KOReader: a document reader for PDF, DJVU, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ... (GPLv3)

[NiLuJe]

@mmjoshi: No idea, it's a very recent feature, and was developed mainly by Kobo user(s). Try to ping WS64 on the Kobo thread, he's the one most familiar with this feature.

[MaxStirner]

Originally Posted by knc1

@MaxStirner:
So you like plug-ins?
Try KUAL - everything except the menu framework is a plug-in.

Plus, it is designed so that writing new plug-ins is fairly simple.
Many people have written plug-ins,
in fact,
we sort of gave up on trying to keep the "Comprehensive List" of plug-ins up to date.
Have fun.

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Maybe we should just have a sort prefix for KUAL (plug-in) Buttons?
Then we could give up on that "Comprehensive List".

Where to look for them? Is there a section on the forum? By default I see only 2 in the menu.
What I wanted to say in my last post is that this is a way better than "pushing" features into the soft.
Personally I like reading enhancements (formatting, dictionary support) but don't use basically anything beyond that. For example since I don't use Evernote at all i can delete its plugin. But I also don't use Calibre that much - yet I see that after adding Calibre support the zipped program is bigger by about half a megabyte after only one nightly upgrade. How can I delete that? This Calibre support has no plugin...
I'm asking this because I'm often out of space already (yes I plan to upgrade to the newest kindle in November/December hopefully with some more space available).
The other reason Is that I find overloaded menuses a bit cumbersome and pointless - and I envision more such features to come
So that is why am asking for plugins - because as a nob I can easily locate and remove them

[knc1]

If your asking about KUAL plug-ins:
The "Where do I start" sticky thread, then scroll down to the "Applications and Hacks" section.

If your asking about KOReader plug-ins:
I don't think it supports them.

I mentioned KUAL because it lets you add features to your DEVICE (not to KOReader) of your own choice.

[WS64]

Originally Posted by mmjoshi

I am trying to use the Search Books feature in the File Manager of KOReader. I want to search for all pdf/epub/djvu formats. If I give *.pdf or *.epub or *.djvu string in the search window nothing is shown. However, if I just input pdf I get to see all my pdf books. But I get the file not found error if I try to open the pdf file by double clicking on it If I input epub or djvu in the search box nothing is displayed tough there are a number of books in these formats.

Would like to know how to use the search feature for

1. Searching for pdf or epub or djvu books and
2. How to open these books by double clicking on the book name

mj

Sorry for the late response, I usually do not look into the Kindle section.
First of all, *.anything will not work, use .anything instead. This search is not a filename search, it searches for title, author, series, tags and the complete path to the book. It does not support wildcards though.

It should tell you the complete path of the not found book, check if this is really where you expect the books to be. Chances are that Koreader automatically found an old version of metadata.calibre. So please check if the searchpath really points to the correct calibre file. In case you manually moved this file to a new location you also will get this not found result.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by MaxStirner

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I'm asking this because I'm often out of space already (yes I plan to upgrade to the newest kindle in November/December hopefully with some more space available).
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Dream on.

Unless Amazon/Lab126 finally fixed the indexer routines -
The storage is limited by the number of documents that the indexer can handle rather than the amount of available user accessible RAM.

See bullet #2:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=237083

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6363 - a neat digit pattern

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by knc1

Dream on.

Unless Amazon/Lab126 finally fixed the indexer routines -
The storage is limited by the number of documents that the indexer can handle rather than the amount of available user accessible RAM.

Dumb question: The kindle actually indexes epub documents? I thought I was free of that. After adding epubs, my PW1 is not laggy in KOreader, even immediately after ejecting.

[mmjoshi]

Originally Posted by WS64

Sorry for the late response, I usually do not look into the Kindle section.
First of all, *.anything will not work, use .anything instead. This search is not a filename search, it searches for title, author, series, tags and the complete path to the book. It does not support wildcards though.

It should tell you the complete path of the not found book, check if this is really where you expect the books to be. Chances are that Koreader automatically found an old version of metadata.calibre. So please check if the searchpath really points to the correct calibre file. In case you manually moved this file to a new location you also will get this not found result.

