[GUI Plugin] Overdrive Link

[rracoon01]

FYI. Just a note on books with 99 copies as returned from the new availability function. In response to a question I asked about why these books are frequently not available for checkout, the folks at overdrive.com explained that the licenses have an expiration date and that when expired it is up to the individual library to either renew the license or pull the book from their catalog. It is not uncommon though for the libraries to just leave the book in the catalog. In this situation a user would only be able to add the book to his holds list. Ideally this is done by the libraries to guage the demand for the book and decide whether to renew their license for it. In my experience with three different libraries, such books languish in my holds list for months, until I finally contact the library. Most often the library will renew the license if contacted, but not always.

Just FYI, no response required.

[Montana Harper]

I love the new wait time feature! I have a question about it, though.

I'd like to be able to split the custom #ol_wait_weeks column into two, one for audiobook and one for ebooks, but because it's a custom column created by OverDrive Link, I can't figure out how to create two new custom columns and populate them from it. Would it be a lot of trouble for that feature/option to be added to the plugin?

Or maybe someone could help me with the custom column creation, since I'm not particularly skilled with Calibre's template language.

Thanks!

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by Montana Harper

I love the new wait time feature! I have a question about it, though.

I'd like to be able to split the custom #ol_wait_weeks column into two, one for audiobook and one for ebooks, but because it's a custom column created by OverDrive Link, I can't figure out how to create two new custom columns and populate them from it. Would it be a lot of trouble for that feature/option to be added to the plugin?

Or maybe someone could help me with the custom column creation, since I'm not particularly skilled with Calibre's template language.

Thanks!

The next release of the plugin will support a tweak that allows the ol_wait_weeks column to be sorted or filtered in a variety of ways, but it will still only allow the creation of a single custom column. If that is not sufficient, you can create multiple custom columns with different subsets of the data, even with the current version of the plugin, but it is a bit complicated to set up. I described one approach in this post.

To set this up you need to copy the function definition from that post to the dialog you can find through Preferences -> Advanced -> Template Functions. Once the template function is set up you can create a new custom column using the function name. Instructions are shown in that dialog, but it is a bit complicated.

That function in that post will show only audiobooks. For non-audiobooks you would replace "'#' in f" with "'#' not in f" and pick a new name for the function, such as ol_wait_non_audio_only.

Once you set up the new columns to your liking you can hide the original ol_wait_weeks custom column by right-clicking the column heading and choosing "Hide column...".

[Montana Harper]

Originally Posted by jhowell

The next release of the plugin will support a tweak that allows the ol_wait_weeks column to be sorted or filtered in a variety of ways, but it will still only allow the creation of a single custom column. If that is not sufficient, you can create multiple custom columns with different subsets of the data, even with the current version of the plugin, but it is a bit complicated to set up. I described one approach in this post.

Perfect, thank you! This does exactly what I needed.

[jhowell]

Version 1.35.0 - 05 Sep 2015

Groups of libraries can be configured for searching by setting the plugin tweak overdrive_link_library_groups. See the help section on Configuring Tweaks for more information.

Links in the ol_wait_weeks custom column can be filtered or sorted differently by setting the plugin tweak overdrive_link_wait_groups. See the help section on Configuring Tweaks for more information.

Detect when reaching the weekly limit on borrowing at Freading blocks the ability to borrow books and to detect pre-release books.

Change Scribd search to switch more quickly to searching by author name when too many results are returned using regular search.

Handle design change at the Scribd website. (Search returning book series as if they were individual books.)

Handle design change at the Hoopla website. (Fixes occasional Server response error (Expected offset 40, but found 0) when searching.)

Improve handling of malformed web pages during sign in to libraries. (Fixes occasional UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte)

Fix handling of books with multiple authors at Axis 360.

Handle design change at Amazon website that caused authors to be missed for some books.

Ignore additional non-author creators for Amazon books, such as illustrators and narrators.

Improve handling of discovered books when alternate author names are configured.

Handle design change at the Internet Archive website. (Fixes no books found when searching the 'read' collection at Open Library.)

