A calibre plugin that generates Word Wise and X-Ray files then sends them to Kindle. Supports KFX, AZW3 and MOBI eBooks.
Languages X-Ray supports: Català, Dansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Lietuvių, Nederlands, Norsk bokmål, Polski, Português, Română, Ελληνικά, Македонски, Русский, 中文, 日本語.
X-Ray doesn't support macOS, because macOS prohibits calibre from loading unsigned library.
Please read CONTRIBUTING.
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Install 64bit calibre
- Arch Linux
# pacman -Syu --needed calibre- Other Linux distros
$ sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin- macOS: use Homebrew or download from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_osx
$ brew install calibre- Windows: use Chocolatey or download from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64
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Install Python(pip) for X-Ray
- Arch Linux
# pacman -Syu --needed python-pip- Debian or Ubuntu based distro
$ sudo apt install python3-pip- Windows: use Chocolatey or download from https://www.python.org/downloads
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Install WordDumb:
install.mov
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Install KFX Input plugin for KFX books(optional if you don't use this format).
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Set preferences
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Enable "search people" option for nonfiction books and novels that have character pages on Wikipedia to add people descriptions in X-Ray.
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Larger spaCy model has higher Named-entity recognition precision therefore improves X-Ray quality, more details at https://spacy.io/models/en
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preferences.mov
- Connect Kindle to calibre, select one book or multiple books then click the plugin icon or menu.
usage.mov
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Don't add soft hyphens, it will cause the plugin to produce mediocre Word Wise and X-Ray files.
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This plugin requires access to https://files.pythonhosted.org (download X-Ray dependencies), https://raw.githubusercontent.com (download spaCy model), and https://wikipedia.org (X-Ray descriptions). These domains might be blocked in some countries(Censorship of Wikipedia, Censorship of GitHub).
This work is licensed under GPL version 3 or later.
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