Thanks @WS64. I tried to find the pdf files by giving .pdf searh term. It did locate the pdf files. Interestingly just pdf will work too! However, when I doubleclick the file name it gives me the dreaded file does not exist error though the file does exist at the path mentioned by the File Manager.

I have only one metadata.calibre in the /mnt/us directory of the Kindle. I am not clear as to which searchpath should contain this value.

mj

[trekk]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Dumb question: The kindle actually indexes epub documents? I thought I was free of that. After adding epubs, my PW1 is not laggy in KOreader, even immediately after ejecting.

That's my experience too. I don't think that the Kindle indexes epub files.

[WS64]

@mmjoshi, what exactly does it say? Something like
/mnt/us/k/Stephen King/Cujo.pdf not found?
And is there really a file /mnt/us/k/Stephen King/Cujo.pdf? (of course with your book instead of Cujo)

And the search path, variable SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH in defaults.lua and, if it exists, in defaults.persistent.lua

[mmjoshi]

Originally Posted by WS64

@mmjoshi, what exactly does it say? Something like
/mnt/us/k/Stephen King/Cujo.pdf not found?
And is there really a file /mnt/us/k/Stephen King/Cujo.pdf? (of course with your book instead of Cujo)

And the search path, variable SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH in defaults.lua and, if it exists, in defaults.persistent.lua

It says File /documents/Directory name/Book name.pdf does not exist.

I have set SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH to "mnt/us/documents/"
and SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH2 to "/mnt/us/" in default.lua in the KOReader directory though I doubt that makes any difference.

I appreciate your support.

mj

[WS64]

It does not say "/mnt/us/documents/something does not exist" but only "/documents/something does not exist"?
Do you have two metadata.calibre files, one in /mnt/us and one in /mnt/us/documents?

[mmjoshi]

Originally Posted by WS64

It does not say "/mnt/us/documents/something does not exist" but only "/documents/something does not exist"?
Do you have two metadata.calibre files, one in /mnt/us and one in /mnt/us/documents?

Yep, that's what it says, "/documents/something does not exist"! I checked my Kindle and the only calibre related files are

driveinfo.calibre
kindle_collections_path_cache.calibre
metadata.calibre

and all of them are in the /mnt/us directory.

BTW, after searching for books, when I want to exit FM, it keeps telling me "You have unsaved default setting. Save them now?" I do not make any changes to the default settings. Are these two problems related?

mj

[Doitsu]

When I tried to start the latest nightly build, KOReader crashed after displaying the message "Starting KOReader ...". Here are the contents of the crash log:

./luajit: frontend/ui/rendertext.lua:67: attempt to index local 'face' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
	frontend/ui/rendertext.lua:67: in function 'getGlyph'
	frontend/ui/rendertext.lua:132: in function 'sizeUtf8Text'
	frontend/ui/widget/textwidget.lua:32: in function 'getSize'
	frontend/ui/widget/verticalgroup.lua:17: in function 'getSize'
	frontend/apps/filemanager/filemanager.lua:50: in function 'init'
	frontend/ui/widget/widget.lua:39: in function 'new'
	./reader.lua:112: in function 'showHomePage'
	./reader.lua:209: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'dofile'
	./koreader-base:22: in main chunk
	[C]: at 0x0000bd75

FIXED in koreader-nightly-20140827

[WS64]

Originally Posted by mmjoshi

Yep, that's what it says, "/documents/something does not exist"! I checked my Kindle and the only calibre related files are

driveinfo.calibre
kindle_collections_path_cache.calibre
metadata.calibre

and all of them are in the /mnt/us directory.

BTW, after searching for books, when I want to exit FM, it keeps telling me "You have unsaved default setting. Save them now?" I do not make any changes to the default settings. Are these two problems related?

mj

That "save them now" means that the value in your SEARCH variable is not valid but it foud a working one. Save the settings and then check again what it says in the first variable (without 2) and check the corresponding metadata file.

[trekk]

You have to set the path to

SEARCH_LIBRARY_PATH="/mnt/us/"

Then everything works as intended.