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News and Web

Add from the Web

Click + → Add from the Web and paste an address.

  • A page address becomes a readable book, to read later. Images are included.
  • A feed address (RSS, Atom or JSON Feed) becomes a news book of its latest articles.

The new book lands in your library like any other and can be read, edited and sent to a device.

Online catalogues

Menu → Online Catalogues browses OPDS catalogues. Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks are listed; the + button adds others, such as a Calibre server (http://host:8080/opds) or another Bookx that shares its library. A user name and password are only needed when the server asks for them; they are sent to that server only, and the password is kept in the system keyring.

Open a catalogue, follow the folders (Back returns), search with the search entry, and press Add on a book. Bookx downloads the best format on offer (EPUB, then KEPUB, AZW3, MOBI, FB2, CBZ, PDF) and imports it like any other file. Long lists end with Load more. Limits: no sign-in pages other than basic authentication, no paid or borrowed books (the DRM-protected ones are refused by the importer), and the built-in catalogues need network access.

News subscriptions

Open News Subscriptions to have Bookx build a news book for you on a schedule. You find it in two places: the + menu and on the welcome page of an empty library.

  1. Press Add. Give it a name (the refresh button next to the name takes it from the feed).
  2. Enter one or more feed addresses, one per line. A line starting with # switches a feed off. You can also import an OPML file.
  3. Choose the number of articles per feed, and whether to download full articles (each article's web page instead of the feed text).
  4. Choose the schedule: manual, hourly, daily, or weekly, with a time of day (HH:MM, in your local time) and, for weekly, a day.
  5. Choose issues to keep. Older issues are removed from the library after a download.

Each download becomes a new book tagged News. Download Now and Download All Due are in the window. A failed download is shown in the list and waits for the next slot instead of retrying every minute.

Subscriptions are stored in news.json next to the settings file.

Limitations

  • Scheduled downloads only run while Bookx is open. There is no background service.
  • Downloads need network access.
  • There are no scripted "recipes" like Calibre's; each subscription is a list of feeds.
  • Only the newest Issues to keep issues are kept; the older ones are removed by Bookx.