Plugin ideas... add yours here

[ls0]

Importer BitTorrent File : transform calibre to the database of video torrent, photo album...

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by ls0

Importer BitTorrent File : transform calibre to the database of video torrent, photo album...

Maybe the Media File Importer plugin can do it already, ==>> Index of plugins

If you want to have a library of .torrent files and associated downloads (MP4s, CBZs etc) you don't really need a plugin, calibre can store almost any file type.

Drag-Drop the .torrent file into the book list, that will create a new book line at the top of the list (I would then edit the Title and Author cells to something sensible). Then drag-drop the corresponding downloaded file into the new book's Details panel (on the right).

Added: almost all optional plugins were written by someone who wanted that particular functionality for their own use.

BR

[CrossReach]

Hi,

I'm not even sure if I'm in the right section, but I have a number of epubs I would like to fix. I don't have the technical experience to do it manually, and I would just like a plugin that can address the most common problems and attempt to fix them. There used to be a website but it's gone. I see that Kovid has made something called epub-fix, but I'm at a loss as to how to add it to Calibre or anything like that. The page for it is here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...pub-fix.1.html

[theducks]

Originally Posted by CrossReach

Hi,

I'm not even sure if I'm in the right section, but I have a number of epubs I would like to fix. I don't have the technical experience to do it manually, and I would just like a plugin that can address the most common problems and attempt to fix them. There used to be a website but it's gone. I see that Kovid has made something called epub-fix, but I'm at a loss as to how to add it to Calibre or anything like that. The page for it is here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...pub-fix.1.html

Load the book into the Calibre Editor: Click the debug (ladybug) Icon.
You will see a list of issues. Red needs serious attention. Yellow is a warning.

clickin on an error, list options on the right: Correct all (possible to do automatic) is one of the choices.
Not all can be auto-fixed.
Each error also describes what was wrong. Some are easy to find. Others take a expert (and NO Publisher should be selling ones that bad)

[thiago.eec]

Hi, everybody.

Ace, the Accessibility Checker for EPUB, is a tool developed by the DAISY Consortium to assist with the evaluation of accessibility features of EPUB publications.

It helps content creators to meet the accessibility criteria (epub/WCAG).

@Doitsu created a plugin wrapper for ACE on Sigil but, sadly, has no plans to build a Calibre version.

It would be very nice if someone could build a plugin for the Calibre Editor. ACE is very similar to EpubCheck, in the way that it points out the lines where the problem was found.

Ace website:
https://daisy.github.io/ace/

Doitsu's plugin for Sigil:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3769716

[Veganboyscout]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

While I use a custom column to designate the books I want to read next, I too would love some way to prioritize them. I currently have a custom column for authors that have books in more than one series, I was thinking something like that would do but I do not want to create another column and I cannot use the existing one due to a conflict with original use for the column.

The word "list" does not capture what this plugin should be. Please design a plugin that would allow readers to create a visual "queue" of book covers where they could upvote and downvote books in the queue or simply move books around graphically with the mouse or their finger to manage their queue. Until someobody graciously creates that, this plugin is emphatically NOT "implemented. I'll gladly make a donation for that. Thank you!

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Veganboyscout

The word "list" does not capture what this plugin should be. Please design a plugin that would allow readers to create a visual "queue" of book covers where they could upvote and downvote books in the queue or simply move books around graphically with the mouse or their finger to manage their queue. Until someobody graciously creates that, this plugin is emphatically NOT "implemented. I'll gladly make a donation for that. Thank you!

Wow, way to revive an ancient request. If you had looked in the responses, there was a suggestion of a "reading list" plugin. That was released five days after the request you quoted and emphatically does implement that function.

[Kekay]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Got an idea for a plugin? Feel free to add them to this thread if you haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere. Who knows, if it is a good enough idea someone might even write it for you if you need the help, it has happened before...

Plugin idea discussions

To ensure this thread becomes manageable over time and to help out new visitors to the forum, here is a summary of the plugin suggestions to date from this thread. For anything you see marked as implemented, please go to the relevant plugin thread to discuss further changes or requests.

