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Optional ability to read "cover.jpg" as folder cover rather than image1 from comic1. Mylar users with "sort by publisher" will really appreciate this.
Optional ability to change web presentation page title from 'Ubooquity' to alternative title.
Include Publisher in ComicInfo.
Ability to share folders and subfolders independently?
User quotas.
Optional ability to change web presentation page title from 'Ubooquity' to alternative title.
Include Publisher in ComicInfo.
Ability to share folders and subfolders independently?
User quotas.
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Here are my thoughts:
I know its mentioned in another post but the ability to have all comics in 1 base folder without having select comics twice.
This might be more of an issue than a request. When you are on a subsequent page and click on a comic then press the "Up" button, it takes you back to page 1.
I have had a few instances where the cover jpg will "render" incorrectly. Is there a way to re-generate files?
Would there be a way to display "Series" information? such as; Plot, Release year, Issues, etc
Really awesome work! Only just found your program and am loving it so far!
Communication between users is really far from the intended scope of Ubooquity. I prefer to focus on core functionnalities.
Ability to have all comics in 1 base folder without having select comics twice.
Done in 1.7.5 (check the advanced options).
When you are on a subsequent page and click on a comic then press the "Up" button, it takes you back to page 1.
That's the intended behaviour. Partly because the "back" button of your browser allows you to go back to the page you were coming from (although I understand that in some cases it would require several clicks), mostly because remembering your position when navigating several hierarchical levels requires extra work on my side.
Is there a way to re-generate files?
Not through the interface, but you can rename a file, rescan it and re-rename it with the original name. THe scanning process is quick when only a few files are modified.
Would there be a way to display "Series" information? such as; Plot, Release year, Issues, etc
Series informations is displayed for each comic book when the comic book files contains metadata (you can write metadata using ComicRack or ComicTagger). If you mean series information not linked to a specific file (like a folder containing the series), I suppose I could implement a few things like the ones proposed by Paul and Matthieu below. We'll see...
I'm with you, Hayden. I'd like Ubooquity to be more like Kodi and show issue details. I hope that inclusion of more metadata goes hand-in-hand with progress on the user interface to make it as intuitive and pleasant as other front-ends (Kodi, Plex).
For showing the number of issues that is as simple as counting the number of files in the current folder, but I think you mean to show the number of published issues for the series you are viewing, right? For continuing series this changes every month and would require Ubooquity to have an internet connection, a ComicVine API key and to scrape the API continuously. Sounds bad. This is directly related to your request of having a reporting feature because users would have to be able to see placeholder empty issues where an issue is expected, but does not exist which would require Ubooquity to scrape ComicVine for a full list of every published issue then correctly insert into place, or otherwise be able to show the user where they are missing issues. ComicRack is supposed to have a plugin that shows you series gaps, but I've never been able to get it to work. I have a feeling Tom will say this missing issue business is outside the scope of his program. Let's wait and see :)
Just to complete the "cover.jpg" idea (which I believe in), this would also make sense to have the capacity to add some notes at the folder level.
Think about methadata as we have for CBR/CBZ, but for a folder. For the overall summary of the serie e.g.
To be in line with Ubooquity philosophy, this would have to be defined by the administrator, on a txt file let's say, on the folder root. This way ubooquity would just scrap this file to feed the database...
Cheers,
Mat
But it'd be very cool on a per comic series basis. Don't know about who by or how this info would be scraped. Is there a ComicInfo.xml equivalent for series?
(as long as you write the text file or provide the images)
I'll think about it.
#!/bin/bash
APP=/opt/ubooquity
CLASS=${APP}/Ubooquity.jar
APP_JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java
${APP_JAVA_HOME} -jar "${CLASS}" -webadmin -headless
You can also try to follow the links in the FAQ where people explain how they managed to install Ubooquity on different devices.
If I search for it via the web interface it shows up but doesn't appear to when I am going through in alphabetical order (which is a good thing)
Don't bother too much though, I have implemented the solution suggested above (simple image file in the directory) as well as the user provided info through local html files in the folder.
They will be part of the next release (no date yet though).
Hi there. Just started using Ubooquity and I totally love it! But something that I think would massively improve it, is syncing read progress across devices. Store it in profile data or whatever, so you can stop reading at page 7 of whatever issue can carry on on page 7 on another device. It would also be awesome if a new "IN PROGRESS" section could be included on the site, listing any books that are past page 1, and the next issue if the previous issue has reached the final page.
Don't know how feasible any of that is, but it would be awesome :) There would be no need for dedicated comics apps anymore :)
Thanks!
Oh please ignore this, I've found the feature has alreayd been implemented :)
Keyword searches. All my books are keyword search-able and I'd like to be able to search all the books in my collection for different keywords to determine which to go look at.
Swipe gestures for iOS Safari and Android browsers.
Ability to make recommendations to other user's.
Ability to label books as a "favorite" for easy tracking of the ones you read the most or like the most (maybe even a rating system that keeps track of each user's rating and averages it).
Ability to tag books with keywords and make them easily searchable. Also, the ability to create "collections" based on those tags.
LDAP. So that someday this could be used in a large organization.
Ability to overwrite book titles or authors in case the metadata in the book isn't perfect.
Ability to see all books that you haven't finished reading (your bookmark exists, but you're not on the last page).
That's a lot of features. :)
> Swipe gestures for iOS Safari and Android browsers.
Added to the backlog.
> Ability to see all books that you haven't finished reading (your bookmark exists, but you're not on the last page).
Already working on it.
I don't know yet if it will be part of the next release, as I need to finish the new HTML templating system first, but it's coming.
> Keyword searches. All my books are keyword search-able and I'd like to be able to search all the books in my collection for different keywords to determine which to go look at.
Mmm, I 'd have to do some research to know if this is doable easily enough or not.
> LDAP. So that someday this could be used in a large organization.
Ubooquity is home server. It's aimed at personal computers and NAS. ;)
Using it in large organisation would require more than "just" adding LDAP support, and I would have had to use a very different set of tools/libraries to achieve that.
> Ability to make recommendations to other user's.
Like a twitter/facebook "share" button ?
> Ability to label books as a "favorite" for easy tracking of the ones you read the most or like the most (maybe even a rating system that keeps track of each user's rating and averages it).
> Ability to tag books with keywords and make them easily searchable. Also, the ability to create "collections" based on those tags.
> Ability to overwrite book titles or authors in case the metadata in the book isn't perfect.
Ubooquity's focus is on accessing your content, not on organizing it or editing its metadata.
The two main reasons for that being:
- it's easier to guarantee the integrity of your files if I never modify them
- I lack the time to develop these kind of "peripheral" features
So to do all that I would recommend using Calibre (although I know Ubooquity needs improvements when it comes to books grouping, be it by author or series).
Dunno how feasible it would be to make work but have a add on section so even though it may be features you dont want to tackle such as metadata and that someone may be able to write a plugin script that would allow users to do so.