04-11-2012, 05:18 PM | #226 | |
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We agree on wishing for horizontal tap zones or even better "tap anywhere to go forward, swipe to go back" (and best of all - all of this: more options for everyone). Until then I hope for the 2:1 and 1:2 shortcuts to shorten the actions needed to switch by half. |
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05-04-2012, 12:52 PM | #227 |
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Hey! I would like to help translating the plugin to Spanish. How can I do that?
-- Edit: Well, I just read the whole thread and found the NL translation, so I translated the tags based on that. I hope the new translations can be implemented soon. Note: The attached file has the translation Last edited by shouled; 05-04-2012 at 01:27 PM. Reason: Found! |
05-06-2012, 09:06 AM | #228 |
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Jaden told me about possibilities for koboplugins.ini:
[Reader] tweakFooter=1 showBrowser=1 showLibrary=1 showSleep=1 Works well. But library search would be nice too. Is that possible? And: Is it possible to add a clock to the page number at the bottom? |
05-09-2012, 06:00 AM | #229 |
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Thanks for the translations! There's already a spanish translation, and I don't speak enough (any) spanish to judge which one is better. Maybe you could compare your new translation with https://github.com/ah-/koboplugins/b...es.qm?raw=true and create a really good one .
I also merged the dutch translation, and it would be great if someone with dutch as a language option on their kobo could test if it works. |
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9909942/koboplugins.es.qm |
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05-10-2012, 01:31 PM | #231 |
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First of all, thanks for all the great work in making these tweaks. I was just about to sell my Kobo Touch and put the money towards a Kindle Touch because I cannot stand the fact that there is no way to organise files.
I have many gigabytes of PDF books and articles and I am basically stuck at a limit of 50 on the reader at a time. It is simply too hard to locate anything when there are more. My question is: does the collections / bookshelves work with PDF files or epub only? Of course, I will try it myself but just wondered if there were any major issues with this before taking the plunge. A suggestion, linked to organising: would it be possible to create a tweak that allows the Kobo to sort by filename instead of metadata? I name my pdfs relevant to content but the metadata is often unrelated. That would mean renaming every single file on Calibre, manually, and I'm not prepared to do that. Another suggestion: enable highlighting/note taking on pdfs. I think these are the features that would change the Kobo from a toy to a researcher and scholar's companion. I state that I am also a newb. Thanks again for all the work you've put in. |
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It would be very easy to add this to Kobo to generalize its trivially simplistic search which could still work the same if given only one string. Quote:
The shelves have been left unenabled for a reason, as someone said. They appear not ready for use other than in trivial cases. (Also perhaps the tweak doesn't enable all the functionality). It would be easier to make a program on your pc to create the shelves after figuring out how they were represented in the sqlite database. Quote:
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That being said, it would be nice to have an entire scholarly library on the Kobo. There is enough space. But a lot more would be needed than just what you have mentioned. Although it would not be that hard to develop it. The annotations, already stored in one database, would have to be searchable, and groupable into groups that go across books, and serve as a general hypertextual index into the collection. A researcher/scholar would have to link together sections from many books along with his comments on them. A simple version of this, really, would not be that hard. If they made the nickel source open, I could do a basic version in a month. For now, though, at least, we need to be able to easily READ pdfs. It is not possible, is it? How do you read a pdf now, compared to an epub? I find it horrible: first you have to enlarge it to the max in landscape mode and then painfully pan it up and down on the one page, and finally pan over to hit the advance-page region. I hope you agree that the first thing they have to do is to fix this, and make it work in maximally panned landscape mode exactly like epubs with a single tap to advance in the document, no panning required ever on a typical document. Last edited by BensonBear; 05-10-2012 at 05:25 PM. Reason: Typos |
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05-10-2012, 06:51 PM | #233 |
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I didn't think bookshelves would work with pdfs because some features work on epubs, like highlighting and note taking, and not on pdfs. Alas, I can't get the shelves working on either.
