[Alexandria-list] iPod Notes support [PATCH]

[Joseph Method]

Hi Timothy,

Looks good to me. If you would like to commit it yourself you can
email me your Rubyforge username and I'll give you commit rights.

On Jan 16, 2008 2:36 PM, Timothy Malone <timothy.malone at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I finally decided that nobody else was gonna code support for this
> (especially since I've never asked), and no other Linux program that I
> found could do it either, so I bit the bullet and added it myself. This
> is a feature that I used to like in Books.app for the Mac.
>
> It exports your books as iPod note files. It works by making a .linx
> file that includes links to each book in your library (they are given
> the numerical identifiers that Alexandria uses internally to avoid
> filename problems with certain characters (':' for instance)). Each of
> those notes includes the title, author, edition, and isbn. Also, if you
> have cover images, it will make the title into a link to the cover
> image. The iPod should fail gracefully if a book doesn't have a cover
> image. The images will only work on 5th generation and above iPods with
> firmware version 1.2 and above. I don't know how earlier iPods will
> respond (or the Touch for that matter. Does it even have notes?).
> Perhaps a checkbox in the file dialog would be good? Maybe just two
> export entries, "iPod Notes with photos" and "iPod Notes without
> photos".
>
> Also, iPods can only handle 1,000 notes. I'm not sure, but I will try to
> find out, if the cover images count towards that total.
> Basically, support is somewhat limited. I personally use it to keep a
> list of books I am looking for when I go shopping.
>
> To use, simply go to export, choose "iPod Notes", navigate to your iPod
> (it must be mounted and have disk access enabled), navigate to the Notes
> folder, and pick a name for the list.
>
> Oh, and this is the first time I've ever even looked at Ruby code, so
> please forgive the glaring errors I'm sure I made. Though I must say I
> already like Ruby quite a bit. This patch took all of 45 minutes to
> make, including time spent figuring out how to structure the iPod Notes.
> Though mostly I copied code from the other exporters.
>
> Tim Malone
>
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