[GUI Plugin] Kindle Collections (old)

[meme]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

Hi Meme:

I am now getting the following warning on my catalog mobi book which I created, I tried changing from [PDOC] to [News], [Catalog], Catalog and News. Any idea what I need to change it to to stop the warning? BTW, the plugin is doing what it is supposed to but I want to prevent this book from showing up as a warning since it can not go into any collections.

How are you creating the catalog file?

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by meme

Don't put quotes around them. Use the name exactly as it appears in Calibre. If the "|>" is in Calibre's Series name then keep it, but if its a prefix in the plugin, don't type in. Try preview and test.

That was it! Thank you!

[NiLuJe]

@hooby: Nope, you won't have any issue, the check meme implemented was specifically for the issue you reported, and since you've fixed it, you shouldn't have any trouble .

@nynaevelan: Argh, didn't think about catalogs... You'll probably have to tag it with the same tag as your pdoc tag, and *resend* it to your Kindle after that. (The metadata that's bothering us is only set by calibre when the catalog is sent, not when it's created).

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by meme

Kindle Collections 1.4.2 is available.

This works for me (1.4.1 failed with new user message). Thanks for the fast turn around.

[UtahJames]

I had the same error when I tried installing that the file was not a zip file. When I did my windows installation originally I foolishly gave my username a weird character with umlauts ö, and Windows doesn't like that . It automatically saves files to c:\users\myusernäme but won't let me unzip zip files from there, so I had to explore to the C drive, and copy the zip file there, then follow the installation instructions and it worked like a champ.

I hope this helps.

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by meme

How are you creating the catalog file?

I use Calibre to create it with the mobi format for a kindle. It is my understanding from reading on this forum that with periodicals on the kindle you cannot put it into a collection. I cannot manually add it to a collection on the kindle, so I assume "they" know what they are talking about. So how do I get this to stop showing up as a warning each time??

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@nynaevelan: Argh, didn't think about catalogs... You'll probably have to tag it with the same tag as your pdoc tag, and *resend* it to your Kindle after that. (The metadata that's bothering us is only set by calibre when the catalog is sent, not when it's created).

Ok, I will try that.

EDIT: Nope, that didn't fix it, I deleted the book and resent it with Catalog set in the settings and it still gives the warning.

[NiLuJe]

@nynaevelan: Make sure you don't have an old catalog laying around, I don't have any issue with calibre's catalogs once they're correctly tagged as pdoc (But, yeah, by default they aren't).

@meme: I'm still seeing a few bits of UTF-8 stuff, in the titles in the Edit collection panel, and in titles & collection names in individual book reports in the console when running calibre-debug.

[pr126]

Hi meme, on the most recent update I have an error msg:
the last updates were working fine.

calibre, version 0.7.49
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'NoneType' object has no attribute 'is_valid_code'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\Ki ndle Collections.zip\kindle_collections_code.py", line 1559, in create_kindle_collections_gui_preview
File "C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\Ki ndle Collections.zip\kindle_collections_code.py", line 1550, in create_kindle_collections_gui_run
File "\\PETERLAPTOP\Users\Peter\Desktop\kindle_collecti ons_plugin.zip\kindle_collections_code.py", line 2797, in create_kindle_collections_main
File "\\PETERLAPTOP\Users\Peter\Desktop\kindle_collecti ons_plugin.zip\kindle_collections_code.py", line 2460, in process_calibre_collections
File "\\PETERLAPTOP\Users\Peter\Desktop\kindle_collecti ons_plugin.zip\kindle_collections_code.py", line 2451, in add_book_to_collections
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'is_valid_code'

[meme]

Originally Posted by pr126

Hi meme, on the most recent update I have an error msg:

What command are you running when you see this (create/preview/view/edit/etc).

Can you run "calibre-debug -g" and show the output when you run the same command?

[meme]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@nynaevelan: Make sure you don't have an old catalog laying around, I don't have any issue with calibre's catalogs once they're correctly tagged as pdoc (But, yeah, by default they aren't).

After looking at this there seems to be a couple of workarounds, but I've also asked about updating Calibre to make this easier.

• First - delete all copies of your Catalogue from your library and device
• Use the plugin to View collections to see if the warning messages are gone
• Go to Convert books ->Create a Catalogue
• Uncheck 'Send Catalogue to devices automatically'
• Click Download Scheduled, then OK, and wait for the catalogue file to generate
• Use the plugin to View collections again to make sure there are still no warning messages
• Check the tags assigned to the Catalogue book
• Check the tag name used in Preferences->Output Options->Mobi output->Personal doc tag
• Manually add a new tag to the Catalogue book - use the same tag name as the Personal doc tag
• Click Send to Device for the catalogue file
• Use the plugin to Previews collections again to check for warning messages and to see the catalogue in a collection

Alternatively, change your Personal doc tag to "Catalogue" (or "Catalog") to match the default tag used by Catalogues, and add "Catalogue" (or "Catalog") to your Fetch News -> news item -> Extra Tags settings.

@meme: I'm still seeing a few bits of UTF-8 stuff, in the titles in the Edit collection panel, and in titles & collection names in individual book reports in the console when running calibre-debug.

This one might take a while as I'll have to look into unicode and locales...

[nynaevelan]

The workaround didn't work for me, it still gives me the same warning. I've tried different extra tags and still the same thing.

[meme]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

The workaround didn't work for me, it still gives me the same warning. I've tried different extra tags and still the same thing.

What is your 'Personal doc tag' set to?
What tags are assigned to your Catalogue book?
How many files does Calibre say are on your Kindle for your Catalogue? (if only 1 it won't say any) - look in the Device column

[meme]

@pr126 - Can you download and install this test version, then run it in debug mode ("calibre-debug -g") and send the output. This just adds a lot of debugging statements and removes the redundant report info from the debug output so its shorter to post and will help identify what's causing the issue you are having.

@NiLuJe - Can you also download and test this version for the encoding character issue. A simple change fixed the encoding issue I had in the Edit collection titles so I want to see if it fixes yours or makes it worse. And since I've removed the report info from the debug output you won't see issues there.

@nynaevelan - try this test version to check for your PDOC settings

EDIT: test version removed

[pr126]

Originally Posted by meme

What command are you running when you see this (create/preview/view/edit/etc).

Can you run "calibre-debug -g" and show the output when you run the same command?

Thanks for the advice. I run the command "preview" in debug mode and it found a sample book as the culprit.
Removed the sample book from the kindle, and no more error msg.

It works just fine.