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# Books
This is a catalog of all the books in my calibre library!
If you see a title here you would like to borrow, let me know! I'd be happy to share :)
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## How To (For me)
- go to calibre and "convert books" -> "create a catalog...."
- save it to the dir
- `j all`
## How To (For you)
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If you want to browse the collection, I would look at `books.rec` .
If you're going to really explore this dataset, I recommend using the awesome csvkit.
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=> < https: / / csvkit . readthedocs . io / en / latest / index . html >
It will allow you to do stuff like:
- see the headers: `csvcut -n books.csv`
- and the see just the columns you want: `csvcut -c 13,4 books.csv`
- look at some stats: `csvcut -c languages,size,formats books.csv | csvstat`
- find the largest pdfs in the collection: `csvcut -c title_sort,formats,size books.csv | csvgrep -c formats -m pdf | csvsort -c size -r | head`
- `csvjson books.csv | jq | whatever`
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- show the most recently added books: `csvcut -c 13,1,3 books.csv | csvsort -c timestamp -r | head -n 20`
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- You can also perform actual SQL queries on it, and convert the data between csv and sqlite database: < https: // csvkit . readthedocs . io / en / latest / tutorial / 3_power_tools . html >
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## RSS feed
An RSS feed has been kindly provided by [the Rsszard of Syndication ](https://tilde.town/~lucidiot )
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and is available at https://git.tilde.town/dozens/books/raw/branch/main/feed.xml
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Generating the feed requires you to have Python 3.7 or later installed, as well
as the [xmltodict ](https://pypi.org/project/xmltodict ) package:
`pip3 install xmltodict` .
To generate the feed, run `./geenfeed.py <books.csv >lefeed.xml` .
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## TODO
- type definitions for Book
