Hi !

Sometimes my comics exist in 2 formats : CBR or CBZ plus a PDF.

In that case, I would prefer to hide the PDF file to avoid the comic to be represented twice in my library.

I make it possibleit by coding this Javascript and adding it to the file named "themeScript.js" in a theme.

I hope this code to be self underestandable (commented :-) :

var last_book_name = ""; // Used by the de-duplicator
[...]
// START of the de-duplicator (excepted line "last_book_name...")
var book_file_format = src.slice(src.lastIndexOf(".")+1, src.lastIndexOf("?")); // CBZ, CBR and PDF or of the book : EPUB, MOBI, AZW, PDF and DJVU
var book_name = src.slice(src.lastIndexOf("/")+1,src.lastIndexOf("."));
if(book_name == last_book_name) { // 2 books have the same name (but not the same format...)
    if(book_file_format == "pdf") { // PDF format is not welcome if a CBR or CBZ file exist for the same comic
        thing.parents('.cellcontainer').hide(); // hide the duplicate book if it is in pdf
        console.log('duplicate book file hidden : ' + decodeURI(book_name) + '.pdf');
    }
}
last_book_name = book_name // memorize the book name
// END of the de-duplicator

The fact is I added my code on a particular theme already moded and itself based on the Plex theme. But It may be adapted to any other theme with some effort.

You can just download the complete moded theme here : it is the Plex theme with 2 mods : the reading indicator (by lostndessence) + the deduplicator by me

Enjoy !

My comic files (with duplicates...) : 

My library presented by Ubooquity with the moded theme (without duplicates) :

Could we get Books & Magazines as 2 separate and distinct sections. I like to see my 'proper' books distinct from the newstand style Magazines as I don't think they look great together. thanks

Have you ever thought about allowing concurrent db connections?

"LOCK_FILE=NO" 

Jaggery JS is a good library to allow reading H2 db's.

This would solve a lot of problems as we developers could then get arcs / series straight out of the database as long as it was captured by the metadata being present.

I know that it is possible to corrupt the db, but would only be an issue if our code allowed writes. But we only should be using reads.

hello

i love ubooquity so far!

i am organizing and tagging my collection and have to put more than 10k books in my library. so i thought it would presumably be sort of difficult for someone to navigate through all the files and explore what's in it.

is there a chance to get a list of e.g. all available genres in the library and show only the books containing this tag, when clicking on a specific genre? i mean something like a menue 'Discover' and then it shows three lists, for the available genres, titles and authors, sorted alphabetically.

i'm aware that they can simply search for a genre to get the exact same results, but sometimes you're not looking for something specific and would rather prefer to see an overview what's in it and then choose something from the offered items. 

if you could implement something like that it would be great!

regards

angelo

Page is served on https via reverse proxy. With this option set, the following happen:
- Open page with only one folder

- Receive a 302 html code redirecting the page (as expected), but to http instead of https.

Today I tried to use a wildcard letsencrypt certificate with ubooquity but with the manuals provided I got an SSL error.

So I dug into some other stuff I had lying around and came up with following

step 1

openssl pkcs12 -export -in /export/certificate/domainname.cer -inkey /export/certificate/domainname.key -out /home/comics/keystore.p12 -name ubooquity
-CAfile /export/certificate/fullchain.cer -caname root

Step 2

keytool -importkeystore -deststorepass password -destkeypass password -destkeystore /home/comics/keystore -srckeystore keystore.p12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -alias ubooquity

