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 :)

How To (For me)

• go to calibre and "convert books" -> "create a catalog...."
• save it to the dir
• j all

How To (For you)

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.

=> 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
• show the most recently added books: csvcut -c 13,1,3 books.csv | csvsort -c timestamp -r | head -n 20
• 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

RSS feed

An RSS feed has been kindly provided by the Rsszard of Syndication and is available at https://git.tilde.town/dozens/books/raw/branch/main/feed.xml

Generating the feed requires you to have Python 3.7 or later installed, as well as the xmltodict package: pip3 install xmltodict.

To generate the feed, run ./geenfeed.py <books.csv >lefeed.xml.

TODO

• type definitions for Book