• Goodreads shelf synchronisation starts here. Implemented as Goodreads Sync plugin
• Duplicates finder starts here. Implemented as Find Duplicates plugin
• DOI Journal numbers starts here
• Tweak/fix epub css and/or xpgt starts here
• Scrape and update a custom field starts here
• Find new releases for a list of authors starts here
• Manage series starts here. Implemented as Manage Series plugin
• Moving files marked read on reader to a read folder starts here
• Mark book to be sent to device on next connect starts here. Implemented as Book Sync plugin
• Saving Kindle APNX files to hard-drive starts here. Implemented as APNX Generator plugin
• Find poor quality covers, invalid metadata starts here. Implemented as Quality Check plugin
• Custom cover generator starts here. Implemented as Generate Cover plugin
• Tag cleaner to consolidate downloaded tags starts here
• eBookwise IMP library transfer starts here
• Plugin updater starts here. Implemented as Plugin Updater plugin
• Look for files with incorrect file extensions like CBZ/CBR starts here
• Search local drive for matching author/books starts here
• Workflow automation to script sequence of various plugin actions starts here
• Upload books to an HTTP server e.g. Cloudreader on iPad starts here.
• Review EPUB metadata and put Calibre convert version into custom column starts here
• Custom views for different tasks starts here. Implemented as View Manager plugin
• Graphical catalog for browsing book collection starts here
• Content server status starts here. Implemented as patch in Calibre 0.7.55
• Compare two books using a diff tool starts here
• Add a publish button to distribute a book on the internet starts here
• Automatically queue books for remote storage starts here
• Search across your library book contents starts here ePub Search in Quality Check plugin
• Integration with BitTorrent starts here
• Value your library like a portfolio getting prices from Amazon starts here
• When restarting Calibre open last book read at last page read starts here
• Mark read items then delete from Stanza starts here
• Store author biography information starts here
• Manipulate Kindle mbp files to reset date read starts here
• Define news recipes at a per device level and allow syncing to a specific device starts here
• Define a to-read list allowing ordering starts here. Implemented as Reading List plugin
• Identify books in your library that have won awards starts here
• Backup your library and plugin settings starts here
• Create a poster from your book covers starts here
• Copy the TOC from a book to a custom field starts here
• Identify book samples starts here
• Edit MOBI headers and metadata starts here
• Store which device for book in custom columns starts here Implemented in Reading List plugin
• Change Calibre skin starts here
• Font changer for ePubs starts here
• Translate foreign languages starts here
• Toolbar button per library starts here
• Automatically download metadata for new books without any starts here
• Metadata from Smashwords, Fictionwise, AllRomance starts here
• Update custom column after conversion starts here
• Copy book information for posting to a blog starts here
• Generate books for an author (including books you don't have) starts here
• ISSN based metadata for electronic magazines starts here
• Metadata from arbookfind and commonsensemedia.org starts here
• BISAC code tagging starts here
• Content comparison for ePub starts here
• Omnibus/Short story collection mgmt starts here
• Top 100/social based list importing/mgmt starts here
• Calibre-server enhancements for administration capability starts here
• Tag cloud generator starts here
• Turkish metadata sources idefix.com/kitap or kitapyurdu.com starts here
• CBR to CBZ conversion enhancements starts here
• Dual language ebook conversions starts here
• Statistics for books (e.g. in tag browser by year) starts here
• Cross library duplicate comparisons starts here
• Managing hierarchical tags starts here
• Update a read custom column from device view starts here
• ComicInfo integration to download metadata and export xml starts here
• Metadata from IMDB for calibre users storing videos starts here
• Switch between save to disk templates when saving starts here
• Find books through Overdrive starts here
• Conversion plugin for Wolfram Computable Document Format starts here
• Control which metadata to import when adding ebooks starts here
• Setup calibre as a shared library with controlled book checkouts starts here
• Merge highlights/notes back into PDF starts here. Implemented as Sony PRS-T1 notes plugin
• Merging multiple ePubs into an omnibus starts here. Implemented as EpubMerge plugin
• Smashwords validator for ebook submission starts here
• Delete source file after conversion starts here
• Find PDFs which have DRM starts here
• Read metadata from FictionDB starts here. Implemented as FictionDB plugin
• Check for duplicated/deleted books on device eject starts here
• Find duplicate series names starts here In progress by kiwidude
• Auto-convert to desired format from calibre content server starts here
• Spook calibre as a Kindle for sync with Amazon store starts here
• Integrate Get Books with Reading List to update a wishlist price column starts here
• Execute command/batch file after downloading to device starts here
• Adding books to a Shelfari account starts here
• Plugin toolbar container to reduce space starts here Implemented in Favourite Menus plugin
• Report unused CSS styles starts here
• Cover fetcher by ISBN from publishers home pages starts here
• Build MobiMetaEditor functionality into calibre starts here. Implemented in Quality Check plugin
• Integrate with kindle.amazon.com for tracking reading starts here
• Download Spanish metadata from www.lecturalia.com starts here
• Download Google images for covers starts here
• Nook SimpleTouch shelf manager starts here
• Dictionary lookup to LEO.org starts here

Hi guys!

I need to say i would love to have a calibre pluguin that could compress Pdfs, and if possible other formats as well. I have a lot of books and want to make the size smaller, one by one would be nice, but in batch would be crazy amazing!
I downloaded and tested a lot of specific apps to compress Pdfs some are good, but for the most part they are not. It would be nice one that could control the size of the images embeddeds, text and all, or maybe automatticaly ajusting in the best way possible...
I know this would be a bit complex but i would love so much!
If you know a good software for compression, Please enlightme, I would be very grateful!

