Even if i despise Calibre for a LOT of reasons (the main one being the fact that for no reasons it wants to FORCE ME to adopt a dumbass way of organizing my books on MY DISK that makes it totally unmanageable without Calibre..... :(), i ended up using it as a identifying/renaming/tagging/ tool, because i didn't find a suitable (for me) alternative (even if there is acouple cli tools that could end up doing the job i guess), but the problem always ends up the same :

"Pdf is a proprietary format, badly documented, with a LOT of things you aren't allowed to do in free software because Adobe require a BIG licence fee to allow it".

Being able to "embed" covers/images into an existing pdf is one it seems (and Djvu because it's basically the same).

(the problem is the same for technical reasons i guess for chm files and a couple others)

It's what irks me, i spent the time making sure all my files are properly named,with proper metadata and covers (albait external ones for pdf since i don't really have a choice, with ridiculously lacking metadata and no way to "batch process" covers into them), and it doesn't show on Ubooquity ... :(

(Main reason i use Ubooquity over sinces like COPS/Calibre-Web/Calibre-Opds-Server is because it allows me to keep MY organization of MY books how i want them AND being able to find my way into them without using Calibre.....).

Too bad it's not possible (to be honest i was pretty sure it wasn't but i had to ask xD).

Let's hope the Ubooquity Dev one day (soon please :p), will accept to add support for external metadata/covers. :D

Another question that might be totally out of the realm of possible :

seeing the amazing things you did with the skinning, and the features you changed/added, would it be possible at all to add support for external metadata files (opf files) and for external jpg/png covers for books instead of only using the ones internal to the files ?

I know i've got quite some pdf who are lacking a proper cover, and editing them manually 1 by 1 to add one for it to show is quite painful (by "quite some" i mean "hundreds" :().

Doubt it's possible but i decided that if i didn't ask i wouldn't know. :D

Another thing, is there somewhere a step by step "guide" on how to make Story Arcs and Series working ? I must admit i'm more than "kind of" lost with it.

Is there some manual operations to do somewhere ? If yes how ?

Aaah ok. 

Thanx for the info. Too bad. 

Specially since i have to choose between having each of that subfolder shared for user access management, or that interesting option working on all levels of my library xD

I've noticed that the number of books in a folder only show for "subfolders" roughly.

My librairy is set up like that :

Books ->Topic 1-> Subfolder 1

                          -> Subfolder 2

           ->Topic 2 -> Subfolder 1

                           -> Subfolder 2

And the numbers of books is only displayed for the subfolders level.

(It's the folders on the Topic* level that are shared in my librairy).

Ok thanx a lot for the answer. ;)

edit : btw what is this setting : 

var booksBaseID=null; /* Set to null to disable author page. */

supposed to do ? And how do you use it ?

Roooh nice.

Thanx a lot. ;)

Is it in the version from the op post ? Or we need to go grab it on github or something ?

Another suggestion/request : It would be nice to have a "counter" of the number of books in a folder (and it's subfolders).
Don't know if it was the default behaviour of ubooquity or because i was using one of the Dark Themes, but i had that before and it was pretty nice to see with a quick glance where i was at (of retagging/migrating my collections xD).

Ohh nice. I'll try that and let you know. 

Thanx for the work. ;)

edit : out of curiosity, if i wanted to try to make a "Dark" version of your theme, where should i start looking (i'm completly new to that, so i've got no idea where to even look :D) ?

edit2: "Read" button is working from the first screen without having to go in the book's details now for me. Great job. :)

(Now i guess i have to delve into the Comic Arcs/Series thingy to understand how it works so i can test it :p)

Rooh stupid me i didn't even notice that, i was certain it was "comic books only" so i didn't even try it. :/

Sorry for that and thx for the quick answer. :)

Hum it's really a great app honestly, and the performance compared to others is quite impressive honestly.

It's fast as Hell. ;)

Purely interested question, would you be motivated enough to expand it to ebooks/pdf reader, because honestly it blows out of the water most of the competition in that domain, and i would love being able to use your work as an opds ebook reader too. xD

(i have even more books than comics on my Ubooquity Server and i tend to read them more on public transport/on the move than comics, that i mostly read on my Android Devices at home xD).