jlegewie/zotfile

Support for calibre?

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#47 opened on Oct 30, 2012

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Description

Hi,

I use calibre to manage ebooks for my ereader. It would be nice if zotfile, after (or instead of) pushing a file to a particular directory for "Send to tablet", would call the calibredb program, e.g.

calibredb add --author "Jane Doe" --title "Foo" foo.pdf

I've had a quick look at the source and it looks like this could be added to the end of the sendAttachmentToTablet function. I can look into it, but it might require abstracting sosendAttachmentToTabletme code (e.g. calling an executable).

My ereader does not support annotating texts so that is not an issue for me. I don't know if it is an issue for others.

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Implement a calibre integration in the sendAttachmentToTablet function by calling the calibredb executable with metadata (author, title) from the Zotero item. Ensure the executable is in PATH or configurable. Test with sample files.
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