Updated Reading List Index
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## Ebook Directories
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All my ebooks live in a directory on [[PHNAS02|Western Digital MyCloud EX2 Ultra]] (under `/archive/ebooks/) with the following sub-directories.
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All my ebooks live in a directory on PHNAS02 (under `/archive/ebooks/) with the following sub-directories.
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This directory is archived to ISO once a month (currently about 10GB)
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### ebooks-master
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* Epub ebooks. This is the master list of well-formed epubs.
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* This directory is synced (including deletions) daily to [[ph-bigbrother]] in the directory `/home/chawley/Documents/ebooks-local` via rsync and cron as a local backup
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### ebook-overflow
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* ebooks-overflow - either non-epubs or related collections of epubs
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* comics - Misc cbr/cbz collection
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* linuxjournal - (epub) Linux Journal Magazine (2011 - 2019)
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* pdf - Books in PDF format
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### ebook-unsync
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* ebooks-unsync - random collections of misc formats and non-well-formed epubs
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* Complete Peanuts 1950-2000 (CBR) Display issues on ReadEra
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* epubs-triage - Checked books that need cleaned up (TOC, spell-check)
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* epubs-unprocessed - books to check for formatting or layout errors
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* epubs-x - erotic ebooks
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## Calibre
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## How?
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### ~~Bookfusion~~
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As of Oct 2021, I've gone back to Calibre as a library for my epubs because of ease of handling meta-data and the sheer number of solutions that are compatible with the calibre database. The latest version of [[Calibre|HowTo - Calibre Server in Docker]] and calibre-server is installed on [[overlook]].
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* Dec 2022. I'm not using this. I still feel sketchy about my files in someone else's cloud. I have access to it until next fall, so I'll check periodically to see if there are new features that change my mind, but it's mostly unused.
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* Oct 2022. On a whim, I subscribed to [Bookfusion](https://www.bookfusion.com/bookshelf). It's a service that allows you to upload books, and it syncs all your books, bookmarks and notes between devices. I opted for the Casual plan. It's the lowest price (\$19/year) and it allows 5 GB of uploads. I checked my ebooks-master directory, and it's only 1.5 GB. Even if I included my PDFs, it's still only another 1.3 GB. Both would be well within the 5 GB limit. My reasoning was that if I saw something this cool in a store, I'd totally pay $20 to try it. So I guess we'll see if this will supplant my Calibre system (which up to this point has been working really well, but hasn't been without its idiosyncrasies)
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### Calibre
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On the phone and the tablet I use [Calibre-Companion](https://calibrecompanion.co/) to access and download titles from the ebook library. I use [ReadEra Premium](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.readera.premium&hl=en_US&gl=US) to read because it renders the most file formats and synchronizes books, progress and annotations between devices.
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* As of Oct 2021, I've imported all my epubs into Calibre and am using it a library because of ease of handling meta-data and the sheer number of solutions that are compatible with the calibre database. The latest version of [Calibre](https://wiki.yelwahselrahc.com/books/howtos/page/calibre) and calibre-server is installed on [overlook](https://wiki.yelwahselrahc.com/books/my-machines/page/overlook)
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* On the phone and the tablet I use [Calibre-Companion](https://calibrecompanion.co/) to access and download titles from the ebook library. I use [ReadEra Premium](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.readera.premium&hl=en_US&gl=US) to read because it renders the most file formats and synchronizes books, progress and annotations between devices.
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### Libby
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## Libby
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* Working for OverDrive, I have long been only a casual fan of Libby. I am hoping to change that since I've spent years looking for a cross-platform reader that allows me to highlight, take notes and sync between the web, phone and tablet and have only found Libby. ReadEra is awesome for books I own, and it does sync between the phone and the tablet, but has no web interface. Besides, Libby lets me sample books and helps me discover new books. Lastly, the audiobooks interface on Libby is first-class. I need to listen to more books, too.
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### ~~Jelu~~
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I work for OverDrive and have long been only a casual fan of Libby. I am hoping to change that since I've spent years looking for a cross-platform reader that allows me to highlight, take notes and sync between the web, phone and tablet and have only found Libby. ReadEra is awesome for books I own and it does sync between the phone and the tablet, but has no web interface. Besides, Libby lets me sample books and helps me discover new books. Lastly, the audiobooks interface on Libby is first-class. I need to listen to more books, too.
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* Dec 2022. I think Jelu is going away soon. It's too many clicks to enter a book and make notes. It's just easier to keep my notes the old way.
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* From the [GitHub page](https://github.com/bayang/jelu)
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> This app main purpose is to track what you have read, what you are reading and what you want to read.
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> It acts as a self hosted "personal Goodreads" because I became tired of switching providers every time an online service was shut. I also became tired of having to export and reimport my data each time with data loss in the process.
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> You have control on your data since Jelu offers an API you can script or integrate with any third party tool or service (which you cannot do with the vast majority of other online services). All your data is now located into a single-file database which can be saved anywhere.
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* I am going to try to use my [Jelu](https://jelu.planethawleywood.com) instance for tracking my reading. I still have dozens of Reading List files in my old notes. It's going to take a long time to migrate things over.
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## Notes
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_These one-liners were useful when I kept all my reading notes in a uniform format in markdown. Things have changed and while my notes are back in markdown, I don't these will work anymore. I'll keep them here as reference just in case._
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Get reading list by finished date (via terminal in `ncnotes` directory)
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List all books with a start date (or 'unknown')
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