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Book's Amazon page URL: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BEH39ZQ Book found on Amazon! Gathering recommended book metadata... An error occurred finding related book list page on Amazon.com (they might not list any). Continuing without them. |
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I haven't tried closing the book first, will give it a go. Out of interest, what does the achieve?
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I can't say for sure how the newer versions handle it, but it's possible that the database is getting left open while the book is open, causing issues when it tries to suddenly use a new one. Closing the book should close the database connection, I would hope. At the very least, a reboot. I can't think of any other reason you'd have to completely remove the book from the Kindle and re-add it. |
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First of all I would like to congratulate about this outstanding application and the effort put on it. This is my first post but I have spent days reading your posts. Some weeks ago, I bought my first Kindle, Voyage version, and although I am not a great reader I have really enjoyed it and the first fears about buying something expensive that I would not use, quickly disappeared because I have used it a lot. A few days ago I discovered Calibre,learned how to use it, and know I finally built my first X-Ray for a book. I wasnt easy but its done. From this first experience, I would like to bother with some questions: 1.- The X-Ray Builder showed and error with the Chapters. If you open the file with the the Notepad its empty. How do you create Chapters? I saw the post info, but what is "Name", "Start" and "End"? 2.- Goodreads have only 9 characters of the book for which I created X-Ray. But in the last pages of the book there is a list of all characters that appear in the book. I was mistaken, because I believed that adding all that names in the "Alias" File, would make them appear in the X - Ray structure. But that didnt happened. The same 9 were showed even I populated the Alias File with more than 30. Is there a way to add more characters to the data given by Goodreads so as to make them appear in the X - Ray structure? I am interested in that information due to the fact that in books with lots of characters, X - Ray is very useful to remember a name read some time ago. 3.- My mother languaje is spanish. Even though I have no problem with English Books, I prefer to read Spanish versions. I own a very famous saga of Books in paper version and english languaje. Now I have it in my Kindle in spanish from a Spain Editor. The problem is that Spain tends to change the characters names trying to translate them. So, the names of the english version are different compared with the Spanish one. Is it posible, to use the Alias File to put the Spanish names next to its English names, so as to make X-Ray work properly considering that Goodreads use the English version? Thanks for your time and effort... |
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Basically, the name is just the name of the chapter (Chapter 1, or whatever other name it might have), start is the location that the chapter starts within the file, and end is the location where it ends. I normally use Notepad++ to grab the locations. I look for the chapter in the book, place the cursor there, then highlight from that point back to the beginning of the book and the "Sel" value on the bottom bar of N++ is the offset. Quote:
Previously you could just edit Shelfari to add any characters, but now with the shift to Goodreads it's not an option. You have a couple options:
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However, if you go the XML/TXT file route, you can put the names in their Spanish form there. Since it wouldn't be using Goodreads anymore, the builder wouldn't know about the English ones at all! Thank YOU for making use of the program! |
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Good Day,
Sorry to bother again...I was wrong about a "success" in creating X-Ray File...That is only partially right. I noticed two problems... 1.- The first one is not so complicated... I have tested with two books and made more than 15 X-Rays for each of them, testing different options...50% of that attemps I get the X-Ray button (upper left side of the Kindle) but if I press the button (touch it) it highlight but nothing else happens... I mean...the X-Ray screen doesnt show up. All last Tests have resulted in the inhability to enter X-Ray button and I dont understand what I have changed. 2.- This problem is a disaster...I realized that only the first X-Ray screen works. I mean, it shows the Goodreads Characters and the number of times they appear in the book. But if you press a name so as to enter the mentions, nothing happens and the book hangs up, only be able to get out by pressing the Home Button. But then, entering the Book again and pressing the X-Ray Button yields no result, I mean after that hung up, you cannot enter X-Ray again. The only way is to Restart the Device. During the process of building the X-Ray no error is shown, only the Authors Biography which is not found. Moreover, I use the Metadata and ANSI Amazon Number from the English version even noting that the book is the Spanish Version. The Book appears in Amazon Spain, but the X-Ray Builder doesnt accept that ID. Maybe there is a problem using an Spanish Version with English Metadata? Quote:
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No...I am the one to give the thanks for YOUR time and SUPPORT.... Thanks again... |
