LibrarianSync: Kindle collections builder

[mergen3107]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

you're still on FW 5.9.6.1? factory or production?

No, right after jailbreak I did:
Upgrade to 5.9.6.1 (customer), and
Upgrade to 5.9.7 (customer).

Both done through Update Your Kindle via *.bin files.

[NiLuJe]

Okay, confirmed, and tracked down to a bad interaction between Python 2, and the current unreleased requests/urllib3 versions I'm using.

Next snapshots will be fixed, but they won't come until I'm done with other things, so, in the meantime:

In /mnt/us/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py around L392 (basically just above the offending unicode_is_ascii call), insert:

        if is_py2:
            host = unicode(host)

Honoring the whitespace *exactly* (this is Python, indent > everything, as it should!).

[fllc]

Thank you!!!

Everything now works as expected on my PW4.

[mergen3107]

@NiLuJe

WOW!! Thank you so much! That did the trick.

I attach models.py and a screenshot showing white spaces as they should appear (somehow Notepad++ auto-indents with tab spaces when pasting, not white spaces).

P.S. I only tested --update, --delete, and --folder options for ./generate_collections. They all work and Kindle shows proper output 'Done in XX s'.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Okay, confirmed, and tracked down to a bad interaction between Python 2, and the current unreleased requests/urllib3 versions I'm using.

Next snapshots will be fixed, but they won't come until I'm done with other things, so, in the meantime:

In /mnt/us/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py around L392 (basically just above the offending unicode_is_ascii call), insert:

        if is_py2:
            host = unicode(host)

Honoring the whitespace *exactly* (this is Python, indent > everything, as it should!).

Interesting. Curious, was this a recent change? Because I'm still using the Nov 22 snapshots. Lol, I'm lazy so I don't update my add-ons unless I'm experiencing an issue.

[NiLuJe]

@ilovejedd: Yep, the urllib3 commit in question is dated December 7 .

[tessa33]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

In /mnt/us/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py around L392 (basically just above the offending unicode_is_ascii call), insert:

        if is_py2:
            host = unicode(host)

Honoring the whitespace *exactly* (this is Python, indent > everything, as it should!).

I'm a total newbie so I'm not exactly sure what this means or how to make the change. Would someone mind posting a step-by-step on how to make this edit?

Thank you so much!!

[NiLuJe]

@tessa33:

@mergen3107 posted the pre-tweaked file a couple posts ago, just unpack it at the USB root of the device (like you would install a KUAL extension, for instance) .

(You do need to have installed Python first, though ).

[tessa33]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@tessa33:

@mergen3107 posted the pre-tweaked file a couple posts ago, just unpack it at the USB root of the device (like you would install a KUAL extension, for instance) .

(You do need to have installed Python first, though ).

Well, I unzipped @mergen3107's file all the way down to the models.py file and placed it in the USB root of the device. Not sure what else to do, but when I try to use Librarian Sync to create collections I get an error message that 'something went very wrong'.

Since this is PW4, I would normally install an add-on by putting it in the mrpackages folder, then ;log mrpi - should I try doing that?

And honestly, thank you so much for your time, guidance, and patience! I really am pretty new to this whole world, but am doing my best to learn!

[NiLuJe]

@tessa33: Yeah, by trying to drill into the models.py file manually, you lost the directory structure, and you ended up putting the models.py file itself into the USB root .

Instead, we want to *honor* that directory structure: just "extract to" (or something to that effect that should pop up in the contextual menu of a zip file if your right-click it) the zip to F: and that should do it .

[tessa33]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@tessa33: Yeah, by trying to drill into the models.py file manually, you lost the directory structure, and you ended up putting the models.py file itself into the USB root .

Instead, we want to *honor* that directory structure: just "extract to" (or something to that effect that should pop up in the contextual menu of a zip file if your right-click it) the zip to F: and that should do it .

Well...darn, I thought I was being so slick extracting it, too lol.

OMG OMG OMG OMG it worked!! YAAAAAS! I am quite literally dancing around my living room!!!

Thank you SO very much!!

[booklover6]

I have a little mystery here.

I just got the PW4, JB, added Python, and installed LS. However I never got a KUAL menu entry. I tried installing LS on my Voyage, and everything works perfectly! So I copied the LS folder from the Voyage and put it on the PW. Now I have a KUAL menu entry. I run the program on Calibre just fine. When I attempt to rebuild or update from the LS menu in KUAL, however, it says "Rebuilding collections from Calibre on the bottom, for quite a long time, and then the line on the bottom of the screen (still in the LS menu) says:

Entries 1 - 4 of 4 78183a5 (20181209,a) PW4

And no collections show when I return to the Kindle library.

Any guesses what that line means? I haven't seen it referenced here.

I missed a step, I backed into KUAL and then the message showed.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by tessa33

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And honestly, thank you so much for your time, guidance, and patience! I really am pretty new to this whole world, but am doing my best to learn!

Just hang in here, there is actually a lot less to learn than it may seem at first.


While the norm here is for every developer to work on what interests them, and they usually work alone, rather than in groups ....


People here follow the "Principle of least surprise".

(I.E: The piece with the straight edge and blue sky goes at the top of the jigsaw puzzle.)


The things that can be added to your Kindle from here follow two or three different patterns of packaging and installation procedures.
You just discovered the most common way a KUAL extension is installed.
So you are already at least 1/3 of the way along the learning curve.

[NiLuJe]

@booklover6: Possibly depends on what you means by "Installed LS" .

I'd recommend doing it manually from a download/checkout or my GitHub tree, as the .bin hasn't been repackaged for quite a while.

Note that this currently requires the very latest Python snapshot, plus a hotfix for it that was posted in #409.

[barsanuphe]

Well. I see I've missed a lot of activity here .

Thanks a lot to NiLuJe & knc1 for keeping LibrarianSync alive and providing support! I'm glad people still find it useful.

@NiLuJe: I've just merged your latest GitHub PR. Do you want me to clean up the first post and link to your fork as the new reference? If so, feel free to tell me what you'd like the post to mention.