[GUI Plugin] Manage Series

[theducks]

Originally Posted by pkwalton

is there a way to limit or stop calibre from creating a series when there is only 1 book?

Calibre READS data from the book or download. ONLY If there is Series, you get the entry (also a nudge by the publisher that more are forthcoming. BUT those and you won't need any fix )

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by pkwalton

is there a way to limit or stop calibre from creating a series when there is only 1 book?

Um, by not using this plugin?

Sorry, the question is a bit of a non sequitur in this thread. The thread is about discussion of a plugin for easily fixing the series info for a set of books. It isn't automatic, you have to explicitly select the books in the series and run the plugin. You then decide on the series name and the order of the books in the series. Using it for a single book, especially if you don't want to record the series, doesn't make sense.

But, basically calibre puts the series info on a book because you told it to. You probably downloaded the metadata for the book and that included the series info. You can turn that off, but, it is off for all future metadata downloads. Which means when you get the second book in the series, you will either have to manually add the series info for both books, or, enable the series info in the metadata download, download the metadata for both books, and then turn it off again.

In case you can'd guess, I don't think much of the idea. Part of that is that I want all the metadata there and as correct as possible. The other part is that I don't want to have to go back and fix the other book when I get the second in the series. I think the only time I would remove the series info for a single book is if I discovered the second was never published and never going to be.

[pkwalton]

Thanks for the reply.

[mchendriks]

I updated Calibre and after that when I want to manage a serie I get the following error description:


calibre, version 5.0.1
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:'<=' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'NoneType'

calibre 5.0.1 embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Linux-5.4.0-48-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '5.4.0-48-generic', '#52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 10:58:49 UTC 2020')
Python 3.8.5
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: BOL_NL (4, 5, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 7, 2) && Kobo Utilities (2, 11, 5) && Manage Series (1, 2, 9) && Modify ePub (1, 4, 1) && Open With (1, 5, 12) && Quality Check (1, 10, 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.action", line 58, in manage_series
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.dialogs", line 362, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.dialogs", line 587, in renumber_series
TypeError: '<=' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'NoneType'

[JimmXinu]

You should ask questions about plugins in their individual threads. In this case, Manage Series. (Some kind mod might merge this thread into that one.)

I will address your issue over there.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mchendriks

I updated Calibre and after that when I want to manage a serie I get the following error description:


calibre, version 5.0.1
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:'<=' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'NoneType'

calibre 5.0.1 embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Linux-5.4.0-48-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '5.4.0-48-generic', '#52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 10:58:49 UTC 2020')
Python 3.8.5
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: BOL_NL (4, 5, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 7, 2) && Kobo Utilities (2, 11, 5) && Manage Series (1, 2, 9) && Modify ePub (1, 4, 1) && Open With (1, 5, 12) && Quality Check (1, 10, 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.action", line 58, in manage_series
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.dialogs", line 362, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.dialogs", line 587, in renumber_series
TypeError: '<=' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'NoneType'

Unless you are using the 1.5.5 beta of Modify ePub, please uninstall it and try again and see what happens. The Modify ePub plugin was not Calibre 5 when 5.0.1 was released. It's still a work in progress.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Attached

2020-09-27
- ManageSeries: Fix py3 comparing to None.

Originally Posted by mchendriks

I updated Calibre and after that when I want to manage a serie I get the following error description:
...

This is a real error of the 'Python3 changed things because they know better' variety. Not sure how that got through testing.

Attached is a test version that fixes that problem.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Unless you are using the 1.5.5 beta of Modify ePub, please uninstall it and try again and see what happens. The Modify ePub plugin was not Calibre 5 when 5.0.1 was released. It's still a work in progress.

Dude, wrong plugin.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Dude, wrong plugin.

I'm only mentioning it in case Modify ePub was getting in the way.

[ownedbycats]

Is this thread supposed to be out in the main forum?

[JimmXinu]

Not anymore, apparently.

Nobody's reported any other problems, so could some kind passing mod please move the test version in my earlier post to the first post? Thanks.

Changelog:
Version 1.2.10 - 27 Sep 2020
More compatibility with Python 3

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Not anymore, apparently.

Nobody's reported any other problems, so could some kind passing mod please move the test version in my earlier post to the first post? Thanks.

Changelog:
Version 1.2.10 - 27 Sep 2020
More compatibility with Python 3

done did it

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by theducks

done did it

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

done did it

half done it - you didn't delete the zip in post 142, even though gave JX provided a link.

BR

[Minsam]

Hello. I get the following when I click the manage series button.

calibre 5.0.1 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19041')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19041', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (1, 34, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (1, 34, 0) && Author Book Count (2, 1, 9) && Author Book Count Hierarchy (1, 2, 2) && CalibreSpy (1, 0, 82) && Clean Metadata (0, 0, 6) && Clipboard Search (1, 3, 1) && Consolidate All Library Metadata (2, 0, 37) && Count Pages (1, 10, 0) && Embed Comic Metadata (1, 5, 0) && EpubCheck (0, 2, 3) && EpubMerge (2, 11, 0) && EpubSplit (2, 9, 0) && Extract ISBN (1, 5, 0) && FanFicFare (3, 23, 0) && Fantastic Fiction (1, 4, 0) && Fantastic Fiction Adults (1, 2, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 0, 5) && Find Duplicates (1, 7, 2) && Generate Cover (1, 5, 25) && Goodreads (1, 5, 1) && Goodreads Sync (1, 14, 3) && Import List (1, 5, 1) && Job Spy (1, 0, 184) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (1, 34, 0) && KFX Input (1, 34, 0) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (1, 44, 0) && KFX Output (1, 44, 0) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 82, 3) && Manage Series (1, 2, 10) && Markdown Output (1, 0, 3) && Media File Importer (1, 0, 23) && Obok DeDRM (6, 7, 0) && Open With (1, 5, 12) && Quality Check (1, 10, 1) && QuarantineAndScrub (3, 6, 111) && Quick Preferences (1, 4, 1) && Reading List (1, 6, 13) && Search The Internet (1, 8, 0) && Similar Stories (1, 0, 58) && SmartEject (2, 3, 0) && Smashwords Metadata (1, 0, 2) && User Category (1, 5, 5) && View Manager (1, 5, 7)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.action", line 53, in manage_series
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.action", line 104, in get_selected_books
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.book", line 32, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.manage_series.book", line 16, in get_indent_for_index
IndexError: list index out of range

[mchendriks]

I'm new here, I followed the advice remove Modify Epub, Manage series, restart calibre, new install Manage Series and itr worked again. Thanks for the help.