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The chapters weren't being detected because they are called "capitulo", which I suppose I should look into as far as supporting multiple languages. The new version will at least detect chapters for this book. I also noticed that you had an alias for "Rodrigo Borgia" that was just "Vi" which might have also caused some issues (as well as a space before 'Borgia' in one). There is an issue with the builder matching whole words that I need to work on. Short words like 'Vi' will end up matching many incorrect places such as 'visita' and 'evidente'. For the issues with getting the X-Ray to open after putting a new one on the Kindle, I updated my firmware and started experiencing the same thing. Sometimes it would display an error, sometimes it just wouldn't open the X-Ray at all. By opening a different book, then going back to the one I'm working with, it seemed to let me open the X-Ray again. Seems like the database isn't getting closed properly, even when the book is closed. |
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I really appreciate your help, time and work. I understand your conclusions and commentaries. I will test taking them into account. Only one question...you mentions a versión "g" being uploaded. Where can I find that version? Or are you still working on it? Best Regards... |
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After two days of testing version "g" with the same Book I mentioned via PM, I reached several conclusions and questions. 1.- Now the Chapters work fine. Thanks for that. 2.- Sadly enough, I tried more than 15 times with version "g", changing lot of variables (options in your program, options in Calibre, start from cero, etc) with no success. All the procedure worked fine, without errors (only the author one) but X-Ray button doesnt worked after pressing it and nothing appeared. 3.- What solved the problem was the metadata setting. As the book is in Spanish I tried to use all variables in Spanish. I always used Amazon.com English Metadata due to the fact that it was the only way X-Ray Builder doesnt warn about ANSI Code because Spanish Version doesnt have that ANSI Number. I decided to bypass all the Warnings of your program, set Amazon Spain in your options and also set Spain in Calibre Options, getting Spanish Metadata for the book. Even though X-Ray Builder warned me about invalid ANSI Number, it finished the procedure and that was the only way X-Ray was showed properly. Of course I started all from the begining, even converting the original book with Calibre. You were right saying that X-Ray Builder by itself search for info in English version if it doesnt find it in the Spanish one. Again, in my ignorance about your great work, I still have the doubt if there is some kind of problem with mixing Spanish Books with metadata or options in English. 4.- My next step was to learn how to include all Characters of the Book using a Text File. As you may have noticed about the Book I was working with, in the last pages there is a complete list of Characters with a brief description about them. So I Copy-Paste the List in the Text File and gave the Structure you explained ("Character" Line, the name below, and the description below). I used X - Ray Builder with that file, and it was a Complete Success. All Characters were showed in X - Ray, with the description I included and number of mentions to the right of the Name. 5.- Even though what I mentioned in Number 4 was a success, I came with two problems. The Spanish accent (´) in names (Ex: "Capitán") was showed with a small question mark ("Capit?n") so no match appeared about that Book Character. So I erased all accents ("Capitan" instedad of "Capitán") and tried. To my surprise it seems that X-Ray Builder doesnt consider accents because even if it was "Capitan" instead of "Capitán", X-Ray showed the name correctly and also the mentions. 6.- The Aliases were another problem but I fear it has no solution. In a Book you may have this Characters:"Enzo Thorton", "Enzo Saliere" and "Enzo Cordi". If in each of them you use "Enzo" as Alias, you get Mixed mentions. I mean,for example, "Enzo Thorton" shows mentions of himself but also of Saliere and Cordi. The same for "Enzo Saliere" and "Enzo Cordi". The solution is not to use the Alias "Enzo". But if you do so, you will loose mentions of each Character due to the fact that you not always call, for example, "Enzo Saliere" by "Enzo Saliere"...it can be called many time only as "Enzo" and the same things goes for "Thorton" and "Cordi". The same can happen with brothers and sisters...As I see, and I beg you to correct me if that is no true, there is no way to solve this... Or you get mixed mentions for Characters with same names, or you get less mentions if you use only their Complete names. From my point of view it isnt a great problem and I prefer mixed mentions that I can discard after reading, instead of less of them. 7.- The Third Tab in X-Ray, the one that in my Kindle is called "Términos" (maybe "Terms" in English) sometimes shows "There was an error". In my last test it only appeared "there is no one found" in the actual page and in the Book. What is the purpose of this Tab? Can be edited? 8.- Analysing a book in English I bought from Amazon.com I noticed in X-Ray an additional Tab called "Images" in which screenshots of the Book were shown. I suppose this isnt implemented in X-Ray Builder but I believe is not a bad option with books (specially fantasy ones) that shows a Map in the first pages, as a way to quicky access to that Map. 9.- Is there a way to Edit Author Biography so as to avoid the Error shown in X-Ray Builder when is working? 10.- When I started the book (the very first time), it showed the Goodread info box about the Book and its configuration. It seems that even using a text file for characters in X-Ray Builder (and no marking the Goodread option) it uses info from Goodreads. It seems I wrongly assumed that the text file bypasses Goodreads. Well, I am going to work with another book, to see if it has similar results. I will mix Spanish Book with English metadata to see if X-Ray doesnt work again, and then I will use Spanish Metadata. I am also going to create a text file after searching for the Characters in the Web. Thanks for your time and patient reading all my stuff. I also sent a PM with the files used in my final test. Best Regards... Last edited by HawkJacq; 07-20-2016 at 02:37 PM. |
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