evil calibre?

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 14:11 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> Isn't there an unwritten law prohibiting document viewers changing the
> documents they open?
> 
> If there is, ebook-viewer, part of calibre, doesn't respect it:
> 
> diff -r m/META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt m1/META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt
> 1c1
> < calibre_current_page_bookmark^7# *:eq(0)  > *:eq(1)  > *:eq(0)  >
> *:eq(4)  > *:eq(6) |0.19047619047619047
> ---
> > calibre_current_page_bookmark^15# *:eq(0)  > *:eq(1)  > *:eq(0)  > *:eq(8)  > *:eq(43) |0.3619791666666667
> 
> The directories that I compared contain unzipped versions of the same
> epub file before and after an invocation of ebook-viewer. Probably
> calibre_bookmarks.txt was put in the epub file by ebok-viewer in the
> first place.
> 
> Now one could say, that this is harmless, because it doesn't change
> the way the epub file will appear in any reader. But it changes
> filesize and timestamp, enough to make backup  software notice.
> 
> Hopefully, unchecking the "Remember the current page when quitting" in
> the Preferences is a workaround, but even then, it's just a
> workaround. ebook-viewer is welcome to have its own little database of
> bookmarks, but shouldn't annotate my books.


This would best be reported to Calibre's upstream bug tracker:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre


They're a very responsive upstream, so I imagine you'll get a prompt
answer.
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