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[patred]

Dear All

Haven't see this yet: I would like to have a plugin that collect metadata from www.stripinfo.be and/or www.bdtheque.com to make it easier to index french and dutch comic books

Thank you

Cheers

Patred

[treadlightly]

I don't know if this exists already, but I'd like a plugin to sum the contents of a custom column of numerical data in a Virtual Library. This would help keep track of my "Purchased but Unread" book balance without having to export to .csv format.

Please let me know if the ability to do so is already implemented! Thanks.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

I don't know if this exists already, but I'd like a plugin to sum the contents of a custom column of numerical data in a Virtual Library. This would help keep track of my "Purchased but Unread" book balance without having to export to .csv format.

Please let me know if the ability to do so is already implemented! Thanks.

Is purchased a Tag?

If you have a VL for not read and search on the Tag for Purchased: the count will be at the bottom

<#purchased> of <#not read>

[treadlightly]

Originally Posted by theducks

Is purchased a Tag?

If you have a VL for not read and search on the Tag for Purchased: the count will be at the bottom

<#purchased> of <#not read>

It's not the number of books that I'm looking for, but the sum total of my custom column "Cost".

[theducks]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

It's not the number of books that I'm looking for, but the sum total of my custom column "Cost".

I don't tell my wife how much I spend on books and neither does she. Don't ask, Don't Tell (or keep records )

You will need a spreadsheet. I don't think calibre even has the core utilities to do this (sum)

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by theducks

I don't tell my wife how much I spend on books and neither does she. Don't ask, Don't Tell (or keep records )

You will need a spreadsheet. I don't think calibre even has the core utilities to do this (sum)

I don't either. Some sort of user configurable statistics screen might be handy. But, maybe it can be done using a catalogue? At the least, it should be able to produce a CSV file with the appropriate data.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by theducks

I don't tell my wife how much I spend on books and neither does she. Don't ask, Don't Tell (or keep records )

You will need a spreadsheet. I don't think calibre even has the core utilities to do this (sum)

Won't program language (python) have the + operator? I think so. I don't think that the main problem would be the + operator but getting all the books to apply it.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Won't program language (python) have the + operator? I think so. I don't think that the main problem would be the + operator but getting all the books to apply it.

It is the database engine Summary tools that is needed. (think doing this on 1000's of records)

The basic (a+b) math is needed/ probably used in many places.

[BMaster31]

I have been looking all over the forums and the internet for this, but have yet to find a good solution. I have people I share my Calibre content with through email (connect and share), and there are a couple cases where those people want the content in multiple formats. Like EPub (for the phone) and AZW3 for their reader. I currently have to use the 'send to multiple recipients' function and specify the format manually for their 'second' format. Just wondering if there is an easier way to do this, or if there is an plugin to always send all the formats listed for a single email address.

Thanks!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BMaster31

I have been looking all over the forums and the internet for this, but have yet to find a good solution. I have people I share my Calibre content with through email (connect and share), and there are a couple cases where those people want the content in multiple formats. Like EPub (for the phone) and AZW3 for their reader. I currently have to use the 'send to multiple recipients' function and specify the format manually for their 'second' format. Just wondering if there is an easier way to do this, or if there is an plugin to always send all the formats listed for a single email address.

Thanks!

Send them bums EPUB and let them convert with THEIR Calibre, since they have the decision (what to read upon) problem

[kcmccombs]

i would like to see more stuff on audio books and have calibre search audible .com

[theeye23]

I would like to request or suggest a plugin to read attributes from AutoCAD files like DWG and DWF so we can add our sample AutoCAD drawings.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by theducks

Send the bums EPUB and let them convert with THEIR Calibre, since they have the decision (what to read upon) problem

Agreed:thumbup:

[nettle]

Hi,
I would like to create a plugin for automatically downloading new issues from issuu.com and sending emails with the PDFs to kindle.
issuu.com has an API for getting issues: http://developers.issuu.com/api/ and bookmarks.
However, each user will need to store their API key/secret in the plugin settings, as the API allows authentication for (allmost) all calls.
Do you think the plugin will be useful to you, and do you have any security concerns?

[rracoon01]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

@schuster -[*]I mentioned on another thread an idea for a "Tag Cleaner". It would use a similar approach to that in the Goodreads Metadata download plugin of defining a mapping between input tags and tags you want to use in your library. You would have a gui allowing you to customise and control which tags map to each and discard any you do not have a mapping for. It would work across metadata sources (including the ability to remap the Goodreads tags) as you would do it as a separate step after your normal Ctrl+D download. So if you are frustrated with getting a dozen variants of "sci-fi, scifi, science fiction" this would automatically resolve them rather than manually retyping the tags yourself.[/LIST]

I heartily second this idea for Calibre. I have about 1,200 books in my library and have just painstakingly rationalized the over 400 tags downloaded with the metadata down to a useful 120. Having done that I now obviously want to keep the list clean. Ideally the add books and edit metadata code should check incoming tags against a user maintained database of tags (an extension of the tag manager?) and 1) map incoming tags to p referenced tags via the database, 2) discard incoming tags that are in the database but do not map to a new tag, and 3) alert the user to new tags that are not in the database with appropriate options on how to deal with them. The last item might have intelligent suggestions like if some variant of "SciFi" comes in that is not in the database, it might spot the similarity to "SciFi" and optionally add a new mapping item to the database. As noted in the original post, this is similar, but more expansive than, the GoodReads plugin.

If I ever learn Python, I would look into it myself. The latest language I have learned since my assembler language and Fortran days (yes I am an old fart) is Visual Basic.

Please and thanks.