ebookconverter 0.11.0

The Project Gutenberg tool to orchestrate ebook generation.

# ebookconverter code that orchestrates ebook conversion for project gutenberg

EbookConverter manages the creation and update of ebook assets for Project Gutenberg. It uses a postgres database to keep track of both ebook metadata and ebook files. the postgress database is managed by the libgutenberg package.

The cron-rebuild-files.sh script runs as a cron job, rebuilding 2100 books per day, so as to rebuild every book roughly once a month.

ebookconverter talks to the gutenberg database to build a list of ebookmaker jobs. These jobs require some metadata about the book, and a target file to process.

ebookconverter expects source files to be in numbered directories in a ‘files’ directory. The location of the files directory is given by the FILESDIR config parameter.

Config parameters should be set in a file at /etc/ebookconverter.conf or ~/.ebookconverter

ebookconverter has been tested on Python 3.9.

see the Ebookmaker Readme for system package dependencies: <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/ebookmaker/blob/master/README.md>

## Installing

pipenv install ebookconverter

The following directories should exist:

• $PRIVATE/logs

• $PRIVATE/logs/json

• $PRIVATE/logs/json/backup

• $PRIVATE/logs/notifications

• $PRIVATE/logs/dopush

• $PRIVATE/logs/dopush/backup

## Using the EbookConverter Scripts

you can run these commands either by first entering a pipenv shell or on a single line using pipenv run <command> <args>

Rebuild one or more books ebookconverter –range=<start>-<finish> –build=all ebookconverter –range=<booknumber> –build=all ebookconverter –range=<booknumber> –build=all –validate

Reload metadata from a workflow json file (use with care, it will overwrite any metadata in the DB) reload_workflow <booknumber>

Regenerate the csv file make_csv

Look for any ebooks with changed files in the last X days and then check if any of the previously known files of that ebook have been deleted.

autodelete