I assumed that shelves were a way to organise files so that you could search for a file in a group rather than from a list of all files on the KT. I have tried the update but it doesn't work that way on my KT. I open the shelves and there is one untitled shelf that says '6 books'. I can edit, rename, delete, but the name I give it doesn't appear after I save it. I can add/remove items from the shelf and save the changes, but it doesn't remember the changes. When I open the shelf, it gives me the same menu as the library. Perhaps because it is the only shelf on the KT. I was hoping for a 'create shelf' option, and to be able to add files to it but I guess that is what you mean by 'trivial cases'? Don't you mean that would require changing all the metadata to incoporate the info in the file name? Why would you have to rename the files? It would not be hard to extract the information from the filenames and stuff it into the metadata automatically. Calibre's "epub-meta" can easily be used in a simple shell script. Yes, that is what I meant. But I don't know how to run a shell script in calibre's epub meta. I tried in the past to edit metadata in calibre so my files are not called things like 'template.p65' but the KT didn't recognise the changes that I thought I had made correctly. I don't want to spend time manually changing file data, even for 50 files that is a lot of time. I saw that the Kindle keyboard version doesn't read metadata, it uses the file names that you have used (that's how my friend's was set up anyway). Because of the poor organising options, I can only use the KT for leisure reading and not work. In that sense it feels like a toy. When I heard about a device that ran a version of linux, I hoped that it would have the capabilities to be a researcher's companion (or be more open for programmers to be creative). I am at my desks a lot, but sometimes in the library, or working elsewhere. Having a proper scholarly library to hand would be a fantastic tool, looking things up I wasn't sure about etc from my pocket sized device. It saves me from being in a library, and having to carry different sets of books and prints of pdf articles around for each work session. The Kindle Touch has collections enabled so a large library is workable, you can find stuff easily on it. I heard it also lets you highlight and take notes in pdfs. Reading pdfs compared to epubs is tedious, yes I think fixing it is a priority. But I would like to be able to find pdfs as well as read them easily! Amazon offer a conversion service for Kindle, which I hear works very well on text only pdf articles, which is what I mostly have. I have very little programming knowledge but I assumed that nearly all of the above mentioned features would be straightforward to add. It is very frustrating. |
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Sony readers have collections sorted by meta data. If this is such a must have feature maybe you have the wrong e-reader? PRS-T1 also handles pdf books well.
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ebook-meta -t "The title" -a "The author" filename it will set the title and author accordingly. Now if you can just strip that data out of the filename, you can set the metadata automatically. For example, I extract the title from various all my converted SEP html files and stuff them into the epubs with the one line for $x in `echo *`; do ebook-meta $x/$x.epub -t "`sed -nr 's/<title>(.*)<.title>/\1/p' $x/index.html`"; done If you tell me the format of the file name containing the info, and maybe give me a list of filenames for testing, I can probably whip you up a command in a few minutes that will work on your entire collection. (Which reminds me: before you mess around with shelves very much, I would recommend backing up your sqlite database ) Quote:
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Benson Bear: Thanks for taking the time out to suggest a way around the metadata. But a) I don't know what / where the sqlite database is and (b) I don't understand a lot of the suggestions you made. Like this one:
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filmo: yes, I suspect I do have the wrong e-reader. I wish I had the time to learn enough about programming to make the KT closer to it. But had I known this simple and elegant device was flawed in so many ways, I would definitely not have bought it. |
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PS - if you want to start a thread on http://getsatisfaction.com/kobo I will join you and others in support.
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The Kobo page is here: https://getsatisfaction.com/kobo
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Later: I've found that the shelves work fine for epubs, but oddly not kobo epubs such as any of the free classics downloaded from the book store.
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I assume you are being sarcastic about the facebook capabilities! (And another rather stupid thing is the Reading Life and the ability to tell everyone about how many books you have read). I did not know about that get satisfaction site. I will look there although it seems to have a rather quixotic name. Last edited by BensonBear; 05-11-2012 at 11:40 AM. Reason: Typo |
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