clickin Apply that he get a warning. Mouse Maids might notice the Apply button, but keyboard users instinctively use the shortcut.

Thanks!

[dotancohen]

Wow, the new cover download dialogue is terrific! That is the feature that made me want to try 0.8.x, and it is near perfect.

One suggestion: if there are no results found, parse the title for "[eE]dition$" (check if it ends in the word "edition") and if so remove the edition information ("first edition", "1st edition") then retry the search. I had to remove that bit from my titles (and put them in a new column) for the feature to find any covers.

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

@dotancohen: The code already removes any edition information provided it is in brackets. I'm not convinced that removing the word edition and its previous word if it is the last word in the title is always safe.

[dotancohen]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@dotancohen: The code already removes any edition information provided it is in brackets. I'm not convinced that removing the word edition and its previous word if it is the last word in the title is always safe.

It's not. I have a book titled "Beginning Java 2, SDK 1.4 Edition" for instance. That's why I suggest only using the trimmed version iff there was no match on the non-trimmed version. And _never_ alter the title, just use the trimmed title for the lookup of metadata (such as a cover).

[kovidgoyal]

You can control whether titles are overwritten with the downloaded result or not. Given the architecture of the download system, decisions on whether to re-lookup after further sanitizing title/author metadata is upto individual metadata download plugins.