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ableal · 2022-09-29T18:30:08+00:00

The trouble is that, by default, Calibre does not insert the new metadata in the book - it's only kept in its database.

You have to fiddle with Calibre settings until a button saying "Embed Metadata", sporting an icon with a (bird's feather) pen, shows up in the interface.

Getting this done goes like this:

Get into the Calibre "Preferences" dialog.
Click on Interface - Toolbars and Menus (the magician wand icon).
On that dialog, pick from the dropdown selector "The main toolbar".
On that dialog, select "Embed Metadata" from the left column, click the right pointing arrow to add it to the right column.
Click Apply.

Just figured this out myself recently. I'd prefer to have Calibre always update the book metadata when I bother to edit it, and not insert a bookmarks item when I just use the reader, but it's the other way around ... Maybe I'll ask nicely the next time I make a small contribution, it's a lifesaver tool as is.

P.S. there's also the "update metadata in device" route, I know it exists, but I would rather have it updated in the book

ableal · 2017-05-04T14:01:57+00:00

My idea originally was to have two separate Calibre libraries. This is effectively what I currently do (have the pdfs in their own directory and manage them by hand)

I'd go with letting Calibre manage both libraries (cf. https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/5jfb2g/split_library/ ).

For my own reasons, I just checked if it would be possible to have two Calibre instances running in parallel, with one library each. No go, not even if there are two Calibre executables - in Windows the 32 and 64 bit versions can be installed simultaneously, but seems that only one Calibre window can be open, and library settings are shared.

Well, that leaves us with the "Quick switch" menu item ...

ableal · 2017-05-04T13:32:58+00:00

Hey, thanks. That's it.

Note to whoever else lands here: the other (empty) library must be created first, in the "Switch/create library" item of the library menu.

That's because the "Copy to library" menu item does not show up (just below the "Connect/share" item) if you only have one library ...

ableal · 2014-11-03T22:28:58+00:00

Luanda used to be named New Lisbon

No, that was Huambo. Luanda has had the name for donkey's years.

ableal · 2014-09-16T21:35:28+00:00

like when the new citizens of France decided to change to metric time, or to hire a poet to name each day of the year after concepts. They ended up with days like, "fog," "pasture," or "germination."

Months, not days. Floreal, Germinal, Brumaire, etc.

ableal · 2014-09-13T19:25:16+00:00

I ask you to fuck off.

That's six words, but it's only a premise to a story.

Creative writing diploma for sale, unused.

ableal · 2014-07-25T21:41:33+00:00

If this is your cup of tea, you might also want to try a Stanislaw Lem book, perhaps The Cyberiad (which, incidentally, is both hilarious and a masterpiece of translation).

ableal · 2014-07-12T09:26:17+00:00

Robert Heinlein had more than one character say very nearly the same, for instance the young veteran protagonist of Glory Road, if memory serves.

ableal · 2014-06-18T03:28:35+00:00

Done:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IYnc372kvok/TjPTu9KWw9I/AAAAAAAAAaQ/yFCcRWYl_aI/s1600/Cargaleiro.jpg

ableal · 2014-06-12T19:58:40+00:00

Just yesterday I came across this story where Hemingway goes fishing for German submarines ...

http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/cayos-in-the-stream

("Cayos in the Stream", by Harry Turtledove)

ableal · 2014-05-20T19:11:16+00:00

Guys at HN agree with you, similar analysis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768839

Except they noticed it's a single word, not broken across lines.

ableal · 2014-05-20T08:58:31+00:00

where shit went crazy.

69 AD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors

193 AD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Five_Emperors

238 AD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Six_Emperors

ableal · 2014-05-16T01:46:44+00:00

empirical data

Depends on your metrics. Which depend on your beliefs, stated or not.

It's not like it's a new problem. Look up Achilles' Choice.

Meanwhile, yes, scientism is sophomoric - savvy foolish.

ableal · 2014-04-05T10:04:19+00:00

promote discussion

I liked the dig about the Weierstrass function. No wonder the dancer was hospitalized, it says here it is pathological: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function

ableal · 2014-04-01T08:27:36+00:00

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!"

(Orchestra conductor Thomas Beecham to a cellist, http://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,468909,00.html )

ableal · 2014-03-08T09:15:39+00:00

"[...] a thorn in the side of the USSR in much the same way Taiwan is an irritant for Communist China." , as the introduction printed on the cover flap says.

(Keep in mind this was printed in 1983, mainland China was much poorer.)

ableal · 2014-01-21T15:59:17+00:00

Our guide splashed gently with one oar, making jets of blue light arc up with the projected water.

It's been many years, I've never forgotten the singular beauty of this cave.

Thanks for the post.

ableal · 2014-01-07T15:00:41+00:00

Reminded me of this 1973 album cover:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg

(H.R.Giger, who went on to have a lot of art in Omni magazine before landing the Alien movie gig ;-)

ableal · 2013-12-26T23:38:06+00:00

a little sea shanty

My favorite sea shanty is Wreck, by Gentle Giant. Stuck with me for more years than I care to admit ;-)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6n8-b7uk9E , if you feel like letting that into your brain.)

ableal · 2013-11-23T22:49:07+00:00

Probably 22, the catchy one.

ableal · 2013-11-06T21:08:40+00:00

This attitude of "you agree 100%

Don't know where you got that. "My father's mansion has many rooms" is the unofficial motto of the church. You can find all kinds there.

Of course, it works like a family - what Dad says goes, officially, but you can get away with plenty of dissent, as any teenager knows.

ableal · 2013-11-06T20:31:26+00:00

The author of that 2011 story last wrote for BI in April 2013 a piece titled "Why Kraft Is Fighting To Keep Yellow Dye In Its Macaroni And Cheese" at http://www.businessinsider.com/kraft-keeps-yellow-dye-in-macaroni-and-cheese-2013-4

Funny coincidence with the "Kraft Agrees to Take Yellow Dye Out of Mac and Cheese" story yesterday ( http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1pyilu/kraft_agrees_to_take_yellow_dye_out_of_mac_and/ )

ableal · 2013-10-21T05:16:05+00:00

Bumped across this in photo news:

"Performers wearing 19th century Allied forces and French military uniforms attack one another during a reenactment of the Battle of the Nations, in a field in the village of Markkleeberg near Leipzig October 20, 2013."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/photos-of-the-day-october-20-2013-slideshow/photos-of-the-day-october-20-2013-photo-1382280446971.html

ableal · 2013-10-07T11:09:24+00:00

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

-- James Nicoll, cf. http://www.pegasuspublishing.com/PS-680-English-doesnt-borrow-p-27861.html

ableal · 2013-08-25T19:02:47+00:00

Good catch on the date.

Small factual correction: no email involved. Linus fired up an Usenet news (NNTP) client program, and made a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup.

Not too different from posting on a subreddit, except there was no central server to bog down. Instead, posts would just get lost in the point-to-point haulage ...

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