[IAEP] calibre + OPDS for offline book catalogs.

[Gonzalo Odiard]

I will download Calibre and try it. If this not works, we can use code from
Pathagar to create a catalog
or use python to create the catalog.xml file with the data in the csv file,
or use another
simpler format (like json) to create local catalogs.
I only need a little of time. This week si packed.

Gonzalo


On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:54 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gonzalo,
>
> I've been investigating OPDS with calibre as a way of distributing
> books with an offline catalog.  As you know, there has always been an
> interest in doing this in areas where Internet access is unavailable.
>
> With the help of calibre-OPDS I was able to create both a website and
> an OPDS catalog that can easily live in an Apache webroot, a thumb
> drive, or a Dropbox folder.  In this way you can easily create a
> static website that does NOT require calibre to be running.
>
> Now the bad news: the OPDS catalog seems to be more complex that what
> GetBooks can deal with.  It is organized as a hierarchy of XML files,
> with lists by Author, Title, Rating, etc.  Instead of having just one
> XML file with the whole catalog you have a bunch of them.
>
> The software is described here:
>
>
> http://dearauthor.com/ebooks/create-your-own-cloud-of-ebooks-with-calibre-calibre-opds-dropbox/
>
> You might try this yourself.  The software is in Java and is really
> simple to set up, so you can generate a test OPDS index in no time
> from data in a calibre database.
>
> The static website is actually quite useful, and could be used from
> the Browse Activity if the website was stored on a thumb drive.  That
> might be an alternative to recommend to those who need to distribute
> books without Internet access.
>
> James Simmons
>
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