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DobyTang / LazyLibrarian

This project isn't finished yet. Goal is to create a SickBeard, CouchPotato, Headphones-like application for ebooks. Headphones is used as a base, so there are still a lot of references to it.
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Cover Page # for Individual Magazine Issues #1562

Closed MrMxyzptlk closed 5 years ago

MrMxyzptlk commented 5 years ago

Love how LL is working, thank you!

The option to choose which page to use for a magazines cover page is excellent; however I have quite a few magazines where the correct cover is page 1 but some issues on page 2 for the same mag.

Could we have an option to choose the cover page for each issue?

Thank you again...

philborman commented 5 years ago

It's probably a fairly rare thing to need to do, so I don't think it is worth creating an extra option for each issue. Most mags consistently use the same page. You can change the cover for an individual issue two ways in lazylibrarian at the moment, api or config.

For config option, mark all the issues of a mag that need page 2 cover and "Remove" from database, change magazine to use page 2 in config, libraryscan the magazine again and the removed ones will be added back with a new cover page. Change config back to page 1 or whichever is "normal" for that mag.

For the api option, call createMagCover&page=2&refresh&file="/full/path/to/issue.pdf" Refresh option overwrites existing cover.

Note that your browser might still cache the old cover so ctrl-f5 or whatever to reload the page ignoring cache

MrMxyzptlk commented 5 years ago

OK, thanks for the guidance.

MrMxyzptlk commented 5 years ago

I just came up with an idea that may be easy for you to implement? That would keep me from spending so much time maintaining which page an issue uses. You have added the 'New Cover' option as a drop down; how about after selecting some issues, and then clicking 'New Cover', have a popup that asks for a page #? That would keep me from having to delete the issues with the wrong covers, go to filters and temporarily change page number for covers. re-scan mag, and then, change cover page number back.

philborman commented 5 years ago

The magazines I use here all seem to be either page 1 or page 2 for cover image, no other numbers used. If there are only two options it would be easier to add both to the current dropdown?

MrMxyzptlk commented 5 years ago

Yes, that is what I have found as well. Let er rip...thanks!