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#41

eLibrary Manager / Re: Issue with adding books [d...

Last post by kweckwor - January 06, 2020, 04:00:37 AM

If a book file path changes as a result of the folder restructure (which I assume it would), then the progress will be lost. The book progress is associated with a specific book and changing a book file path effectively results in a new book.

I understand that you are using eLibrary Manager Basic, but just so you know, in the full version, book position for the last 20 books opened (configurable, so it can be set higher) is saved based on book title and author(s). In that case, if a book file path changes, then as long as the title and authors remain the same, the first time the new book is opened in the reader, it would open at the last reading position (and therefore restore the progress).

So I guess the bottom line is that, in the basic version, there is no way to easily carry over book position and progress if the book file is moved to a new folder in the device file system. In the full version, you could carry over the last 20 opened book positions (and progress) as long as each of those books is opened in the reader which would restore the last position.

#42

eLibrary Manager / Re: Issue with adding books [d...

Last post by errantaspiration - January 05, 2020, 10:57:15 PM

I'm afraid I have a follow-up question.

Is there a simple way to preserve or carry-over book progress when restructuring folders? I can pen and paper it if need be, thought I'd ask though.

#43

eLibrary Manager / Re: Issue with adding books [d...

Last post by errantaspiration - January 05, 2020, 10:06:52 PM

Thank you for responding so quickly. I double checked the doc folder for duplicate files but there don't appear any.

Howev, after mussing with scan settings a bit, I think you've hit on it, and it's something to do with the fires extremely funky way of organizing things (in one instance, it seems to have stored 8 separate copies of a book across my device?? strange.).

I'll try an explorer utility and see if I can fix the duplication there, it figures it's the kindle.  Thing's a menace.

Thank you again for the promptness and the great app! 

#44

eLibrary Manager / Re: Issue with adding books [d...

Last post by kweckwor - January 05, 2020, 02:34:23 PM

On re-reading the original post, I wanted to mention a couple of extra things.

By "onboard file explorer", you might have meant an external file explorer from which you can launch the reader of your choice, as opposed to a "file explorer" view in the eLibrary Manager app itself. You're correct that an external file explorer will likely allow you to launch my reader. I don't know what file explorers are available in the Amazon App Store, but I would suspect there should be a number to choose from.

One more thing to mention is that, by removing a book entry from your eLibaray Manager library does not delete the underlying book file. It simply removes the app record for it. Performing a scan again will add the record back. So if you don't want a book to reappear on every scan, you would need to delete the underlying book file so a subsequent scan won't find it. You can do that with a file explorer on the device, if you have one installed, or if not, you should be able to do the same by connecting your device to a PC over USB so that you see the device shared storage as a drive on your PC.

One of the fundamental principles of my app is that it never touches book files on your device. It simply allows you to have access to files that have been externally copied to the device, but it never updates or deletes those files.

#45

eLibrary Manager / Re: Issue with adding books [d...

Last post by kweckwor - January 05, 2020, 02:22:15 PM

Each entry in the app library represents a separate file with a distinct file path. If you're seeing what looks like duplicate entries for the same book, then that probably means you have multiple files for the same book on your device. You can see the file path in the Book Information view, so check that for each of the duplicate entries to see if the File Path value is different for each duplicate. By default you should see File Path in the Book Info view, but if not, you can enable that in the eLibrary Settings "Book Info Properties" setting by adding "File Path" to the selected properties.

With respect to your mention of "an onboard file explorer", the full version of the app includes a Book Info Browser which allows you to browse your library based on different metadata/book info criteria. One browsing criteria available is File Path, so that gives you a way to navigate the file system to see the books loaded in your library. This feature isn't available in the Basic app though.

#46

eLibrary Manager / Issue with adding books [dupli...

Last post by errantaspiration - January 05, 2020, 02:35:23 AM

I've been running into an issue and I can't seem to find anything in the documentation about it, so thought I'd ask here.

I'm on a 5th gen Kindle Fire, ftr, using the basic version of the app available through the kindle app store.

So what I'm running into is this:
The fire is super restrictive and doesn't allow some (many) files to be recognized and opened by programs, seemingly by caprice, which forces the exclusive use of the scan feature - as a note if there is an onboard file explorer I can't find it, but that would solve it too I guess, I didn't see anything noting that in the documentation either tho - ANYWAY.
Yeah. Copies of a bunch of em, every time. I remove and do clean up but as my.library grows it becomes less manageable, and I thought I should mention it since maybe there's a simple fix I'm overlooking. Or I found a bug, either way.

It's not even all my books is funny thing. Really curious if anyone has any idea why that might be.

Thanks for any help or insight, appreciate it.

#47

ePub Reader / Re: Letters in night mode are ...

Last post by kweckwor - January 03, 2019, 10:31:46 PM

Hi Peregrina and anyone else who might be interested in this topic,

Just a quick update. I've got a fix that I'm happy with and I'll be releasing it soon (version 4.1.1). I just need to test things out a little more thoroughly, and if that goes well, then I should be able to release within a week or so.

Karl

#48

ePub Reader / Re: Letters in night mode are ...

Last post by kweckwor - December 26, 2018, 09:59:37 PM

Hi Peregrina,

I suspect the book file is explicitly setting the text colour, so you may not find the same issue with other books.

In general, I've taken the approach to apply styles only when those styles are not explicilty set in a book file. My rationale has been that, if a book author/provider is going out of his/her way to set styles explicilty, then I assume there is an esthetic reason for doing that and I don't try to override it. But as I find cases where the general rule may not work out for the best, I'm willing to see what I can do to force a specific style to override what is coded in the book. I'll see what I can do for this scenario.

