X-Ray Builder - Windows Application

[Ephemerality]

Gotcha. If it helps at all, mjwilson made a Calibre plugin based on mine, though I don't think it's been updated in a while and isn't fully-featured.

I'll have a look at the apostrophe thing when I have a chance. I hadn't thought about the other versions of it; U+0027 is what I get when I hit ' on a US keyboard

[Marauder1]

I too noted the problem with Ned in a couple books. Mentioned over 600 times in a book with under 300 pages..

Looking forward to the update!

Will it be on the first page?

(No I haven't figured out what changes I made to mess up the table of contents... Sorry.)

[Ephemerality]

Originally Posted by steinchen

I tried changing

string punctuationMarks = @"(?(')'s?|')?\b[!\.?,""'\);]*";

I changed to this:

string punctuationMarks = String.Format(@"(?([{0}])[{0}]s?|[{0}])?\b[!\.?,""\);{0}]*", "'\u2019\u0060\u00B4");

Though you'll want to try that on a real book; I just tried with a couple strings manually.

Originally Posted by Marauder1

I too noted the problem with Ned in a couple books. Mentioned over 600 times in a book with under 300 pages..

Looking forward to the update!

Will it be on the first page?

(No I haven't figured out what changes I made to mess up the table of contents... Sorry.)

Yeah, the update will show up on the first page and I'll make a post with the notable changes. Hopefully soon, just trying to get a few things sorted out first.

[James Granger]

The Shelfari will probably end in March, is already thinking about a new method to generate the caracters?

I really like this program.

http://thereadersroom.org/2016/01/12...ills-shelfari/

[Ephemerality]

Originally Posted by James Granger

The Shelfari will probably end in March, is already thinking about a new method to generate the caracters?

I really like this program.

http://thereadersroom.org/2016/01/12...ills-shelfari/

Not sure yet. There is a small amount of character data available on GoodReads, but not nearly as much as Shelfari and it is painful to scrape from the site.
I emailed GoodReads to see what their plans were and apparently a lot of people complained about the lack of character data, so it's possible that they will be improving it during the merge. We will have to wait to see what happens with it and wing it from there.

[Ephemerality]

Just a quick update for everyone:
It looks like Shelfari has started their merge with GoodReads; their site does not allow you to manually search for books anymore.
Searching for and viewing the book's page directly via X-Ray Builder appears to work fine for now.

[cant_feel]

Is it possible to have this wonderful software support GoodReads version?

[darrenmcg]

Looking into it at the moment...

[Ephemerality]

Originally Posted by cant_feel

Is it possible to have this wonderful software support GoodReads version?

It's certainly possible, though I was kind of waiting for/hoping that GoodReads would do more to integrate the character data from Shelfari. Right now, their character info is pretty limited and would produce terrible X-Rays. That plus the info isn't readily available on the main book page, so if there are 20 characters listed that's another 20 requests to GoodReads that need to happen (still probably faster than Shelfari overall lol).

[gers1978]

I have a few books that I'm sure would have been on Shelfari, but obviously we can't manually search for them now, and the built-in XRay Builder search doesn't find them.

Any way round this?

[Ephemerality]

Originally Posted by gers1978

I have a few books that I'm sure would have been on Shelfari, but obviously we can't manually search for them now, and the built-in XRay Builder search doesn't find them.

Any way round this?

You can try the direct URL, eg http://www.shelfari.com/search/books...ding=Hardcover.

[gers1978]

Originally Posted by Ephemerality

You can try the direct URL, eg http://www.shelfari.com/search/books...ding=Hardcover.

Great, thanks. As I suspected, that works, so not sure why the XRay Builder search function doesn't find it?

When manually pasting a URL then into XRay Builder, which edition is best to use?

[Ephemerality]

Not sure why it wouldn't work in the app, it has worked for me for most of my books. It can be a bit finicky depending on how the metadata is set up.
The best url to use is the one that looks like this: www.shelfari.com/books/37799950/The-5th-Wave
Though even the base url without the title (www.shelfari.com/books/37799950) should work too.

[gers1978]

Any ideas on this error:

An error occurred while creating the new X-Ray database. Is it opened in another program?
Could not locate any paragraphs in this book.
Report this error along with a copy of the book to improve parsing.

Usually when it happens on a book by an author, all other books by that author have the same issue. The author profiles, etc, seem to be fine, just the X Ray that has this issue

[Ephemerality]

Originally Posted by gers1978

Any ideas on this error:

An error occurred while creating the new X-Ray database. Is it opened in another program?
Could not locate any paragraphs in this book.
Report this error along with a copy of the book to improve parsing.

Usually when it happens on a book by an author, all other books by that author have the same issue. The author profiles, etc, seem to be fine, just the X Ray that has this issue

That error happens when it wasn't able to parse the book's paragraphs in the normal way (the 'is it opened in another program' message is irrelevant here).
If you PM me a copy of the book or the .rawml file, I can have a look and see what the issue is.