calibre friday preview releases

[chaley]

Looks like this commit, in particular the changes to spell/dictionary.py.

I was able to make it fail by creating a user dictionary. Replacing line 40 with what it was fixes it.

self.words = {(w, langcode) for w, langcode in kwargs['words']}

I wonder if any of the other changes in that commit will have the same problem.

EDIT: I'm not making a PR. There is some weirdness with character encoding for the file and I don't want to break anything. I converted it to UTF8 to test it, which changed lines 464 and 469.

[kovidgoyal]

This should fix it:
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...6be85fd10723fb

I'll review that commit more carefully later

[chaley]

Preview 7.26.100 is available. The commit list is here.

[PeterT]

Hmm.. I see kovid is working on a kepubify option. I do hope he knows that there already is a go based tool called kepubify (https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and https://github.com/pgaskin/kepubify) and that using the same name will cause a degree of confusion.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Hmm.. I see kovid is working on a kepubify option. I do hope he knows that there already is a go based tool called kepubify (https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and https://github.com/pgaskin/kepubify) and that using the same name will cause a degree of confusion.

I disabled the KePub output plugin and converted to KePub and it seems to have worked. I've not loaded the eBook on my Libra 2.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Hmm.. I see kovid is working on a kepubify option. I do hope he knows that there already is a go based tool called kepubify (https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and https://github.com/pgaskin/kepubify) and that using the same name will cause a degree of confusion.

I think he is adding "kepub" as a supported format. The name "kepubify" shouldn't be visible anywhere. Of course I might be completely wrong.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I disabled the KePub output plugin and converted to KePub and it seems to have worked. I've not loaded the eBook on my Libra 2.

I'm sure he isn't done. He has done 5 related commits since the preview.

[kovidgoyal]

Yeah it's a long way from done and no the name kepubify is internal only.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by chaley

I think he is adding "kepub" as a supported format. The name "kepubify" shouldn't be visible anywhere. Of course I might be completely wrong.
I'm sure he isn't done. He has done 5 related commits since the preview.

The name KePubify is only visible on the commits. I've not seen it otherwise.

[kovidgoyal]

Released version 7.26.101 with the major updates to Kobo support. Now the Kobo driver auto converts EPUB to KEPUB when sending books to the device for the on device copy. This can be configured in the driver preferences. calibre has also gained the ability to view, edit and convert the KEPUB format.

calibre also now prevents five third party Kobo plugins from loading as their functionality is now present in core calibre. Kobo Touch Extentded, KEPUB Input/Output and KEPUB metadata reader/writer. If you had any settings customization done in the Kobo Touch Extended plugin, you will need to manually migrate that to the builtin Kobo driver.

[ownedbycats]

I plugged in my Kobo. It showed up on computer but Calibre ddn't change to on-device view. I restarted Calibre and it still didn't change. It worked before I updated.

EDIT: I checked Ignored Devices and Kobo was listed under disabled plugins.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I plugged in my Kobo. It showed up on computer but Calibre ddn't change to on-device view. I restarted Calibre and it still didn't change. It worked before I updated.

EDIT: I checked Ignored Devices and Kobo was listed under disabled plugins.

Yes if you previously disabled the builtin driver you will need to re-enable it.

[ownedbycats]

I think this issue has been there a while, but tooltip for "ignore collections" seems to be wrong.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I think this issue has been there a while, but tooltip for "ignore collections" seems to be wrong.

How so? I've never used that option so no idea what its supposed to be doing.

[gbm]

When I right click on a Book--with a Kpub-in the book list, then click on Edit Book get the following error:

calibre, version 7.26.101
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>ValueError</b>:'KEPUB' is not in list

calibre 7.26.101  embedded-python: True
Linux-6.8.0-54-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.39 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '6.8.0-54-generic', '#56-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Feb  8 00:37:57 UTC 2025')
Python 3.11.5
Interface language: None
EXE path: /opt/calibre/bin/calibre-debug
Successfully initialized third party plugins: ACSM Input (0, 1, 0) && Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (2, 20, 0) && DeDRM (10, 0, 9) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (2, 20, 0) && ACSM Input Plugin GUI Extension (0, 1, 0) && Baen (1, 1, 0) && Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 6) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 5, 0) && EpubMerge (3, 2, 0) && EpubSplit (3, 10, 0) && Goodreads (1, 8, 2) && Hyphenate This! (0, 1, 3) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (2, 20, 0) && From KFX (2, 20, 0) && KFX Input (2, 20, 0) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (2, 14, 0) && KFX Output (2, 14, 0) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 7) && Kobo Utilities (2, 18, 4) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 5) && Quality Check (1, 13, 16)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre/gui2/actions/tweak_epub.py", line 82, in tweak_book
  File "calibre/gui2/actions/tweak_epub.py", line 113, in do_tweak
ValueError: 'KEPUB' is not in list

I can edit kpub from the book detail panel, everything else seems to be working as expected.

bernie

[DNSB]

The tooltip hasn't changed in this update and it is very wrong.

AFAIR, the "Ignore collections" is a list of collection names on the device that calibre will ignore. It will not add or remove books, and if an ignored collection is empty, calibre will not delete it.

i.e. if you have a collection on your Kobo called 'scrumpet', calibre will not touch that collection.