Calibre (famous free book manager) plugin !!!

[Mohamed Selim 24]

What about adding new option to link calibre to emby as the plugin to link emby to kodi so we can have all our books ready to download via interface of emby .If we want, we can link the calibre libraries to emby, so we can use all the abilities of calibre of conversion and cover fetching etc then display the resultant libraries in emby

I think this can be added by one of three ways:

1-Connect to calibre content server

2-use the db file found in every calibre library and read it to present the book without interfacing with calibre at all but using ready made libraries directly

3-parse the opf files of books to create the database of books of Emby

Edited October 31, 2017 by Mohamed Selim

[maegibbons 1287]

If you write it we will use it.

 

Nice idea.

 

Krs

 

Mark

[Baenwort 118]

This would be a very nice feature. I tend to re-encode my ebooks with my corrections but I could see how this would be handy for people who do not or if it expanded Emby's abilities in regards to ebooks.

[Protektor 12]

Emby will now import, quiet limitedly, your Calibre directories. I wish it would import metadata.opf data like the book description, author, genre, etc. I also wish the interface would use one of the Javascript open source ePub readers out there as well so you could read them via the web or choose to download the book, which you can do now. I also wish there were more sorting options for the books that it could read in from the .opf file.

 

Javascript ePub readers

https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/

https://github.com/futurepress/epubjs-reader/

https://readium.github.io/

 

You could also use the Goodread API and Amazon API which Calibre uses, but you could use them to download more info about the authors much like Emby does for actors already. You could then also use the database to show every book by that author in the database. The .opf also has the genre tags so you could see all "Science Fiction" books or "Fantasy" or whatever tags are used in the .opf/books. It should read the description of the book from the .opf file and show it when you click on the book to give you more information about the book.

 

Goodreads API

https://www.goodreads.com/api

 

One of the many Amazon API toolkits

https://www.npmjs.com/package/amazon-book-search

 

Various Book APIs out there

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/53-books-apis-google-books-goodreads-and-sharedbook/2012/03/13

Edited December 11, 2017 by Protektor

[Luke 42077]

Great info, thanks !

[Protektor 12]

I should also mention there are multiple Comic Book Readers out there in Javascript so you could read your comic books online. You could also use one of the Calibre comic book add-ons to import in to Calibre as well.

 

Web Based Comic Readers

https://github.com/balaclark/HTML5-Comic-Book-Reader

https://github.com/codedread/kthoom

https://github.com/afzafri/Web-Comic-Reader

http://comicbook.yanapax.com/

 

The Calibre Comic Book add-on's are here.

https://github.com/xchewtoyx/calibre-comicvine

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=264710          [Add meta-data to CBR/CBZ files]

https://github.com/dickloraine/EmbedComicMetadata                          [Add meta-data to CBR/CBZ files]

 

 

Seems most people are using the ComicVine API to pull down metadata for their comics and keep them organized.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api/

Edited November 30, 2017 by Protektor

[negativzeroe 80]

+1 - I'd be cool with this if we literally just had Emby act as a proxy and have Calibre still do the work.

[Luke 42077]

Emby Server 4.9.1.8+ will now have a book reader in the web app for the following formats:

• EPUB
• MOBI
• FB2
• CBZ
• PDF

Please try it out once available and report your experience in the Testing Area of the community:

Thanks !