Upgrade StorageMy own cover view with Calibre and Zotero
I miss the cover view from Calibre in Zotero and am trying to regenerate the experience in a clumsy way using both. For this, I create a file called ISBN.url in a text editor and enter something like
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URL=zotero://open-pdf/library/items/ITEM_ID
where ITEM_ID is the string naming the subfolder in which the PDF is stored within the Zotero storage folder. I name the file after the ISBN (string of numbers without hyphen or special characters) and then add this file.url in Calibre as if it was a book.
I do this for a bunch of files. In calibre, I run a bulk metadata edit with Search mode "Regular Expression", Search Field "Title", Search For "".*"", Destination Field "Identifiers", Identifier Type "ISBN". This adds the ISBN to the right field. Afterwards, I run a "Download metadata and covers".
This works quite well for me and crucially seems to work on Windows and MacOS. What is important for me is that a single click on the cover image opens the file within Zotero at the page where I stopped reading last time. I had previously tried other deep links (e.g. zotero select) but there, it seemed to require additional clicks.
I wonder if there are some enthusiasts around here who also miss the cover view in Zotero. Perhaps someone with better skills than mine is interested to create a script which goes through a list of Zotero references and creates the above files?
[InternetShortcut]
URL=zotero://open-pdf/library/items/ITEM_ID
where ITEM_ID is the string naming the subfolder in which the PDF is stored within the Zotero storage folder. I name the file after the ISBN (string of numbers without hyphen or special characters) and then add this file.url in Calibre as if it was a book.
I do this for a bunch of files. In calibre, I run a bulk metadata edit with Search mode "Regular Expression", Search Field "Title", Search For "".*"", Destination Field "Identifiers", Identifier Type "ISBN". This adds the ISBN to the right field. Afterwards, I run a "Download metadata and covers".
This works quite well for me and crucially seems to work on Windows and MacOS. What is important for me is that a single click on the cover image opens the file within Zotero at the page where I stopped reading last time. I had previously tried other deep links (e.g. zotero select) but there, it seemed to require additional clicks.
I wonder if there are some enthusiasts around here who also miss the cover view in Zotero. Perhaps someone with better skills than mine is interested to create a script which goes through a list of Zotero references and creates the above files?