User:Andre Castro/2.1/research-experiments-log

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03.10.2012

Sharing my digital library

Steps

  1. put my calibre ebook library on machine online for 24h
  2. start calibre content server
$ calibre-server

which point to my Calibre-library, and uses port machine_ip:8080

  1. check library remotely

Problem!! Calibre library is only accessible on the local LAN where I am at. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=160387

  • in order to access the library remotely I have to have calibre installed on a server.
  • calibre server on a LAN becomes a bit redundant, perhaps is handy for grabbing the books to ereaders and exchange them with people that are near one (on the same LAN), but one cannot say is yet a strong strategy for sharing books with someone in another part of the world.


04.10.2012

opening and modifying and epub Too much talk about ebooks, witout actually looking at the insides of one. That's what I will do, will and create a new one with a section of the original.

  1. choose a book: Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
  2. unzip the epub: there are 2 directories;
A) 4018/ html,css, content.opf(xml, metadata), .ncx(?)files, and cover; 
B) META-INF/container.xml (pointing to content.opf)
C) ./mimetype file containing application/epub+zip


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