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 <nices...@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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