Three little feature requests.

[KenMatsu]

1. CBZ editing
.epub -files can be edited: explode -> edit -> repackage

.cbz -files should have the same functionality. They are afterall just imagefiles that are zipped. I'd need this because Calibre sorts images differently than my previous program (ComicRack).

It's somewhat annoying to have the cover-image not to appear, because it's written in smallcase characters.

2. Page count
This should be easy to implement, atleast for the .cbz's. I have no idea how the other filetypes work so this may not be that easy afterall.

3. Published date
I have several books that have a known year, but month is unknown and vice versa.
At the moment I write the known data and add unk_month or unk_year accordingly.
In my opinion, there should be blank values available for month and date.


I've been using this great program for three months now! I don't have any portable devices, but finally I have a program that organizes my books in Linux

[gweminence]

Epub files can already be edited in calibre.

There is already a plugin for page count, though I don't know if it works with .cbz's -- it does, with epubs.

All of calibre's date fields allow you to pick day, month, and year, so I'm not sure why you think you can't?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by KenMatsu

Published date
I have several books that have a known year, but month is unknown and vice versa.
At the moment I write the known data and add unk_month or unk_year accordingly.
In my opinion, there should be blank values available for month and date.


I've been using this great program for three months now! I don't have any portable devices, but finally I have a program that organizes my books in Linux

"Unknown Month", ("Unknown_day",) "Unknown_Year" are not Valid Date types


Note that Calibre can perform 'date arithmetic' searches on date (field type) values

1/1/101 (localized) is a assigned as a 'Unknown Date' marker.

[KenMatsu]

Originally Posted by gweminence

Epub files can already be edited in calibre.

*sigh* this _is_ what I stated. I requested similar feature to handle .cbz -files.

Originally Posted by theducks

"Unknown Month", ("Unknown_day",) "Unknown_Year" are not Valid Date types

Well they should be. I have several books that have known year, but no month anywhere.
What's the official way to deal with these kind of issues?

I mean, I can't just tag them 1/1/101, for I do know the year (or month in some cases)


Why not include (day:0,) month:0 and year:0 values? and then omit them in those arithmetic searches (if they bother)?

atm, I must add a false month, which is not accurate at all (and I like accuracy ).

[theducks]

Originally Posted by KenMatsu

*sigh* this _is_ what I stated. I requested similar feature to handle .cbz -files.




Well they should be. I have several books that have known year, but no month anywhere.
What's the official way to deal with these kind of issues?

I mean, I can't just tag them 1/1/101, for I do know the year (or month in some cases)


Why not include (day:0,) month:0 and year:0 values? and then omit them in those arithmetic searches (if they bother)?

atm, I must add a false month, which is not accurate at all (and I like accuracy ).

Calibre is built upon standard tools. Thedevelopers don't have to wory about dealing with non-standard when writing code in other places.
Dates follow date rules
Strings follow string rules.

a 1/1/YYYY is your best choice when only the Year is known.
Setting the day to 1 when only Month of a year is Known.

the 1/1/101 is = to the default(Unknown/not set)

[Pinecone]

Just pick a random month.