Calibre e-reader SFS

[don570]

Calibre e-reader appimage (latest version 6.5) doesn't work in fatdog64 however
there is an earlier version in fatdog repository that works...

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/contri ... 6_64-1.sfs

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I can update it with calibre-3.46.0-x86_64-1.sfs but before I do I'm going to try building a newer one.

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Calibre 5.44.0 17-Jun-2022 is now available from the SFS Manager in control panel.
This is the last calibre version that can work with Fatdog64 81x series.
To make rox open supported e-book file types with calibre, download and run the attached script for Fatdog 813 in a terminal. The script installs permanent rox system-level links, and shows what it is doing in the terminal.

[don570]

Thanks for lookin into this.
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Calibre 7.13.0 28-Jun-2024 is now available as a loadable SFS. Install it using the SFS Manager in control panel.
This version requires Fatdog64-902 and either the DEVX SFS or python3.

The viewer runs a web browser inside - as root - not as spot as we usually do to improve security of internet facing software. So, be careful which links and buttons you click inside your e-books. If you want to force running as spot, edit four calibre .desktop files in /usr/share/applications changing Exec= to Exec=run-as-spot (with a space after "spot"). The rest of the line stays the same.

Calibre e-book viewer can open many formats, including epub and kindle. I tested both formats and they worked. Sometimes the viewer seems to get stuck loading a book but it's easy to fix. Right-clicking the frozen/blank page will force displaying the menu, and reveal the page underneath.
In my tests, calibre threw errors while opening DJVU files. You can use evince to view this format.

For ROX to open supported e-book file types with calibre, download and run the attached script for Fatdog 902 in a terminal. The script installs permanent rox user-level links, and shows what it is doing in the terminal. To undo some association delete the corresponding files in ~/.icons/ROX/MIME and ~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types, and run fatdog-sync-mime.sh.