I still need to test if the sincronization between Calibre Pc an Kindle paperwhite realy works...for the new Kindle paperwithe version, because I'm having a really hard time to accomplish this. A simple app that could organize folder into collections...like: History/Learning/Self help/Painting and so on...it would be the best thing ever

I have a Kindle Paperwithe with 5.9.7 firmware, and I know that there is no jailbreak for this version yet...thanks to some good folks on this lovely forum! So I'm feeling I'm out of luck... and does'nt know what to do anymore...because I do not want to just throw the books in there and make collections in the Kindle without the possibility to easily sincronize my Pc with the kindle...
I also do not want the amazon's collections restricted option anymore...so I'm running out of options here lol

I would love your thoughts on this subjects;

thanks in advance

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Kekay

I downloaded and tested a lot of specific apps to compress Pdfs some are good, but for the most part they are not.

Plugins can run command line tools. Were any of the tools that you tested also available as command line tools? If so, which one generated the best result?

[Gary_M_Mugford]

That list represents an amazing amount of work by solution providers. I was going to quote it, but I think it would start meaning about a couple of posts per page if I and everybody else did it. So, my thanks to you all.

IF I had a Christmas Wish, it would be for there to be a plugin to document various Calibre settings in a way that would allow all or part of those settings to transfer from one library to another. For example, I have an incoming library where I process any new books, before parceling them out to my various sub-libraries. One of the things is that I have several people, all with different things they want to search for ... ie. authors, tags, comments-contents, etc. The latter is no issue, but the first two actually require that author or tag to be IN the library before I can add them to their personalized searches. So, if my mother wants to add Janet Evanovich to her search list, I have to HAVE Janet Evanovich in the current library for her to be added to Mom's search. I have to fake in an Evanovich entry, add her as an interested author for Mom, and then remove the ersatz book. I'm constantly being asked to watch for so-and-so's book that was talked about on some show or another. Problem is, I have no way of watching for an author, other than to resort to the ersatz solution, even if the person who is asking is ME!

Documentation would help me see where I might be MISSING somebody's request. And being able to add from either previous documentation of even a text file, would certainly help me maintain my place as the family librarian.

Again, thanks to all for all that they do.

[Kekay]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Plugins can run command line tools. Were any of the tools that you tested also available as command line tools? If so, which one generated the best result?

Hi Doitsu!
Sorry for the late answer, I'm still searching and testing for a good app.

But I already can tell you about some i really liked, the first one was an export option in the free LibreOffice app, in this function you can control a lot of options in the output file. But this one it is doing one by one, i dont know if it is possible to do in batch like i would love.
Others do no accepted a pdf to heavy, some that seemed to work it needs to pay of course. Even in the Adobe Acrobat now needs to pay for the pluguin.

The most part of the apps i found were doing the compression altomatically, I still need to check again every app i download to test , but the one i found that could be done by command was Debenu Quick PDF Library
, but a noob like me on functions like this it takes a while for me to understand...

Images showing how it work on this apps. By command and automatically:

down to up order

https://imgur.com/a/vGSIy30


I dont know if this images could help in some way
I think one of the problems i found is when you put automatically a low value in a scanned file, the text gets hard to read..
I will probably post more details afer i check very well all of them

Any thought just let me know

[Kekay]

Is it possible to integrate a function I use on a step in Photoshop that could optmize the scanned page, image or text within the ebook?
I was thinking about this when i was trying to low down the pdf size of a scanned file, and if i were to do by hand i would need to take page by page of a book, open in Ps select 'best from reduction' option and aply other methodes like sharpen and smoothing to optimize the page with image an text to a certain level that it would not appear so pretty looking, even if the text get just a little bit harder to read, but it would lower the file on a extent that free space for me to put more files in the Kindle. And this probably would opotimize the reading performance as well...

I know...this sound too much work... where i could just throw the books i would read in the week there and let this like this. But when I image the possibility to automatize this steps i would have to do forever...i get pretty excited xD

[compurandom]

Anything is possible, but it might be easier to write that as an external tool.

I'd start by bursting the pages into images and then scripts in photoshop to automate the processing.

[kensutterfield]

I have used Calibre for many years and one of the most useful plugins for me would be a means to Send to Kindle. This would save a lot of time hunting thru the calibre library.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by kensutterfield

I have used Calibre for many years and one of the most useful plugins for me would be a means to Send to Kindle. This would save a lot of time hunting thru the calibre library.

There's no plugin that I know of, but you can email to your Kindle directly from Calibre, and it will automatically convert to the correct format, if needed. Look at the "Sharing" options in Preferences.

Shari