ebooks of web content and virtual libraries
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make your own ebooks from web content
recipe books
For example taking you laptop to the kitchen to follow recipes from websites like cooks.com, bigoven.com, foodnetwork and allrecipes is
not always convenient. However if you could put together a number of
recipes from these sites into an ebook and load it on to your ebook
reader it would make life a lot easier. There are plugins in calibre
that allow you to do exactly this. Plugins for these websites can be
downloaded directly from calibre following the procedure described in
the section "Getting the find duplicates plugin" of the blog post "calibre plugins: duplicate finder". They can also be obtained from the mobile read website. Just click on Recipe Reader, BigOven Recipe Reader, Food Network Recipe Reader and all recipes Recipe Reader to download the plugin from mobileread or to get details about it.
The gist is:
Create an ebook of recipes from from the particular recipe website whose
plugin you have downloaded by entering the urls of interest
Main Features
- Create ebook of recipes
- Give the ebook a title of your choice
- Use generated table of contents to go to particular recipe
Usage
- Click plugin button
- Enter a title for the ebook (optional)
- If you do not enter a title, the title will be the same as that of the first recipe
- Enter URL of recipe.
- To enter another URL click "Add another URL" and enter the URL in the field that appears
- Repeat till you have entered all the URLs you want
- Click OK
ebooks of Wikipedia pages
Wikipedia has a lot of useful information to offer. Some of their
articles are quite long and/or related to many other articles. A plugin
exists for creating an ebook for multiple Wikipedia pages. For example
you could create an an ebook of the biographies of British writers like
Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, Agatha Christie and J. K. Rowling from
their respective Wikipedia pages and put it on your ebook reader and
read about them at leisure or even while travelling. Here is a link to
the Wiki Reader plugin page
on mobileread. The Ebook created by the plugin will have a table of
contents with the main headings being the names of the pages chosen and a
substructure same as the table of contents as on the Wikipedia page.
The details are similar to the Recipe Reader plugins and available on
the Wiki Reader plugin page on mobileread.
virtual libraries
This feature used to be called 'Search restriction'. The new virtual libraries are easier to use, but otherwise fulfill the same function. Lets consider an example to explore this feature.
In the following example I tag ebooks created by the user (say using the above mentioned plugins) as "Compiled". Say I want to manage my "compiled" ebooks today, fix their metadata etc. I can do that by isolating them in to a separate virtual library. How do I do this?
Click on the virtual library icon and in the drop down menu that shows up click on "Create Virtual Library". Now a new window opens that allows you to create a virtual library based on commonly used parameters like Authors, Tags, series etc by just clicking on the appropriate parameter. If you want to create a more unusual virtual library (like books added in last 50 days) you can type in the Virtual library name and Search expression. For details on how to enter search expressions and how powerful these searches can be see the user manual page on the subject.
In this example however I have already tagged the ebooks of interest as "compiled", so I just click on "Tags" and a smaller window with all the tags listed opens over the previous one.
Now I just select the "Compiled" tag from the list. You can choose multiple tags and create the virtual library with books containing either any or all the tags of choice. Just select the appropriate option. If using a single tag this choice does not matter.
So here is the virtual library of compiled ebooks that can now be managed in isolation.
The recipe ebooks compiled using the some of the 4 recipe reader plugins mentioned above are tagged in red using column coloring feature discussed here. As you can see there are 5 of them and the tag browser shows that too.
Now say that you had just used the compiled tag to isolate the compiled ebooks instead of using virtual libraries. Then you would see,
where while there are only 5 "compiled" recipes again, the tag browser shows 7. This is because the tag browser shows the number of ebooks tagged recipes in the entire library (compiled or otherwise) and not just those displayed with the "compiled" tag. So, a virtual library is different from a simple search. A search will only restrict the list of books shown in the book list. A virtual library does that, and in addition it also restricts the entries shown in the Tag Browser to the left. A virtual library thus behaves as though the actual library contains only the restricted set of books.
what else can you do?
- You can edit a previously created virtual library or remove it, by clicking the Virtual Library and choosing the appropriate action.
- You can tell calibre that you always want to apply a particular virtual library when the current library is opened, by going to Preferences->Behavior.
- If you use the calibre Content Server, you can have it share a virtual library instead of the full library by going to Preferences->Sharing over the net.
- You can quickly use the current search as a temporary virtual library by clicking the Virtual Library button and choosing the *current search entry.
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