[copyrite]

I'm getting an error on Search

Spoiler:

Overdrive Link found: 1 error in searching. (click "View log" for details)





Key: *=Discovered book, @=Available at, !=Recommendable at, $=Purchasable at, #=Audiobook

---------------- ERRORS WHILE SEARCHING ----------------

Search job failure: AttributeError (Configuration instance has no attribute 'author_comparison_cache_with_equivalents')





Search for books by 1 author
DeDRM v6.1.0: In __init__
DeDRM v6.1.0: In load_resources
DeDRM v6.1.0: verdir C:\Users\Julie\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\DeD RM\6.1.0
DeDRM v6.1.0: In initialize
Overdrive Link 1.35.0, calibre 2.37.1
Search formats: Kindle Book, Mobipocket eBook
Get http://maryland.lib.overdrive.com/AdvancedSearch.htm
Search for recommendable books is supported by MD Overdrive
Get http://digitalbooks.brooklynpublicli...ncedSearch.htm
Search for recommendable books is supported by Brooklyn
=================================================
Finding library books by Lisa Kleypas
Search MD Overdrive for wallflower by lisa kleypas
Post http://maryland.lib.overdrive.com/96...esultsList.htm
Data interestlevel=&contentmaturity=&Title=%22wallflowe r%22&Language=&Sort=SortBy%3DRelevancy&CollDate=&C reator=%22lisa+kleypas%22&Publisher=&Subject=&Lexi lelevel=&AtosBooklevel=&ISBN=&GradeLevel=&availabi lityoptions=&PerPage=20&Award=&Format=420
Found 0 books in 0.5 sec
Search MD Overdrive recommendable for wallflower by lisa kleypas
Post http://maryland.lib.overdrive.com/96...esultsList.htm
Data interestlevel=&contentmaturity=&Title=%22wallflowe r%22&Language=&Sort=SortBy%3DRelevancy&CollDate=&C reator=%22lisa+kleypas%22&Publisher=&Subject=&Lexi lelevel=&AtosBooklevel=&ISBN=&GradeLevel=&availabi lityoptions=more&PerPage=20&Award=&Format=420
Response: page 1 of 1. 1 total results
Ignoring available eBook: A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas [Wallflowers [05], 3da99afa-0b0e-485e-8481-9b3dbd03bf7d@, @maryland.lib.overdrive.com !maryland.lib.overdrive.com]
Found 0 books in 0.7 sec
Search Brooklyn for wallflower by lisa kleypas
Post http://digitalbooks.brooklynpublicli...esultsList.htm
Data interestlevel=&contentmaturity=&Title=%22wallflowe r%22&Language=&Sort=SortBy%3DRelevancy&CollDate=&C reator=%22lisa+kleypas%22&Publisher=&Subject=&Lexi lelevel=&AtosBooklevel=&ISBN=&GradeLevel=&availabi lityoptions=&PerPage=20&Award=&Format=420
Response: page 1 of 1. 1 total results
Found eBook: A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas [Wallflowers [05], 3da99afa-0b0e-485e-8481-9b3dbd03bf7d@, @digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org]
Found 1 book in 0.5 sec
Search Brooklyn recommendable for wallflower by lisa kleypas
Post http://digitalbooks.brooklynpublicli...esultsList.htm
Data interestlevel=&contentmaturity=&Title=%22wallflowe r%22&Language=&Sort=SortBy%3DRelevancy&CollDate=&C reator=%22lisa+kleypas%22&Publisher=&Subject=&Lexi lelevel=&AtosBooklevel=&ISBN=&GradeLevel=&availabi lityoptions=more&PerPage=20&Award=&Format=420
Response: page 1 of 1. 1 total results
Ignoring available eBook: A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas [Wallflowers [05], 3da99afa-0b0e-485e-8481-9b3dbd03bf7d@, @digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org !digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org]
Found 0 books in 1.0 sec
=================================================
Opening cache database C:\Users\Julie\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\Ove rdrive Link Cache.db
Opened in 0.0 sec. Cache is 1,374,208 bytes and contains 429 items.
Found 3da99afa-0b0e-485e-8481-9b3dbd03bf7d@ in cache
Updated book info: A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas [Wallflowers [05], 3da99afa-0b0e-485e-8481-9b3dbd03bf7d@, @digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org, Adobe EPUB eBook|Kindle Book|OverDrive Read, 9781429944656, St. Martin's Press, 2008-10-14T00:00:00+00:00]
=================================================
Search job failure: AttributeError (Configuration instance has no attribute 'author_comparison_cache_with_equivalents')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_link.jobs", line 356, in lending_library_search_process
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_link.jobs", line 524, in lending_library_search
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_link.jobs", line 789, in report_excessive_wrong_authors
File "calibre_plugins.overdrive_link.match", line 504, in same_author
AttributeError: Configuration instance has no attribute 'author_comparison_cache_with_equivalents'

