CrunchBang Linux Forums - Ebook Reading

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (cimh) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:55:51 +0000

Sorry about posting to an oldish thread but has anyone managed to get Calibre (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/) running under !#

I get some install errors, on my eee 901. I think its being packaged for jaunty so I'll probably just wait. In windows it looks like a great ereader and compiler and its getting good reviews. It compiled some html files into an epub book in a fraction of the time the plucker distiller took. and the file size looks to be smaller too. Very neat.

cimh

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (kestrel) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:06:35 +0000

Screen shot of latest menu by corenominal.

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (kestrel) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:40:29 +0000

Really, thank you Philip.

I never expected you to do all this work. Of course, you got all the fun and glory also.

I'm getting a little collection of pipemenus. Seems fodder for a blog post.

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (MarvinSuggs) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:16:17 +0000

Nice work. The pipemenu is a great addition :)

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:36:41 +0000

I have done a bit more work on the script and it now includes the option to run as a pipemenu. By using the "--pipemenu" argument it should build a menu for each PDF file located within the directory set at the top of the script. The pipemenu can be added to Openbox's main menu with an entry such as:

The new version can be found at: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/66

Again, it is not the best script ever written, so please feel free to improve as you see fit. :)

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (kestrel) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:38:32 +0000

Yes! Updated an implemented. Thanks, works great.

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:53:57 +0000

kestrel wrote:

One issue I'll explore is that some of my PDF's have spaces in there names. Not a problem, I can rename them but it would be nice if the script could handle spaces in file names if present.

Oops, good catch! :) I forgot to quote the $file variable. The following revision should now handle file names with spaces:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/64

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (kestrel) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:36:19 +0000

corenominal: thanks for the great little script.

Implemented.

One issue I'll explore is that some of my PDF's have spaces in there names. Not a problem, I can rename them but it would be nice if the script could handle spaces in file names if present. Also I got to thinking that a piped menu could easily be created to show all the pdf's in a directory each as a menu option.

Thanks for a start with this little script. Fun fun fun.

Re: Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:13:53 +0000

Great tip! I did not realise that Evince could do that. Live and learn. :)

Perhaps this could be scripted so that you could just drop your current PDF file into a directory? Then you would not have to manually edit your Openbox menu item each time you changed books. I wrote a quick shell script which could do the job: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/63 - it is not the best script in the world, but it does the job. Please feel free to improve, if you like. :)

Ebook Reading

dummy@example.com (kestrel) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:54:18 +0000

Kindle it is not but I discovered a simple trick that makes reading ebooks in the mostly evil PDF format just a little easier. If you were on IRC #crunchbang today you might have heard me rant about it.

Just made a mod to my menu that is cool. Added "Current Ebook" to the main menu and the command is "evince ~/ebook/Mastering\ the\ Universe.pdf"
Two cool things about that. One - evince remembers what page I'm on and ...
Two, W-Space brings up the menu and "c" key launches "Current Ebook" because it has no sub menu and is the first menu item starting with a "c".
Fast and sweet. Easy ebook reader.

I have to change link when done with this book but that is not a problem. I usually read one at a time. If I was reading two or more books at a time I could add them separately. Great for links to reference books. Now only if evince would allow multiple bookmarking and notes.

Customary screenshot.