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Ideas
Directory description.
Ubooquity is great for simple manga directory structure but it's a burden when we move to a larger manga database (you know, I love manga).
Search ".description" (or similar) while browsing directory, if the file is found then the whole directory (and subs) is a "leaf": inside you'll find a single comic repository.
File ".description" can contain metadata like:
- title
- description (short / long)
- author
- illustrator (shouldn't be here but it's ok)
- arcs (i.e. "from 1 to 15 is Falling sky, from 16 to 67 is Becoming adult etc...)
- genre
- tags
- "see also"
tags, author, illustrator and other fields could be used for "advanced" search.
If ".description" exist then a ".samples" subfolder (with covers and similar stuff) could exist too.
If ".description" exist then a ".extra" subfolder (with specials, out of order etc) could exist too.
Comic files can be:
- as they already are (duh)
- splitted between folders (like "arc 1", "arc 2", "arc 3" etc)
I know this isn't really easy to do but well, as far as they are just "ideas"... why not ?
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You could also add a .profile directory, each file inside would be in the form:
primary.name (for primary characters)
or
secondary.name (for the rest)
Each file could contain one or more of those fields:
- name
- affiliation (like family, clan, crest, group etc, ...just a text field)
- pics (image file names, inside .samples like VEGETA.JPG)
- description (duh)
- "also seen in"
- other fields (parsed but unused)
The idea is that you read something, a character appears (or is referenced) and you don't exactly remember who he is, what he did or similar stuff... you'll have a character icon on top, click and a list of primary and secondary characters appear (on a different window), here you can see (image) or browse (name) who he is, what's his history and a short description.
Not exactly my kind of stuff but I'm sure a lot of readers (expecially marvel and DC ones) would kill for something like that.