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tabascoffee · 07-28-2014, 02:06 PM

A plugin to let me know when one of my titles matches a current freebie listed in Amazon Prime or in Kindle Unlimited.

...because I just want to be notified of the matching retail .azw or .mobi (or whatever is being used these days)...

*cough*

eschwartz · 07-28-2014, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by tabascoffee

A plugin to let me know when one of my titles matches a current freebie listed in Amazon Prime or in Kindle Unlimited.

...because I just want to be notified of the matching retail .azw or .mobi (or whatever is being used these days)...

*cough*

Done!

[GUI Plugin] Overdrive Link has grown to support a variety of borrowing sources, and the plugin maintainer was quite fast about adding support for Kindle Unlimited. (Prime Owners Lending Library has been supported for a while.)

BetterRed · 07-31-2014, 08:28 PM

Plugin for Calibre Book Viewer that would show content when hover on a reference number - see attachment. The split viewer layout is not proscriptive, it was the simplest way to illustrate,

I'm thinking of author foot notes published in the book - not reader annotations.

BR

eschwartz · 07-31-2014, 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Plugin for Calibre Book Viewer that would show content when hover on a reference number - see attachment. The split viewer layout is not proscriptive, it was the simplest way to illustrate,

I'm thinking of author foot notes published in the book - not reader annotations.

BR

like KPW2 and the popup footnotes.

That would be very cool to have, as an enhancement request not a plugin.

kovidgoyal · 07-31-2014, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by eschwartz

That would be very cool to have, as an enhancement request not a plugin.

Popup footnotes are already on my todo list.

eschwartz · 07-31-2014, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Popup footnotes are already on my todo list.

Cool!

BetterRed · 07-31-2014, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by eschwartz

Cool!

I wouldn't like a popup presentation if it hid the main text in any way. A split screen would allow me to see main text and the footnotes.

BR

tabascoffee · 08-01-2014, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Done!

[GUI Plugin] Overdrive Link has grown to support a variety of borrowing sources, and the plugin maintainer was quite fast about adding support for Kindle Unlimited. (Prime Owners Lending Library has been supported for a while.)

I tried to use the function, but it didn't like kwun in the other field. Search failed.

But I love the idea that's it's so close to being a reality!

eschwartz · 08-01-2014, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by tabascoffee

I tried to use the function, but it didn't like kwun in the other field. Search failed.

But I love the idea that's it's so close to being a reality!

Change it to "kuwn".

Kindle Unlimited with Narration.

JSWolf · 08-01-2014, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BetterRed

I wouldn't like a popup presentation if it hid the main text in any way. A split screen would allow me to see main text and the footnotes.

BR

If the popup was just another window, then you can resize it and move it as you want. That would work.

BetterRed · 08-01-2014, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

If the popup was just another window, then you can resize it and move it as you want. That would work.

Providing it was also dockable.

BR

Vortex · 08-03-2014, 01:40 PM

I have thousands of old ebooks with no metadata, title, author or ISBN. I can find out what most of the books are by manually copying a random sentence from within each book and then use that to search on Google books, Amazon or Bookfinder. Has anyone thought of making a plugin to do this automatically?
Thanks.

theducks · 08-03-2014, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Vortex

I have thousands of old ebooks with no metadata, title, author or ISBN. I can find out what most of the books are by manually copying a random sentence from within each book and then use that to search on Google books, Amazon or Bookfinder. Has anyone thought of making a plugin to do this automatically?
Thanks.

When they do, they will have created a perfect AI.

The human mind can do amazing associative and intuitive actions.

The current computer tries to mimic some of these by doing complex searches (like Google) that take rooms of equipment to let it happen at a click of a mouse.

How did you manage to save all these with no logical plan (file and/or folder names)?

Vortex · 08-03-2014, 05:11 PM

They're what's left after sorting and cleaning a huge ebook collection, nearly all old formats like txt, html, rar, rft, doc, so have no metadata other than what Calibre tried to glean from the file names.

Try a random text search in Google books or Amazon, you'll be really surprised how accurate they are, there's no need for fancy AI. Here's an example:

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&...=10&gws_rd=ssl

The best google books search page is this one: http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search paste the random text from your unknown book into the 'Exact Phrase' box and search.

For Amazon the best search page is: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Searc...node=241582011 paste your random text (inside quotation marks) into the 'Keywords' box and search.

This same technique can also be used in Bookfinder: http://www.bookfinder.com/?mode=adva...=&currency=EUR

Could this not be automated the same as the search for Metadata and Covers?

BetterRed · 08-03-2014, 06:35 PM

@Vortex If you chose the text on which to search then it's highly likely that its not truly random - you would have used your intuitive good sense. I noticed your example used a complete sentence. I tried a fragment of 9 words from Bleak House and Google failed, when I expanded it to a complete sentence it succeeded.

I suspect a PI with some heuristics to extract the first sentence would probably have a pretty good chance of finding books at Google.

The Amazon and Bookfinder links did not present me with a place to enter a sentence.

BR

07-28-2014, 02:06 PM	#601
tabascoffee Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Kindle	Amazon Prime and Unlimited Matches A plugin to let me know when one of my titles matches a current freebie listed in Amazon Prime or in Kindle Unlimited. ...because I just want to be notified of the matching retail .azw or .mobi (or whatever is being used these days)... cough

07-31-2014, 08:28 PM	#603
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,550 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Plugin for Calibre Book Viewer that would show content when hover on a reference number - see attachment. The split viewer layout is not proscriptive, it was the simplest way to illustrate, I'm thinking of author foot notes published in the book - not reader annotations. BR Attached Thumbnails

08-03-2014, 06:35 PM	#615
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,550 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Vortex If you chose the text on which to search then it's highly likely that its not truly random - you would have used your intuitive good sense. I noticed your example used a complete sentence. I tried a fragment of 9 words from Bleak House and Google failed, when I expanded it to a complete sentence it succeeded. I suspect a PI with some heuristics to extract the first sentence would probably have a pretty good chance of finding books at Google. The Amazon and Bookfinder links did not present me with a place to enter a sentence. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-03-2014 at 06:38 PM.

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08-03-2014, 01:40 PM	#612
Vortex Groupie Posts: 171 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Likebook Mars	I have thousands of old ebooks with no metadata, title, author or ISBN. I can find out what most of the books are by manually copying a random sentence from within each book and then use that to search on Google books, Amazon or Bookfinder. Has anyone thought of making a plugin to do this automatically? Thanks.

08-03-2014, 05:11 PM	#614
Vortex Groupie Posts: 171 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Likebook Mars	They're what's left after sorting and cleaning a huge ebook collection, nearly all old formats like txt, html, rar, rft, doc, so have no metadata other than what Calibre tried to glean from the file names. Try a random text search in Google books or Amazon, you'll be really surprised how accurate they are, there's no need for fancy AI. Here's an example: https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&...=10&gws_rd=ssl The best google books search page is this one: http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search paste the random text from your unknown book into the 'Exact Phrase' box and search. For Amazon the best search page is: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Searc...node=241582011 paste your random text (inside quotation marks) into the 'Keywords' box and search. This same technique can also be used in Bookfinder: http://www.bookfinder.com/?mode=adva...=&currency=EUR Could this not be automated the same as the search for Metadata and Covers?