Call for testers

[RJ_Cruze_Jr]

Okay, the "add books" bug is dead -- long live the bug

I downloaded Crown of Slaves from the Baen Free Library in HTML, MS Reader, MobiPocket/Kindle, and RTF format (for a random sample). I tidied up the meta information and converted them all -- no errors. Then I saved them, loaded them into my PRS-505, and opened them up. Works fine on my end

Now I'll see if I can find a .pdf to play with...

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by RJ_Cruze_Jr

Okay, the "add books" bug is dead -- long live the bug

I downloaded Crown of Slaves from the Baen Free Library in HTML, MS Reader, MobiPocket/Kindle, and RTF format (for a random sample). I tidied up the meta information and converted them all -- no errors. Then I saved them, loaded them into my PRS-505, and opened them up. Works fine on my end

Now I'll see if I can find a .pdf to play with...

Glad to hear it

[JeffElkins]

Is there still an sqlite database associated with calibre? If so, where is it stored?

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Glad to hear it

No problems here thus far either.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by JeffElkins

Is there still an sqlite database associated with calibre? If so, where is it stored?

yeah it's called metadata.db and is stored in the ebooks folder

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

yeah it's called metadata.db and is stored in the ebooks folder

I haven't been hit with any bugs since my initial install found the libxml2 problem, and I'm happy to report that calibre is leagues faster than previously. This is (and has been) a quality piece of software. Thanks.

[illadel]

Now working fine on my desktop. I renamed /opt/calibre dir from my prior install to /opt/calibre.bak and moved the beta off my desktop to /opt/calibre and now all is well on OpenSuse 10.3.

I'll check out Kubuntu tomorrow, it looks like I used the easy install on my notebook though and I'm not exactly sure how to make it work without introducing the distro neutral install and doing the rename/replace thing as I did with OpenSuse distro.

Oh, you asked for output of "ls -l Qt*". It returned

ls: cannot access Qt*: No such file or directory

when typed as cap but when typed as "ls -l qt*" output is

drwxr-xr-x 2 todd users 4096 2008-08-30 18:07 codecs
drwxr-xr-x 2 todd users 4096 2008-08-30 18:07 iconengines
drwxr-xr-x 2 todd users 4096 2008-08-30 18:07 imageformats

Again, I'll try out OpenSuse tomorrow cause if I did tonight my gf would kill me

[illadel]

meant Kubuntu, everything from prior post was regarding OpenSuse. Tired.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Who does

Well... I prefer it to Linux... although Linux is ok.... but if you want to run Linux why spend the premium to buy Apple hardware?

BOb

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by JeffElkins

I really like Apple hardware, but I prefer Linux. I've got my office mini set up to dual-boot Linux/OS X with the default being Linux. Either partition can run XP via VMWare, so I've got all my bases covered

As I said before... I don't see paying the Apple premium for their hardware if you are going to run Linux. You can usually buy a lot more for you money and still run Linux on it.

I am new to Apple. Had my iMac for a month or so now. The problem I have is they don't have any mid-price stuff. While the iMac is nice... they don't sell a smilar spec machine without a monitor. They charge $600 for the equivalent monitor to what my iMac has... so they should sell just a PC for about $900. Oh well.

BOb

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by illadel

Now working fine on my desktop. I renamed /opt/calibre dir from my prior install to /opt/calibre.bak and moved the beta off my desktop to /opt/calibre and now all is well on OpenSuse 10.3.

I'll check out Kubuntu tomorrow, it looks like I used the easy install on my notebook though and I'm not exactly sure how to make it work without introducing the distro neutral install and doing the rename/replace thing as I did with OpenSuse distro.

Oh, you asked for output of "ls -l Qt*". It returned when typed as cap but when typed as "ls -l qt*" output is Again, I'll try out OpenSuse tomorrow cause if I did tonight my gf would kill me

You have to install the beta in the same location as the binary install (that implies you have to install the binary install first). You should need to rename /opt/calibre just extract the contents of the beta tarball into the directory so it overwrites the old files.

[JayCeeEll]

Just did a clean install on Windows XP SP2 in a Virtual PC session and on the initial run the convert/compact database dialog (I forget the wording) just sat there for 5-10 mins before I got bored and canceled it.

calibre still seems to work, so only a minor bug/feature!

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by JayCeeEll

Just did a clean install on Windows XP SP2 in a Virtual PC session and on the initial run the convert/compact database dialog (I forget the wording) just sat there for 5-10 mins before I got bored and canceled it.

calibre still seems to work, so only a minor bug/feature!

Just to be clear, you did not have an old installation of calibre before installing the beta?

[JeffElkins]

One thing I'm seeing that's hard to get used to is the folder organization. Calibre is dumping everything in one top level folder, organized by author name. My personal system for folders is hierarchical: genre->author->series - I'm sure others have their own methods. I'd like to see more flexibility on Calibre's part here.

On the technical side, I've had zero problems importing mobi-formatted books from my collection. I'm still scratching my head regarding .oebzip books.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by JeffElkins

One thing I'm seeing that's hard to get used to is the folder organization. Calibre is dumping everything in one top level folder, organized by author name. My personal system for folders is hierarchical: genre->author->series - I'm sure others have their own methods. I'd like to see more flexibility on Calibre's part here.

On the technical side, I've had zero problems importing mobi-formatted books from my collection. I'm still scratching my head regarding .oebzip books.

What's the problem with the .oeb.zip books?

As for folder organization, there are an infinite number of ways to do this. Back when I was first designing the GUI I used to keep my books in folders too, but I found a rigid, hierarchical tagging system (which is what folders are) to be to limited for my needs, which is why I wrote the GUI to browse my book collection. That said, adding support for different folder organizations is not too difficult, but it's not something I personally have any motivation for.