As we know, Calibre only updates the metadata stored in the EPUB files with the metadata from its database when exporting a book via "Send to device" or when downloading from the native Calibre Content Server.
That means that the metadata in the files downloaded from the BicBucStriim app does not replicate the information in the database and might even be incorrect.
It would therefor be nice to implement on the fly metadata update for EPUB downloads.
A PHP class doing just that can be found here:
https://github.com/splitbrain/php-epub-meta

Is there any way you could add the ability to email books from the web interface? I usually get books to my kindle by the send to address....Right now I download and then email them but having this built in would be great. It could be fairly easy if you entered the details of your gmail account and just used their smtp relay (could probably limit it to just that). This may be beyond the scope of what you are looking to do, but figured I would throw it out there.

This is a great piece of software that has an excellent user interface. Thank you for all your hard work. Thanks.

A few enhancements before I release a Synology SPK for this cool software please:

• Fix French translation Acceuil -> Accueil
• Fix typo Passwort when attempting to download an ebook protected by password
• Put a clear warning when openbase_dir restriction is in effect so the user will know he has something to do to fix this
• Tag latest versions or put it in the download section on GitHub so it can be downloaded easily

That's really minor but currently prevents me to release the SPK.

Thanks, hope this will be fixed soon

To enable paging trough a list of books with the same tag:

In index.php:963 the url should be:

'url' => 'tags/'.$id,

instead of

'url' => 'tag/'.$id,

Hello to All!
I installed BicBucStriim and everything looks fine so far. Only problem: I need to add " index.php "to the URL. If I just try http:///bbs I can see the nice user interface but clickin on a button only reports "error loading page". Using http:///bbs/index.php does show some text user interface but I can see my books. Any Ideas?
I have added " :/volume1/ebook "to my open_basedir. Calibre database is directly located in /volume1/ebook.

Thank you!

VoRe

I am using bbs with calibre to run a library of shared (physical) books between a group of parents. I have assigned the books extra columns in calibre to keep track of who owns which book and who currently has it. I know this is outside the initial scope of bbs/calibre but I haven't seen any library software that beats this combo for what I am doing.. So my question is: Will there be any way to display extra info when you have clicked on a book? I don't need these to be sort options but it would be perfect if the info was displayed when looking at the book details page..

Thanks for the amazing work..
-Josh

I was trying to download some books (pdf and mobi) on android through chrome and everything seems to work....except when the actual download happens, it just shows the file as and never actually downloads anything. I have tried this in two different devices all running Android Jelly Bean 4.2.1. Any ideas?

Currently a page has 30 elements. Add a configuration option to change the size.

Enhancement:
Let the admin create users with a different password.

For example i host this for my family.
I want some security, so i would like to have a different password for the users.
One password for downloads is not so handy.

I use BicBucStriim on two synology j model's and it takes some time when you browse the books due to creating the thumbnails.

I found this the easies to click on a label and wait for the thumbnails to be created, click on another label and wait again and so on untill BicBucStriim has created all the thumbnails.

It would be perfect if there would be an option to create all the thumbnails from your complete calibre library with one button in the admin menu.

Make it possible to change the name at the admin Page.
Now I changed it at the index.php but it would be nice to make it possible tru the admin page.

Maybe I have something setup wrong, but thumbnails are not showing up and there is also no downloadlink available. Titles are shown etc.
I have tried 3 scenario's:
calibre db in root of folder where books are stored; /share/HDA_DATA/Data/EbookBibliotheek
db in separate folder; /share/HDA_DATA/Data/CalibreLibrary
db inside folder which is part of bookfolder; /share/HDA_DATA/Data/EbookBibliotheek/CalibreLibrary,

Can it have to do with rights of a process?

Make it possible to install with git, thus making updates as simple as a git pull.

Hi Rainer,

Over the weekend, I used BicBucStriim with various devices (incl. iPhone 4S, 5, iPad 2,3 and Kindle 4th gen.), and there is one thing I would like to suggest to you:

As you know, it could be hard to navigate through the books if you have a device with no touch navigation - as I have e.g. with the Kindle 4 (no touch, just buttons).
So it would be great to see, in which formats (epub, mobi...) a book is available. Otherwise you have to navigate through the end, just to see under download that there is no xx fomat, which you'd like to have.

I have made a quick scribble, to show you what I mean.
Preview of available formats (in this case, it's "epub" and "mobi"):

What do you think about such an enhancement?

Please add the function to browse to the next 30 most recent books

Would it be possible to have the possibility to define multiple passwords to allow download. Then i could grant someone download, without having to change the 'default' download password. after that remove the additional temporary password...

Hi,
Maybe this is a bug?

My settings:

• bbs folder is in "web"
• open_basedir on synology added: :/volume1/Books/Calibre Library
• my book folder is outside "web", here: /volume1/Books/Calibre Library
• on bbs config, i added this as path to Calibre library: /volume1/Books/Calibre Library
• password protection of downloads is enabled

The problem:

• after typing the password, the browser redirects me to "/web"

Is it because of wrong settings, or is it a bug?
thanks for your help.

