Support for Booklore/boookdrops

[kasi-mir33]

Thank you for this awesome tool!

Any plans to create an option to be able to integrate more seamlesly with Booklore? As far as I know the only way to get books to show up there is by putting them in the bookdrop folder or uploading them manually. 

I have tested it a bit and hardlinking doesn't seem to work, copying is fine though for ebook file sizes. 

If there was a library organizer option to copy the files into a specific directory (the bookdrop folder) without subfolder structures it would be perfect.

Like so:

[[library]]
category = "booklore"
library_dir = "/mnt/data/media/booklore/bookdrop"
method = "flatcopy"

Then Booklore could handle the rest.

[StirlingMouse]

I am a bit interested in booklore support eventually, however every time I've look at it, it seems a bit early so far.
Just dropping the books in the bookdrop folder kind of looses the point of MLM. With ABS, MLM makes sure the books show up in ABS with good metadata, but just adding files to the bookdrop folder leaves the metadata to Booklore and gives it very little to go on.
When booklore is stable enough I'd like an integration on pair with ABS where book go directly into the libray with good metadata.

For using bookdrop, you can direclty point it at the downloads folder and does not need MLM in the middle

[Ionshard]

@StirlingMouse I would also be interested in Booklore or Calibre/CWA support, both of which use an import directory.

You state that:

Just dropping the books in the bookdrop folder kind of looses the point of MLM. With ABS, MLM makes sure the books show up in ABS with good metadata, but just adding files to the bookdrop folder leaves the metadata to Booklore and gives it very little to go on.

However, the very first line of the README.md for MLM is (emphasis mine):

MLM is both an auto downloader and a library organizer. Both parts are optional so either can be replaced with e.g. RSS or booktree if you prefer.

I think supporting copying the files to an import folder and not handling the metadata to be directly inline with that statement. I want to use MLM as an auto downloader and I want to replace the optional "library organizer" part with Booklore.

[StirlingMouse]

you can still use the autodownloader, configure a qbit category that saves in the booklore import folder, and make MLM set that category on the downloads

[Ionshard]

You're right, I can use MLM to only get files into qbit. However, I cannot have qbit download into booklore or CWA's import folder. It's more like an ingest folder. You drop a file into the folder and then CWA will move and rename the file. This means the file in the import folder is lost and so qbit will stop being able to seed the file. To actually handle this in qbit we'd need a script to run to only copy the file to the import folder when completed but to continue to seed it from the original location.

Now I am not at all suggesting this limitation outside of MLM is at all the responsibility MLM 🤣 I was just excited when I saw this issue request because getting it would solve a bunch of problems that I would have to do manually otherwise and to me "flatcopy" verses "copy" seemed like a logical extension of the program.