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When a chapter is selected for reading it will be displayed in the text viewer. This enables the reader to scroll down the text either using the scrollbar or up and down arrow keys. Once the chapter has been read the user can either
When a chapter is selected for reading it will be displayed in the text viewer. This enables the reader to scroll down the text either using the scrollbar or up and down arrow keys. Once the chapter has been read the user can either
* Select "Close" to close the window
* Select "Close" to close the window
* Select "Mark As Read" to record that this chapter has been read and then close the window
* Select "Mark As Read" to record that this chapter has been read and then close the window
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Revision as of 08:11, 21 September 2015

eBooks
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robwebset/script.ebooks/master/icon.png

Author: robwebset

Type: Program
Repo:

License: GPL v2.0
Source: Source code
Summary: View eBooks
Home icon grey.png   ▶ Add-ons ▶ eBooks
Attention talk.png Need help with this add-on? See here.

Allows the viewing of eBooks



Introduction

eBooks is an addon that allows you to list and view your epub and mobi eBooks using Kodi. Only the text will be displayed, no images.

Supported book formats are

  • ePub
  • Mobi
  • PDF


On installation of the eBook addon it will need configuring to point to the directory that contains all of your eBook files. This can be done via the eBooks Settings, or if not set, you will be prompted on first use.

Book Listing

When entering the addon via the Programs Menu the available books will be listed in the format:

Author - Title


Any directories that exist will be displayed with their directory name and enclosed in square brackets. On selecting a book, the chapters in that book will be displayed (Note: If there are no chapters, then a single entry for the entire book will be displayed).

Any books or chapters that have been marked previously as read will start with an asterisk ("*").

Text Viewer

When a chapter is selected for reading it will be displayed in the text viewer. This enables the reader to scroll down the text either using the scrollbar or up and down arrow keys. Once the chapter has been read the user can either

  • Select "Close" to close the window
  • Select "Mark As Read" to record that this chapter has been read and then close the window
  • Select "<" (Or the Page Up key) to go back to the previous chapter
  • Select ">" (Or the Page Down key) to go to the next chapter



Cover Art

The cover art for a given book is retrieved in the following order:

  1. A jpg file in the same directory as the book with the same name (i.e. a book with the name mybook.epub and an image with the name mybook.jpg)
  2. An image that has previously been cached from a book (Based on the file name of the book)
  3. Extracted internal image from the book file
  4. The default cover image set in the eBooks settings screen.



Debugging

If reporting a problem, please also provide a debug log. To do this you need to enable BOTH:

  • Kodi logging from the main setting menu
  • eBooks debug from the eBooks addon settings menu

Please do not paste the log into the forum thread, just link to it.

Donations

If you have found the eBooks Addon useful and would like to help support future development and bug fixes, then please feel free to make a small donation.

Please use the link on the top of the eBooks Forum