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[dunhill]

Originally Posted by theducks

You can sort get plugins by clicking any column head.
Good luck finding kiwidude
(the are listed by legal name: eg Grant Drake)

[Tenome]

A cover downloader for Booklive (JP books) would be nice. They usually have the best resolution for covers (better than Kindle JP it seems), and their cover URL scheme is consistent.

For example
https://booklive.jp/product/index/ti...859/vol_no/001

The high-res cover's URL is:
https://res.booklive.jp/331859/001/thumbnail/X.jpg

So the format would be:
https://res.booklive.jp/<title_id>/<vol_no>/thumbnail/X.jpg

As someone who makes/reads a lot of JP books, this would save me the hassle of replacing low-resolution covers every time I get an ebook from elsewhere.

[Thari]

I don't know if there's something close enough that uses mal or anilist, but I've been trying to find something that imports data from your list from mangaupdates since that site has more info than the other two.

[lewisdale]

What about a plugin to download metadata from ********* which is chock full of books and book info?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by lewisdale

What about a plugin to download metadata from ********* which is chock full of books and book info?

H... NO

********* is a source of COPYRIGHTED materials.

I'd strongly advise you to
a) forget about that site
b) never mention it here
c) never ask for help with issues with books from that location


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[Comfy.n]

Hi!

This is not a plugin idea, but rather a browser extension... anyway:

I use this add-on on waterfox classic. (this one works for me only when called from context menu, but not from the toolbar button, so I prefer the former)

Those add-ons enable me to have a Goldendict toolbar button and a shortcut key that allow me to select text on a webpage and have the dictionary program open and look it up seamlessly.

Analogously, it would be awesome if one could select text on a webpage and have Calibre open a FTS search for the selected text.

As Goldendict is also a QT based program, I suspect this might be feasible...

I've tried adding Calibre to the newer External Application add-on, but I couldn't get the selected text to be passed to the Calibre search bar either.

[kiwidude]

@comfy.n - without a browser extension the closest you can get is available with the Clipboard Search plugin. So you copy that text selected in the webpage, then Alt-Tab or click on calibre window to give it focus and hit the plugin shortcut key for executing the search with Ctrl+S.

Removing steps out of that to become a browser right-click would need a browser extension which is out of the scope of this forum. Nowadays that might even be a lot easier to implement I think maybe even using the URL scheme stuff to fire off the search if the browser allowed it. I made use of that for a different external tool I wrote, it works much more nicely than my previous SendKeys type approach I had to use.
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html

If I find a rainy day I may give this a dabble, not tried writing a browser extension before but its just javascript…

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

If I find a rainy day I may give this a dabble, not tried writing a browser extension before but its just javascript…

[Rellwood]

I know Calibre has it's own book jacket creator, and you can add metadata when converting, but it has been one of the most clunky and unattractive features that I commonly use.

I know that it's possible to create and update the jacket through the files in Calibre, but I have never been able to really understand and figure out how to do it.

Since I have a Kindle Paperwhite none of the book metadata shows and I have relied on both a Calibre Catalog and book jackets to get book info to choose what to read next.

Over the years I have developed a bit of a hack to get what I want in that jacket by copying over in a nicely formatted way the various data from columns into my comments of the book. However, when I open the book and see the data it's like all my hard work has been replaced with an ugly jacket that isn't set up to handle all that data and is not editable. I know that using the comments column isn't the best idea, but it's the only idea I have at the moment since there isn't an option to use another space for this. If the comments column had the ability to format the line height that would be helpful in setting up the spacing between paragraphs.

I propose a plugin that would allow someone to create a jacket along the lines of how a catalog is made, but with the option to edit the formatting of line spacing/height, font, which metadata to add, etc. Maybe allow multiple templates to be created and saved which can then be used instead of the generic one created by Calibre. There are so many different areas that could be edited. People who aren't very adept at editing the jacket template within the Calibre folder would benefit from this. I know this is a tall order and most likely not done, but if there was the possibility for a better way of getting all that data in a nice package so that I could better see what I am getting I would appreciate it.

[dunhill]

Do you know any plugin that extracts the version number of the book?
Actually I would be interested in the review, the compiler

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by dunhill

Do you know any plugin that extracts the version number of the book?
Actually I would be interested in the review, the compiler

Most eBooks do not have a version number. Some do. I do wish they all did.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by dunhill

Do you know any plugin that extracts the version number of the book?
Actually I would be interested in the review, the compiler

Many books have an ISBN -- does that count as a version number?

I think only commercial physical books are guaranteed to have one.
Some epubs do too.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by compurandom

Many books have an ISBN -- does that count as a version number?

I think only commercial physical books are guaranteed to have one.
Some epubs do too.

ISBN is an identifier. It is not a version number.

This is a version number from a DAW eBook. It's in the copyright page.
btb_ppg_141035760_c0_r7

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

ISBN is an identifier. It is not a version number.

Last I checked it was both. Subsequent editions I think sometimes increment or suffix the ISBN.

Even if it gets a new ISBN rather than incrementing the old one, it's still a version number of sorts.

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by compurandom

Many books have an ISBN -- does that count as a version number?

I think only commercial physical books are guaranteed to have one.
Some epubs do too.

The revision or version number I say is
version="1.1"
<p class="trevision">
<span class="tdate">
What is inside the file