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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