Greetings,
BuzzDee

by the way: BicBucStriim is the most fantastic synology app, i have seen for years. great work !

First of all, Thank you for such a wonderful program. It really is impressive.

An observation..

Example: When I type "biography" (without the quotes) I get search results as expected. But if I type "biography " (again without the quotes) -Note the space after the word - I get a different set of search results. Usually fewer results.

Not a problem to me but my wife often uses autocomplete when typing. This means she will usually get a space inserted after each autocompleted word. As such she is likely to get incomplete search results. She prefers to use autocomplete as much as she can. It is easy enough to hit the backspace button once to delete the space , but it is easy to forget to do that as well.

Question: Is there any way I could configure the search to automatically ignore the final space after the last search term? Or, insert a bit of code that will delete a final space if detected? That latter option is beyond my skills at the moment but I intend to start learning a bit of php programming when I get the time.

And thanks again.

Die Funktion "seriesDetails" gibt momentan (0.9.1) die Bücher einer Reihe in der Reihenfolge wieder, wie sie als ID in der Datenbank gespeichert sind. (bicbucstriim.php - Zeilen 521 bis 531).

In meiner Variante werden die Bücher anhand des Indexes der Serie sortiert, was ich bei Buchreihen durchaus für sinnvoll halte.

Returns a series and the related books function
seriesDetails($id) {
$series = $this->findOne('Series', 'select * from series where id='.$id);
if (is_null($series)) return NULL;
$books = $this->find('Book', 'select BSL.book, Books.* from books_series_link BSL, books Books where Books.id=BSL.book and series='.$id.' order by series_index'); return array('series' => $series, 'books' => $books); }

It does not seem to be working, I just get an error page when I try to go to server/bbs/odps

Please add the search form in the home view, and make it global search (across books, authors etc.)

In your README.md there is a line:
NOTE: If you don't want to use the directory name bbs simply change the included .htaccess file accordingly

What does this mean?
I can't find a reference to the bbs folder in the file

In the list of books, none of the thumbnails is showing. When I click a book, the picture is there, am I missing something?

I am using a Synology NAS and I am really interested in the send to email feature in 1.1. I have it installed, but I think it may not be possible to enable this on Synology? I think that PHPMail requires sendmail to be configured. Is this accurate? Is anyone using a Synology and be willing to share configuration steps if it is possible. Thanks.

Hi,

I installed BicBucstriim on my Synology NAS. I patched the php open_dir variable with the dir '/volume1/books'. But after trying to save the admin paswoord and calibre library path I get
'The configured Calibre directory cannot be used. Is it really a Calibre directory? Is it readable? Does it exist?'

I copied data.db from the data dir to /volume1/books and I even added the data dir of the application to the php open_dir variable.

I also rebooted the NAS.

Still no luck starting the program.

Anyone with a clue ?

Ben

Please add the ability to not only browse by page, but also by choosing a letter (or number) from a list (maybe split the result screen?)

Hi,

I am looking forward to the next version (0.9.4 ?) of BicBucStriim.
Is there a HowTo or just a brief explanation how to update from a previous version?
e.g. which files changed, and have to be replaced or replace all files or, run update.php or....whatever.
I think this might be helpful...

Greetings,
BuzzDee

See #27. If there is a problem saving the configuration in the admin page, redirect to install check. It's probably a open_basedir problem.

I encountered an align problem.

I searched for a writer. This writer had a lot of books (4 pages)
When I went to the second page of his books I saw this problem.
"Next" and "Back" (e.g. "volgende" and "Terug" in Dutch) are displayed on top of each other.

See image

I used an Safari on an IPad with latest iOS.

Is it possible to password protect certain books that are not suitable for kids based on tag name?
If only books with tag name 'Not for kids' can only be viewed and downloaded by password.

Should this be easy to integrate?

OPDS feed does not validate in http://validator.w3.org/feed.

Invalid XML might be the reason Aldiko Ebook-Reader is crashing on me when browsing BicBuc OPDS feed.

I also discovered that the cover image is not displayed on the books detail page (OPDS), because only the thumbnail URL is supplied but not the image URL.
Missing:

 <link (...) rel="http://opds-spec.org/image"/>

the ../data/data.db file contains the paswords in readable format. Is ther a way to secure this file for unwanted eyes??

Bonjour, si la base de donnée est importante, le programme ne répond plus lorsqu'on clique sur livres ou auteurs, il faudrait fractionner en page de 50 titres par exemple.
Sinon, le programme est super.
Hello, if the database is large, the program stops responding when you click on books or authors, should be split into top 50 titles for example.
Otherwise the program is great.
Hallo, wenn die Datenbank sehr groß ist, reagiert das Programm nicht, wenn man auf Bücher oder Autoren, sollten in Top-50-Titeln zum Beispiel gesplittet werden.
Ansonsten ist das Programm toll.

