This post is for Kindle and Cybook users

[amalthia]

for a long time Sony users were able to use the program Calibre to manage our ebook library, and convert LIT, Mobi, html, rtf/word documents into LRF or Epub. It's a GREAT program. I use it all the time.

Now Kindle and Cybook users can use Calibre too. I checked the changelog for the newest version. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/Changelog and it appears that they've added Kindle and Cybook detection and the ability to convert files to mobi. (I'm sure the first version will probably have bugs but what I'm going to test tonight is batch convert and see if I can make mulitple mobipocket files)

I'm rather excited about this development. :)

Comments

[mrs-norris-mous.livejournal.com]

Are there enough people out there for me to really try and make my sugar quill module released into the main core ?

It Can work reliably for lrf but epub is a right pain !

[amalthia]

I'd really want it to work! :) Right, though still not sure what you mean by main core.

I'm also having difficulty replicating my results for LRF into ePub.:(

not sure what css I need to use but I LOVE the way my LRF's come out and I've been having difficulty figuring out what I'm doing wrong with epub. I figured maybe it was still in the beta process.

[amalthia]

I was wondering if you could do something similar with efiction archives? I've always wanted to be able to download stories when author's posted something new? or be able to keep track of the Recently Added page? Basically, any site that can host an rss feed we should be able to make reciepes for, right?

Sugar quill runs on another type of archiving software though. :( I wrote to the admin and she said someone else built it for them.

[mrs-norris-mous.livejournal.com]

Given the choice would you prefer me to spend some time next week, working on the sugar quill and epub ( Which basically means stipping as much formatting out until the prs-505 stops crashing ) or having ago at another site ?

The html on the sugar quill is really nasty as they let the authors just paster raw html into the page so often they have multiple headers etc. And Microsoft word produces evil html and style sheets as well.

Given enough time a script could be produced to do something useful with any site. Its the enough time thing thats the problem.

I have been working on doing a good job at transforming comics, for the last couple of weeks.

[amalthia]

I get the feeling any site you go to will have formatting issues all over the place. :) I'm in no rush. I also think it's best to finish one project before starting another. So SugarQuill it is.

As for comics have you had any experience with manga's??? i was going to try the .cbr function and see how good the LRF's come out. :) But I think I still have the Ultimate Spiderman series on my computer somewhere...just not sure how well those would translate to black/white.

comics

[mrs-norris-mous.livejournal.com]

I looked into the comic2lrf and I have very good eyesight and I can read the comics and they do look good. However sometimes the text is too small, After hassling kovid about lrf and epub. I discovered that the rendering engine does the right thing for landscape mode pdfs ( eg you can get more pixels in ). So I did the work for comic2pdf which i think you can guess what it does....

( It requires reportlabs which kovid's not going to bundle until verison .5 which is going to be in the next month or so ), but it does work :)

I have got a version yet to be integrated which will take a directory and generae a pdf with table of contents where each directory is a sub table of contents and each file is a table of contents entry, its very sweet I just need to do the merge back in with the main code.

Re: comics

[amalthia]

Okay I'm really looking forward to seeing this when it's merged. :) It's funny you'd think they'd market e-ink devices to manga/anime/comic fans but they haven't really. It's the right screen size...and if people who are already working full time can figure this stuff out on their free time imagine what someone could accomplish if they worked on this full time...okay I take that back they'd probably bring out something like Vista...