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eBook-Bot (rename covers & metadata, inherit covers)


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My problem was that I love using the MB android app for browsing my ebooks, but since they are grouped by Author\Booktitle, none of the authors show a poster, what I wanted was a way to inherit a cover from one of the books, and copy it to the author folder so I could at least have one of the books covers for every author.

 

So after struggling with this situation myself I made a .bat file to make this simple, 

 

 

What is it?

its a menu based batch file, that allows you to do the following

 

1. Rename all the book covers to folder.jpg for MB to easily read.

2. Rename all the metadata files to metadata.opf for MB to easily read.

3. Copy a folder.jpg from a book folder, up to the Author folder so while browsing books in MB, the author will have a poster.

4. It also has a test mode that will allow you to see what files will be renamed/copied before making any changes to your ebook files.

 

What kind of folder structure should you have?

 

Here's an example  (though not required in this exact naming scheme, but you need to have the format Rootfolder/Subfolder/Bookfolder for this to work without any side-effects)

 

Books \ Author \ Booktitle \ folder.jpg

                                           metadata.opf

                                           ebook.epub

                          Booktitle2 \ folder.jpg

                                            metadata.opf

                                            ebook.epub

 

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zgy9la2xeapb44r

 

To run this, put the .bat in your root ebook folder - "Books" in the example above, and double click to run it.

 

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Redshirt

Nice work! It's a shame calibre forces a directory structure that it seems a lot of users don't want.

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shaefurr

Nice work! It's a shame calibre forces a directory structure that it seems a lot of users don't want.

 

Ha yeah no kidding, calibre is great in its own way, but the metadata management for ebooks is no where near what it is for movies/tv

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shaefurr

As a note, right now in test mode it just outputs the results to the window, if anyone wants the full list I can change it to output to a log.

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Ha yeah no kidding, calibre is great in its own way, but the metadata management for ebooks is no where near what it is for movies/tv

You Got Skillzzzz  :D

It's Perfect, ty

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Jasoon

shaefurr, still using you app and I still think its gr8....

 

Can you possibly put a option in to rename all the book covers to folder.jpg for MB to easily read and keep the original cover file.

 

I love using MB Books but I also use calibre so I tend to find I have to go back and re-do all the cover art, just wondering if adding the above would be possible??

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shaefurr

shaefurr, still using you app and I still think its gr8....

 

Can you possibly put a option in to rename all the book covers to folder.jpg for MB to easily read and keep the original cover file.

 

I love using MB Books but I also use calibre so I tend to find I have to go back and re-do all the cover art, just wondering if adding the above would be possible??

 

Wow sorry never got a notification for this thread.

 

Anyway I hacked this together in like 10 minutes, its messy but I tested it and it seems to work fine.

 

Copy the ebook-bot.bat and the getbkfolder.exe from the zip to the root of your ebooks, then run as usual and choose option A. It will ask you for a temporary folder to use to save the original covers, then it will rename them as usual, then it will add the originals from the backup folder. So you'll end up with each book having a folder.jpg and the original cover from Calibre or what not.

 

Sorry I meant to add something to remove the temporary directory afterwards, just delete it when you're done running the .bat

 

I'll get it working better when I have more time.

 

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/?75mw14vjv3uboev

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