03-27-2009, 03:13 PM | #31 | |
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Still, since to me the concept of having a unique id is silly on the face of it, I don't really care what is put into the package identifier, so I am quite willing to change the behavior of the calibre GUI to use a UUID as a package identifier. |
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03-27-2009, 03:45 PM | #32 | |
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I use a similar approach with my hand-made ePUBs, but with the date of creation instead of a number. |
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03-27-2009, 04:40 PM | #33 | |
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An example is google? Some of their books are pretty complicated if you take a look at them. Granted their content is lacking due to auto generated OCR. But their books are very snappy. =X= |
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03-27-2009, 05:43 PM | #34 | |
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As for chapter changing being slow, as far as I know that time depends only on the complexity of the markup/size in each chapter, which is not under calibre's control. |
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It can be catastrophic if one day we wish to handle such things such as shared annotations as we won't be able to rely on the identifier to identify a book (which is the whole purpose of an identifier). |
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03-28-2009, 07:33 AM | #38 | |
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I doubt that a reading software would ever fail to open or render such a book (it wouldn't make any sense) but it could fail to associate other things with the book (bookmarks, last position, annotations).
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I use the same ID in all the Mobi books I create (because I copy/paste the same OPF file for each book) and so far have not encountered any software in which this causes problems. All implementations of the Mobi reader use a ".mbp" file, based on the book's filename, to store annotations, bookmarks, etc.
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Indeed. I was simply noting that both ePub and Mobi are based on the Dublin Core Metadata standard which mandates a unique book ID, but which, in reality, doesn't actually appear to use it for anything in particular.
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I know that, I just don't understand why.
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