Calibre

[art1go]

calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
calibre server allows to share books and manage subscriptions for newspapers an RSS. It can send them to a Kindle or any other eReaders over the Internet.
I think it would be great to have such a feature in Bubba.
http://calibre-ebook.com/

/tom

[RandomUsername]

Trouble is that Calibre requires a GUI (uses QT IIRC).

It's open-source though so feel free to port it

[art1go]

Well maybe

[Cheeseboy]

Trouble is that Calibre requires a GUI

Well, yes and no.
If you start it with

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calibre

it will try to start a GUI.
If you start it with

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calibre-server

it doesn't.
The problem is you need the GUI to configure it, import books and stuff. The web interface doesn't let you do that.
But this is not un-doable. The Bubba2 and B3 are perfectly able to display a GUI over the network to a Xserver.
I have also tried installing xfce4 on the B3 and connecting to it with vnc, and it works. So it's definitely doable.

Also, the author of calibre is a very approachable guy. If enough people ask him to incorporate the full functionality into the web interface, leaving a headless installation, he might implement it.
Or he might give you hints on how to migrate your library from your GUI workstation to your headless server.

EDIT:
Or just google for it:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76513

[RandomUsername]

Anyone tried this yet and got any news (good or bad) to report?

Was thinking about having a go myself.

[Cheeseboy]

Hi!

I just tried it, and it didn't go too well, I keep getting these errors:

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1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

It only happens on the bubba, not on Ubuntu.
I noticed that the Python version on my bubba is 2.6.6 and on my Ubuntu box it is 2.6.5 - don't know if this is relevant. I did some googling and found a post suggesting it had something to do with limitations of the shell, so tried it in csh, ksh and bash - same result.

Best regards,

Cheeseboy

[RandomUsername]

Thanks Cheeseboy.

I might give it a go myself when I get a few moments.

[art1go]

Anyone tried this yet and got any news (good or bad) to report?

Was thinking about having a go myself.

I had a look as well and it seems messy. Although I might be wrong, I felt it was a lot work for something which will end up to require a lot of resources (cpu).