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by copyrite

I'm getting an error on Search

Search job failure: AttributeError (Configuration instance has no attribute 'author_comparison_cache_with_equivalents')

That is a new data structure added in this software release. It being missing indicates a need to restart calibre after the installation of the plugin update.

[copyrite]

My bad. When I updated the program I thought I'd try a different icon set and when I looked in the system tray the usual icon wasn't there and I'd figured I'd closed it!

Now it works.

Thanks so much for this plug-in. It's such a time saver!

[colinsky]

Is it possible to copy your profile (list of libraries, other configuration options) from one Calibre installation to another? How would I go about doing so?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by colinsky

Is it possible to copy your profile (list of libraries, other configuration options) from one Calibre installation to another? How would I go about doing so?

This has nothing to do with the plugin.


But yes, you can.
Moving a library: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....ter-to-another
Backup configuration: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....backup-calibre

[jhowell]

The instructions linked to by eschwartz for backing up and restoring the entire calibre configuration will copy the configuration data used by this plugin along with everything else.

If you only want to copy the configuration settings for this one plugin the file you need to copy is in the 'plugins' subdirectory of your calibre configuration directory and is called 'Overdrive Link.json'. (To find the configuration directory using calibre: select Preferences, Miscellaneous, Open calibre configuration directory.)

[colinsky]

Originally Posted by jhowell

If you only want to copy the configuration settings for this one plugin the file you need to copy is in the 'plugins' subdirectory of your calibre configuration directory and is called 'Overdrive Link.json'.

Thanks, jhowell. I did specifically want to copy over my plugin configurations (was referring to overdrive/axis360/3m libraries and not calibre libraries, perhaps we need distinct terminology here), and your instructions did the job.

[buttersk]

looks like my library changed things up a little... can anyone confirm whether or not I have correct settings for Library ID / branch?

Library ID : bridges.lib.overdrive.com
I don't currently have anything in Branch #... not sure if I should.

My Library name in the overdrive bridges system is Kirkendall

final login page if I login manually is here:
http://ezproxy.silo.lib.ia.us:3048/l...ive/kirkendall

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by buttersk

looks like my library changed things up a little... can anyone confirm whether or not I have correct settings for Library ID / branch?

Library ID : bridges.lib.overdrive.com
I don't currently have anything in Branch #... not sure if I should.

My Library name in the overdrive bridges system is Kirkendall

final login page if I login manually is here:
http://ezproxy.silo.lib.ia.us:3048/l...ive/kirkendall

Your Library ID looks correct to me. With that you can search for books available to anyone in the Iowa Bridges consortium.

If you want to be able to find additional books available to your specific library branch you will need to configure the proper Branch ID along with your login credentials. The sign in page for Bridges lists "Kirkendall Public Library - Ankeny" as a branch with id number 1704, so I assume that would be the one for you to use.

(I discovered a bug in the plugin. It fails to list the possible Branch IDs as is supposed to happen if you enter login credentials, but omit the Branch ID. This will be corrected in the next plugin release.)

[buttersk]

Thanks you! Adding the branch number worked perfectly!