When asked for a password enter a password you have used before in these lines. You need this later as well when removing or recreating a keystore

now you are ready to enter the keystore info in the config of ubooquity

/home/comics/keystore

and enter the password

in the log you will see SSL is enabled

com.ubooquity.d.e - HTTPS activated
20181112 22:14:51 [Thread-18] INFO org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server - jetty-9.4.0.v20161208
20181112 22:14:51 [Thread-18] INFO o.e.j.server.handler.ContextHandler - Started o.e.j.s.h.ContextHandler@17549ad2{/,null,AVAILABLE,@admin}
20181112 22:14:51 [Thread-18] INFO o.e.j.server.handler.ContextHandler - Started o.e.j.s.h.ContextHandler@3affabdb{/,null,AVAILABLE,@library}
20181112 22:14:51 [Thread-18] INFO o.e.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory - x509=X509@2142c9e8(ubooquity,h=[],w=[aroundtheworld.net]) for SslContextFactory@527618b1(file:///home/dennis/comics/keystore,null)
20181112 22:14:51 [Thread-18] INFO o.e.jetty.server.AbstractConnector - Started library@11f693b3{SSL,[ssl, http/1.1]}{0.0.0.0:2202}
20181112 22:14:51 [Thread-18] INFO o.e.jetty.server.AbstractConnector - Started admin@7e136c36{SSL,[ssl, http/1.1]}{0.0.0.0:2203}
20181112 22:14:51 [Thread-18] INFO org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server - Started @461079ms

if this is not working, modify the json to remove the keystore info and restart to go back to http

Maybe this can be helpful for some

btw I do not do scripting as I need to manually adjust stuff in my VM's ;-)

First of all thank you for developing this awesome piece of software and providing it to us all!

I have a feature request, concerning the comicrack metadata of the cbr/cbz files.

Those files do not only contain metadata in general about the comic, but it's also possible to add specific data about a page in the comic. The most interesting of those is the 'bookmark' tag, please do not confuse this with your 'continue reading' feature. It is used for marking certain pages with names, mostly for chapterization, but also for marking certain parts like the table of contents etc.

Those informations could be interesting for skipping to certain parts of a comic, so I think it would be great to make them available via some interface.

For a documentation on how this looks inside the comicinfo.xml, you can refer to this page

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc/wiki/ComicRack-metadata

however it should be added that there can be more page specific info, so there may be some pages present in the xml that don't have any ninformation for the server.

Also, as a more general idea, I think such a feature exists for any book format you support on your server (ebooks, pdf etc, at least my kindle and adobe seem to recognize some breakpoints), so maybe a universal API  for that could be interesting, but this is far beyond my request and interest.

I realize this is a bit of a tall order, but I thought I'd throw out here:

I have a somewhat large collection (>15k) of already tagged (ComicInfo.xml) comic files that aren't organized by folder at all.   Using Ubooquity's large size grid view really isn't great for navigating that.

What would be awesome is the possibility to have a text-only table view of my collection, with configurable (and sortable) columns (series name, publisher, writer, artist, date, etc).  So, for example, after a search of "Jack Kirby", I'd be able to get a list of comics that I can then sort by publication date or series name.

I realize this is a big feature, but it's something I hope you'll think about!

Thanks.

Hello,

I am wondering if it's possible to add support for easier navigation between chapters of the same comic. This is especially an annoyance for japanese manga which I scan and organize in the same way they are released, which is by chapter rather than volumes (complete books). This means that every 15 to 20 pages of reading forces me to exit the "book" and select the next one. Some titles have hundreds of chapters so this really breaks the flow when deciding to binge read a series.

I think the most convenient would be simply to proceed to page 1 of the next comic. For example in the following directory structure:

- manga

-- example_manga_1

--- example_manga 001.cbz

--- example_manga 002.cbz

--- example_manga 003.cbz

-- example_manga_2

--- example_manga_2 001.cbz

--- example_manga_2 002.cbz

let's say each 001.cbz contains 20 pages, instead of blocking at page 20 of 001.cbz, clicking the arrow to the next page would proceed to page 1 of 002.cbz.

This may not be desired for traditional western comics or books however so maybe only have it as a on/off option per root directory under the comics admin page?

Thanks for the consideration.

I have 128GB Ram on my computer that I read magazines on. But Ubooquity does not continue loading the magazine as I'm reading...it only loads a few pages at a time.

Is there a setting where I can increase how much memory it uses? Or would you add this as a feature please.

Thank you for the amazing application!