Suggestions & Problems

justjeff · April 04, 2025, 08:29:32 PM

Quote from: palisadehealer on September 20, 2021, 08:01:25 AMP.S. I was able to gather some more materials from friends... may I send them to you for as contribution to the collection of sound Catholic materials?

(There are also various books of cultural worth, but most of them are specifically concerned with understanding, living, and propagating the Faith.)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bIs0TAC1bS9HppLwvgCitgRkwN-78w9F?usp=sharing

Here is a link to the cloud storage where I've transferred them... I hope these may help many more souls! Again, thank you so much for all your kind work.

Perhaps this is old news, but it looks like the libgen site was seized by the feds. Hopefully my browser didn't provide them with a referrer link.

It also looks like the google books link is no longer valid.

Geremia · April 05, 2025, 03:06:18 AM

Quote from: justjeff on April 04, 2025, 08:29:32 PMIt also looks like the google books link is no longer valid.

I don't remember what palisadehealer had in that Google Drive link anyways.

Geremia · April 05, 2025, 03:08:21 AM

Quote from: justjeff on April 04, 2025, 08:15:12 PMTheir search engine has a selection of sites that they peruse, but Isidore.co is not one of them.

LibGen already has most of the books from the Isidore.co library. Isidore.co is 6,192 books. It's tiny compared to shadow libraries' collections like Anna's Archive's 43,206,948 books.

justjeff · April 05, 2025, 05:16:16 PM

Quote from: Geremia on April 05, 2025, 03:08:21 AM
Quote from: justjeff on April 04, 2025, 08:15:12 PMTheir search engine has a selection of sites that they peruse, but Isidore.co is not one of them.
LibGen already has most of the books from the Isidore.co library. Isidore.co is 6,192 books. It's tiny compared to shadow libraries' collections like Anna's Archive's 43,206,948 books.

Sorry, I should have spelled my question out better. It started on the subject line, so it was unclear. I have added the following edit in blue: to that original post to hopefully clear things up a bit:

Quote from: justjeff on April 04, 2025, 08:15:12 PMTheir search engine has a selection of sites that they peruse, but Isidore.co is not one of them. I suppose that is hardwired in, but I am no power user of Calibre. Perhaps there is an option to add your site to their list, or maybe there is a plug in or extension that would do so?

added via edit: I use Calibre for my home library as well and it has an option to search the internet for books via an icon labeled "get books". It has a variety of sources that can be searched, such as Amazon, Kobo, Project Gutenberg & numerous others. Unfortunately, Isidore.co is not one of those options. I am wondering, if there is a way to add Isidore.co to those options so that if I come across a reference to a book I could do the search across multiple online platforms at once, including Isidore? Ideally, there is some way to manually add websites to their search engine database, but if not, perhaps there is already an extension that someone is aware of that could add St. Isidore &/or other sites?

Geremia · April 05, 2025, 08:46:52 PM

Quote from: justjeff on April 04, 2025, 08:15:12 PMI use Calibre for my home library as well and it has an option to search the internet for books via an icon labeled "get books". It has a variety of sources that can be searched, such as Amazon, Kobo, Project Gutenberg & numerous others. Unfortunately, Isidore.co is not one of those options.

Oh, you want to add a store to Calibre for the Isidore.co library?
There is an OPDS feed: https://isidore.co/calibre/opds/navcatalog/4f6e6577657374
And the OPDS Client plugin that allows importing books from OPDS feeds.

But I think you'd like an "Isidore.co Store" made. They're basically plugins.

Geremia · July 29, 2025, 07:26:37 PM

@justjeff There's also calibre_annas_archive, which is a store for Anna's Archive (shadow library). Most of the St. Isidore e-book library is on there, and I'm in the process of uploading more to LibGen (the metadata of which Anna's Archive archives).

k42s · August 28, 2025, 07:45:06 PM

As opposed to a store, is there a way in Calibre to include Anna's Archive (or LibGen, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, other similar libraries) as a metadata source? The sources from the current repo of Calibre plugins draw from Amazon, Goodreads, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and smaller European bookstores, but the archival libraries are notably absent.

Geremia · August 29, 2025, 12:39:49 AM

Quote from: k42s on August 28, 2025, 07:45:06 PMAs opposed to a store, is there a way in Calibre to include Anna's Archive (or LibGen, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, other similar libraries) as a metadata source?

I asked your question on MobileRead and calibre_annas_archive issue #14.

justjeff · February 05, 2026, 09:34:19 PM

Not sure this is a problem, but I just tried the non javascript page for the book list, and noticed that the list is different than the main list.

Geremia · February 06, 2026, 04:48:04 AM

Quote from: justjeff on February 05, 2026, 09:34:19 PMNot sure this is a problem, but I just tried the non javascript page for the book list, and noticed that the list is different than the main list.

Do you mean it's sorted differently for you?
It looks the same for me.

justjeff · February 06, 2026, 03:36:47 PM

Yes, sorted differently, and it looks quite different, though I would expect the formatting to look different.

Screenshot of the standard view:

vs
Screenshot of https://isidore.co/calibre/mobile

Geremia · February 07, 2026, 03:47:28 AM

Quote from: justjeff on February 06, 2026, 03:36:47 PMScreenshot of the standard view

It looks like you have it sorted by ascending date, whereas the mobile one sorts the books by descending date. Click the third button from the right in the upper right corner to change the sort.

justjeff · February 07, 2026, 08:46:12 PM

Quote from: Geremia on February 07, 2026, 03:47:28 AM
Quote from: justjeff on February 06, 2026, 03:36:47 PMScreenshot of the standard view
It looks like you have it sorted by ascending date, whereas the mobile one sorts the books by descending date. Click the third button from the right in the upper right corner to change the sort.

Thank you. I must have inadvertantly switched the order on the main/original page.

I do see that the regular page (with javascript) does not show the book, True Obedience in the Church: A Guide to Discernment in Challenging Times by Kwasniewski, Peter, whereas the non-javascript/mobile version does show it as the first entry.

I did a search for the book, thinking that perhaps it had been added a year or 3 earlier, but I couldn't find it under Peter A. Kwasniewski. A little later I noticed that Mr. Kwasniewski has a couple of entries as author. It looks like this book was entered as the only entry for Kwasniewski, Peter (sans the middle initial). I wouldn't think that that would explain why it is showing at the top of the mobile version, but not at the top of the normal version, but perhaps it is implicated somehow.

Sorry to be a bother. It isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things & doesn't actually bother me. I'm just pointing it out in case it is something that you feel is worth looking into.

Geremia · February 07, 2026, 09:34:21 PM

Quote from: justjeff on February 07, 2026, 08:46:12 PMI do see that the regular page (with javascript) does not show the book, True Obedience in the Church: A Guide to Discernment in Challenging Times by Kwasniewski, Peter, whereas the non-javascript/mobile version does show it as the first entry.

They're exactly the same for me.

Quote from: justjeff on February 07, 2026, 08:46:12 PMI did a search for the book, thinking that perhaps it had been added a year or 3 earlier, but I couldn't find it under Peter A. Kwasniewski. A little later I noticed that Mr. Kwasniewski has a couple of entries as author. It looks like this book was entered as the only entry for Kwasniewski, Peter (sans the middle initial).

Thanks for catching that. Human entry error. There shouldn't be two authors, "Kwasniewski, Peter" and "Kwasniewski, Peter A.".

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