You should know though that even if I can make this change (I'm assuming I should be able to - but I'll need to figure it out to be sure), there may always be cases where styles are applied at some level of nesting in the parent hierarchy for book content that can clash with whatever styles I apply. So it may not be foolproof. ePub book content is just HTML, so styling possibilities are almost endless, so without stripping all original styles and only applying my own, it can be tricky to ensure that any general book format works well with overrides that I apply.

As I mentioned above, my strategy has been to try and be as faithful to the original book format and styling as I can, so that books are rendered as intended by the author. I still want to keep to that philosophy as much as I can. But this sounds like a reasonable exception to the general rule.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll let you know if I can make this happen in a way that I'm happy with.

Karl Weckworth

#49

ePub Reader / Letters in night mode are dark

Last post by Peregrina - December 25, 2018, 12:47:14 PM

I generally prefer using night mode to read, at least in other apps.  So far in using the ePub Reader, no matter how light a color I try to make the Foreground/letters, they are always so dark that they are unreadable if I successfully make the Background dark (and making the background dark has not been a problem).  So far I have only been reading one book, and I was wondering if there was a problem with that file, but it goes into night mode just fine when reading it in my iBooks program on my Mac, so I don't think it is a problem with the file.  I recently got a new Fire tablet and am looking for a good program for reading books in the epub format. So far the ePub Reader has the best overall features, except that night mode does not work right.  The best I seem to be able to do is leave the foreground/letters black and make the Background a dark yellow. I would much rather read in a true night mode, with the Background black and the letters offwhite.  If anyone can help me to make that happen I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

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#50

Calibre Documents Provider / Version History

Last post by kweckwor - September 09, 2018, 06:26:44 PM

VERSION 2.0.7 (2024-03-17):

• Maintenance updates.

VERSION 2.0.6 (2024-01-14):

• Maintenance updates.
  

VERSION 2.0.5 (2023-10-07):

• Maintenance updates.

VERSION 2.0.4 (2023-09-18):

• Maintenance updates.

VERSION 2.0.3 (2023-07-31):

• Target SDK 34 (Android 14).
• Add setting to allow automatic refresh when connected to network over data.
  
  
  
  • Note: Be aware that this will increase data use.

VERSION 2.0.2 (2023-07-28):

• Internal test beta.

VERSION 2.0.1 (2023-05-22):

• Migrate to Android 14.


• Enable predictive back within app animation.
• Add series as a browseable category.
• Internal updates.

VERSION 2.0.0 (2023-03-24):

• Dynamic theming (i.e. Material You). Enable through settings (disabled by default). Requires Android 12+.

VERSION 1.4.3 (2023-03-05):

• Add adaptive/themed app icon.
• Minor updates.

VERSION 1.4.2 (2023-01-28):

• Minor updates.

VERSION 1.4.1 (2022-12-30):

• Minor improvements.

VERSION 1.4.0 (2022-10-01):

• Migrate to Android 13.
• Migrate to Kotlin.

VERSION 1.3.8 (2022-05-12):

• Allow dialog titles to wrap when too long to fit on one line (to maximum 3 lines).
• Minor fixes/improvements.

VERSION 1.3.7 (2022-04-24):

• Refresh images and add higher resolution images for larger screens.

VERSION 1.3.6 (2022-02-24):

• Fix issues with Duration Picker.
• Minor updates.

VERSION 1.3.5 (2021-12-21):

• Save dialog state on device rotation or background destroy.
• Small fixes and improvements.

VERSION 1.3.4 (2021-09-02):

• Target SDK 31 (i.e. Android 12).

VERSION 1.3.2 (2021-06-09):

• Fixes.

VERSION 1.3.1 (2021-04-29):

• Usability improvements.

VERSION 1.3.0 (2021-03-11):

• NEW: Add last refresh date/time to home screen.

VERSION 1.2.11 (2021-02-07):

• Minor updates.

VERSION 1.2.10 (2020-12-13):

• Minor updates.

VERSION 1.2.9 (2020-11-02):

• Fix for duration dialog layout issues on some devices.

VERSION 1.2.8 (2020-09-19):

• NEW: Auto scan book on successful calibre export.
• NEW: Enable update of identifier book information (aka metadata).
• Minor updates.

VERSION 1.2.6 (2020-05-14):

• Minor improvements.

VERSION 1.2.5 (2020-01-19):

• Minor improvements.

VERSION 1.2.4 (2019-11-17):

• Synchronize with system light/dark mode on Android 10+.
• Internal optimizations.
• Note: Due to issues on older versions of Android with the latest Android libraries required for Android 10 system dark/light mode integration, I've started producing separate builds for Android versions greater than or equal to version 8 and lower than 8. In the "About" box for the app, if the "Build" version number has a ".102" prefix, then the app does not support Android 10 system dark/light mode integration.
  

VERSION 1.2.3 (2019-09-09):

• Update book cover image.
• Minor fixes.

VERSION 1.2.2 (2019-06-28):

• Migrate to Android 10 (Q).

VERSION 1.2.1 (2019-04-18):

• Updates for Android Q.

VERSION 1.2.0 (2019-03-02):

• NEW: Automatically detect when calibre book file data becomes stale.
• NEW: Calibre Documents Provider home page.
• NEW: Add support for provider file search.
• Minor performance improvements.

VERSION 1.1.0 (2018-12-06):

• NEW: Allow integrating applications like eLibrary Manager to update book information (metadata) in calibre libraries.

VERSION 1.0.3 (2018-11-04):

• Update URL references to HTTPS.

VERSION 1.0.2 (2018-09-26):

• Minor fixes.

VERSION 1.0.1 (2018-08-07):

• Updates for Android 9 (Pie) and Chrome OS.

VERSION 1.0.0 (2018-05-28):

• Initial release.