[GUI Plugin] CalibreSpy

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I meant for a book in another library, when I don't want to leave the one that's currently open.

My #1 The Rolling Stone's song : "You can't always get what you want"

If I want a link to a book in another library, I put a 'bookmark' in the #admin_tags column for the current book in library A, go fetch the link from the 'wanted' book in library B, return to the 'bookmarked' book in library A, and do whatever with the link. But, I don't need to do that very often.

When I was adding dozens of books a day to a couple libraries I found CalibreSpy quite useful, but I'm not doing that these days. BTW: prior to CS I used an early version of calibre server, the one that used database table row numbers rather than string searches.

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[MarjaE]

I'm dual booting MacOS and Fedora.

My Calibre libraries are on an HFS+ disk; MacOS can read and write to it, Fedora can only read it.

I'm hoping to use Calibre Spy so I can read my Calibre libraries without moving it to another disk and without 2x versions of Calibre causing trouble for each other.

But when I run Calibre Spy from within Calibre, it prompts for a library, but doesn't let me pick a library.

[BetterRed]

@MarjaE - did you set the default configuration in Preferences->Plugins?

From within calibre itself CalibreSpy can only access libraries that Calibre itself knows of, i.e. they must be Calibre's Quick Switch list.

BTW: DaltonST hasn't logged on since July 5 2023

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[Jirka]

@DaltonST - any chance to get sources? GitHub?
Thanks!

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Jirka

@DaltonST - any chance to get sources? GitHub?
Thanks!

The zip file in post 1 contains the source code.