calibre-rpc

Calibre RPC is a plugin for the e-book manager Calibre to enable Discord Rich Presence.

This project was inspired by Split.

Features

• Displays a browsing message when Calibre is opened, including the number of books in the current library.
• Displays the most recent book and its author opened by Calibre's ebook reader.
• Displays the most recent book and its author opened by Calibre's ebook editor.

Installation

1. Download the latest release.
2. Go into Calibre and select Preferences -> Plugins -> Loan plugin from file -> select the zip you downloaded.
3. Restart Calibre.

Development

Windows

• Clone this repository and install make.
• Open the repository in Visual Studio Code, or your preferable IDE, and run make install to get the calibre source or to update your current source.
• Set the CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM system environment variable to a local installation of calibre's source code, which should now be in the directory under calibre.
• Set the Path system environment variable to your local installation of Calibre, typically C:\Program Files\Calibre2.
• To build the plugin from source, run make compile inside the terminal.
• To export the plugin as a zip, run make zip.

To learn more about plugin development, there are quick tutorials found on the calibre website.

Goals

• Display the current page out of the total pages calculated by Calibre's ebook reader.
• Display the current file being edited in Calibre's ebook editor.
• Update the size of the library shown by the presence in real-time.

Credits

The image found in this README.md originates from Calibre's source. The discord icon used for this plugin is from freepnglogos. This plugin makes use of pypresence to allow a user to showcase their current Calibre activity within Discord.