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[GUI Plugin] Book Sync **Deprecated**
This plugin is now deprecated and will no longer be supported. Instead all of its functionality has been incorporated into the Reading List plugin, which does everything this plugin does plus a number of other features.
This plugin allows you to add books to a special list in Calibre which is automatically sent to your ereader device the next time it is connected. This is a very convenient way to flag books for your device as you add/process/search for them in your workflow, without requiring your device connected at the time. As soon as your device is next plugged in, the list of books can be automatically copied to your device the same as if you had selected them and chosen "Send to Device". Alternatively you can turn off the automatic syncing and instead manually sync your list of books when it is convenient to you. Main Features of v1.3.7:
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02-17-2011, 03:38 AM | #2 |
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Hi Kiwidude,
You're a real good dude Joop |
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02-17-2011, 04:27 AM | #3 |
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This sounds like a great feature but I run both a sony 650 and a Kindle and would like to have different lists to send to each. Can it be personalised in some way to cope with two devices
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02-17-2011, 04:49 AM | #4 | |
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Unless someone more knowledgable corrects me I suggest raising a ticket in the Calibre bug tracker for an enhancement request to allow a device being specified when sending news (if there isn't such a ticket already). Once/if that gets fulfilled, I will enhance the plugin to support this too. |
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02-17-2011, 11:55 AM | #5 |
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Hey kiwidude,
I installed this plugin on my calibre .0.7.45, on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, I got the toolbar Book Sync added, and I am able to add books to the sync list, but when I connect my Black Pandigital Novel, it clears the the sync list but no books are move to my device...Calibre says: connected PD Novel(Kobo) Just thought i would bring it up |
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02-17-2011, 12:51 PM | #6 |
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I am getting the same results as jtintle.
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02-17-2011, 01:21 PM | #7 |
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I worked with it a little more and got it to work, I had to go to Preferences/Behavior, and make sure the box is checked next to Automatically send downloaded news to ebook reader.
Sorry I posted my problem without testing everything.... My new question is it possible to set which disk it automatically sends the book to? I've tried to set the Set default send to device action to Send to storage card A, but it keeps sending it to the Main device....would that have to be a news setting change? EDIT: After doing a search on default send, I found that Calibre sends news to which ever storage has the most room available...guess I should search before I ask questions... Thanks for all the hard work... Last edited by jtintle; 02-17-2011 at 01:46 PM. |
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02-17-2011, 04:33 PM | #9 | |
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Plan B is that I could allow this plugin to switch in/out the current sync list. So you could define multiple device lists in the plugin. The add/view actions would display a submenu if you have multiple devices allowing you to choose which list. This is all behaviour I would do if Calibre did have multiple device news support so is reusable. However this is still a kludge, because you would need to specify which of your device lists is the "active" one. I would have on the plugin menu a list of your defined "device lists" and a checkmark next to whichever you last selected as the "active" device. When you plug your device into Calibre, it is going to download the last selected active list. Also at the time your news is generated, that will go on whichever list is active (though I could add the ability to move items between lists from the view dialog). So if after carefully preparing your "Sony" and your "Kindle" sync lists, if you forgot to switch lists in the menu before you plugin the device or generate news, the wrong list of stuff will get sent to that device. I have no control/validation I can put in place since that is all done within the Calibre code and this is a plugin it knows nothing about. That's a pretty painful limitation. However it might be the only "option" a user could have for a while until/unless Calibre is changed. If people think it is still worth the effort despite the serious limitation above I'll add it to the plugin. |
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[EDIT] Kovid has closed the ticket indicating the actual behaviour is as follows: Quote:
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02-17-2011, 07:31 PM | #12 |
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Sorry about the statement on the storage terms, I must of read it wrong, but thanks for looking into it, and great job on the plugin
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Release: 0.7.45 [11 Feb, 2011] New Features
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02-21-2011, 02:13 PM | #14 |
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I seem to have broken this plugin.
Here are the steps that caused the problem. 1. Load a PDF into Calibre. 2. Convert the PDF to Mobi. 3. Add the Mobi to the Book Sync List. 4. Remove the PDF from Calibre. (Ops.. this removes the Mobi book too). 5. Look at the Book Sync list. Then you get: TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable I've tried uninstalling the plugin and reinstalling. It's still broke. Is there any way to delete the sync list (there were two other books on the list before I hosed things up)? I suspect that the list is corrupt since it contains an entry to a book that I removed from Calibre. When I re-added the book, Book Sync was still broke. |
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There is clearly a "bug" in Book Sync when displaying the contents of the list. I'll post a new version in a few minutes so that any time you try to view the list it checks each id is still valid and removes any that are not, as is the case when you have deleted the record. I had assumed integrity of that list when deletes occur but clearly there is not. I suspect that if you were to connect your device now, any faulty ids would be flushed out and you should no longer have a problem. This exact same "flaw" would occur for creating and then deleting news, but because there is no way to display the list of pending news items without this plugin you are not able to see invalid items in your list. |
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