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Calibre
Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 17:14
by art1go
calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
calibre server allows to share books and manage subscriptions for newspapers an RSS. It can send them to a Kindle or any other eReaders over the Internet.
I think it would be great to have such a feature in Bubba.
http://calibre-ebook.com/
/tom
Re: Calibre
Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 18:11
by RandomUsername
Trouble is that Calibre requires a GUI (uses QT IIRC).
It's open-source though so feel free to port it
Re: Calibre
Posted: 27 Jan 2011, 09:13
by art1go
Well maybe
Re: Calibre
Posted: 29 Jan 2011, 04:35
by Cheeseboy
Trouble is that Calibre requires a GUI
Well, yes and no.
If you start it with
it will try to start a GUI.
If you start it with
it doesn't.
The problem is you need the GUI to configure it, import books and stuff. The web interface doesn't let you do that.
But this is not un-doable. The Bubba2 and B3 are perfectly able to display a GUI over the network to a Xserver.
I have also tried installing xfce4 on the B3 and connecting to it with vnc, and it works. So it's definitely doable.
Also, the author of calibre is a very approachable guy. If enough people ask him to incorporate the full functionality into the web interface, leaving a headless installation, he might implement it.
Or he might give you hints on how to migrate your library from your GUI workstation to your headless server.
EDIT:
Or just google for it:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76513
Re: Calibre
Posted: 16 Jul 2011, 10:41
by RandomUsername
Anyone tried this yet and got any news (good or bad) to report?
Was thinking about having a go myself.
Re: Calibre
Posted: 16 Jul 2011, 11:46
by Cheeseboy
Hi!
I just tried it, and it didn't go too well, I keep getting these errors:
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1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
It only happens on the bubba, not on Ubuntu.
I noticed that the Python version on my bubba is 2.6.6 and on my Ubuntu box it is 2.6.5 - don't know if this is relevant. I did some googling and found a post suggesting it had something to do with limitations of the shell, so tried it in csh, ksh and bash - same result.
Best regards,
Cheeseboy
Re: Calibre
Posted: 16 Jul 2011, 11:59
by RandomUsername
Thanks Cheeseboy.
I might give it a go myself when I get a few moments.
Re: Calibre
Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 17:19
by art1go
RandomUsername wrote:Anyone tried this yet and got any news (good or bad) to report?
Was thinking about having a go myself.
I had a look as well and it seems messy. Although I might be wrong, I felt it was a lot work for something which will end up to require a lot of resources (cpu).