• Calibre 0.7.* is supported and should work,
• installation and distribution method has completely changed, the package is now available from pypi, so can be easy_install-ed.

One of the nice Calibre options is that once you enter a book ISBN, plenty of useful information (canonical versions of author name and book title, description, cover, even tags) can be downloaded automatically. But, for some reason, the application does not detect ISBN. I repeated the sequence open a book, go a page or a few down, copy ISBN, go back to Calibre, open book data, paste ISBN a few times and decided it is boring and could be automated.

So I wrote a short script which performs this very action.

So far I pushed two projects there:

• Google password is not stored as a plain text anymore, instead it is saved in GNOME Keyring, KDE Kwallet, or other platform specific password storage.
• manual edits of feeds.ini are no longer necessary, the script just prompts for the necessary parameters on the first run.

Still, while I am happy with Google Reader as a reader, I am by far less excited with it's management functions. Renaming feeds, reorganizing folders, disabling feeds, replacing them with alternative versions, etc - all those functions are difficult, or not present.

So I wrote a small script which let me export my subscriptions as a simple text file, manage them in the usual text editor and save edits back to Google Reader.