Sorry for the traduction with google, I'm french.
Is you want, I can try to translate te program in french langage
Have a good day

Line 936 of index.php incorrectly has: 'url' => 'tag/'.$id,

This need to be changed to: 'url' => 'tags/'.$id,

I read mainly sf and fantasy books and most of them are serie books. For example a serie with 12 books (book 1 to book 12 for example).

I find it almost impossible now to see which book comes first in the serie. Hope you can combine this with the metadata request here.

I apologize for the amateur question, but I'm really looking forward to using this on a Buffalo Linkstation LS-VL NAS with Optware, however I'm having an issue with the install.

The NAS comes with a preloaded webserver, lighttpd I believe. PHP Version 5.2.10-pl0-gentoo with fastcgi enabled. I've followed the installation, but navigating to http://192.168.1.111:81/bbs results in the below error. I believe this may have something to do with the way the webserver was preinstalled, but I'm not sure where to look. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

Warning: require_once(DIR/composer/autoload_real.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/htdocs/bbs/vendor/autoload.php on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'DIR/composer/autoload_real.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/php') in /www/htdocs/bbs/vendor/autoload.php on line 5

• At first run, I have a nice error message telling me to install again. Would be nice to be redirected to the admin page at first run
• In the admin page, each time I try to save settings I get an error: "Error loading page"

As mentioned in http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2380982&postcount=4 the logging library ignores the settings for production. Lots of debug messages appear in production logs.

Quick fix, add the following lines in index.php, before line 112:

$app = Slim::getInstance();                                                             
$log = $app->getLog();                                                                  
$log->setEnabled(false); 

Real fix: upgrade Slim Framework to version 2+

Thank you for this very handy program. I installed it on my Synology (web directory) and it works grea!

The only question I have is that I am not able to secure the admin page. I did enter a password.

But when I connect tot the webpage (on a different computer) and I want to change the settings via the admin page, teh admin password dialog comes on with a filled in paswordt (with asterixs) . If I just click enter, I will enter the admin page, so everybody can change this. What do i wrong ?

withe regards, Bernard (NL)

Would it be possible to have the user add metadata to book titles. Like rating, read, want to read, comments etc. Maybe adding a small sqlite db for user metadata would make that possible without having to use the original calibre sqlite db.

Swipe between between detail or list pages

Hi,

In the overviews it's not always clear what language a book is in.
I have Dutch, English, German and French books in there.

Sometimes the title is clear, but often not:

"Brown, Dan - Inferno" : Is the same in different languages

Could you:

• Show the language in the books overview
  like you already do with the book Format (EPUB / MOBI / ...)
  So we can pick the right one for download, email, etc...
• Possibly allow for filtering on the Language
  Preferably as a secondary filter like:
  Searching for Author "Brown"
  Listing books by Brown, Dan
  Have an option to show books in:
  + all Languages or
  + one specific Language
  With a dropdown list of available Languages
  for books of current author.
  o All
  o nl
  o en

Regards, Martin

Is it posible to make BBS speaks Dutch?
I'll like to help and do translations, pleas tell me how to start :)

Removed

Hi,

I encountered an error in the creation process of the thumbnails:
In admin section, the "Clip thumbnails" button is set to "yes":

The Bug:

• Some thumbnails are not created
• No image in Detail-View

Here's a screenshot of the different views:

In the folder "data", no thumbnail for the relevant book (this case ID 335) exists.

The original cover image in the Calibre Library is an ordinary jpeg file.
Even changing the cover image in Calibre, doesnt affect BicBucStriim!
It's just not created....

Did you encounter this behaviour before, or could you give me some hints how to test this further... ?

Thanks,
BuzzDee

Add list functions to most recent page to navigate titles by time (backwards)

Hi,

Calibre just introduced 'Virtual Libraries' in Version: 0.9.28

     See: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/virtual_libraries.html

It would be nice if in BBS you could choose a Virtual Library too.
And set one (or NONE) that should be used as default.

Regards, Martin

Hi Rainer,

There's another thing that comes into my mind, when it comes to the scalability of BicBucStriim.
Can BicBucStriim handle thousands of files without any effects on loading speed, memory leaks or whatever? Well, with some hundreds of books it works quite well now - but what happens if you've got e.g. 10.000 books?

Greetings,
BuzzDee

1. Drop the current download protection system and replace it with a login-based, multi-user system, making the system more secure for Internet use
2. A valid login implies automatically download of books, no extra passwords necessary
3. A poor man's version of virtual libraries: logins can have tag and/or language selections that restrict the books they can view

Hi, I justed 'installed' BicBusStriim on my nas. (it says v 0.9.2 on the bottom of the page)

When I go to http://nas/bbs I get the configuration screen. But I'm not able to save my settings.
It keeps telling me: 'error loading page' after I've filled in the Calibre library path (being /volume1/ebooks) and hitting 'save'. So I didn't change anything else.

My bbs/data dir is set to '777' so it should be writable.