To add the possibility to split imports

[thelittleblackbird]

I think it would be a good idea to have the option to split the input when importing an EPUB by chapters.

Some books are long and cumbersome when learning a new language and the ability to split them seems to be a good choice. Right now the split via the word count is not reliable.

and when i say epub i mean any format that could be have some internal structure.

what do you think?

note, I checked and i didnt see any feature request like this one in the database

[cblanken]

This is a probably a duplicate of issue #396 mostly. Due to performance considerations, imports must be split into relatively small sections and will eventually be relabeled to "pages" from "chapters" to more accurately reflect their size.

To solve the chapter navigation, there are plans to implement a table of contents for EBooks on top of a more generic bookmark system that will allow automatically importing EBook bookmarks.

[thelittleblackbird]

ummm, perhaps i didnt explain myself well enough.

I would like to import an ebook into the app and the app is splitting the book by chapters automatically, making it possible to read a single chapter.
Those chapters could be bigger than the limit of words (3000?) suggested by the app, but this is not relevant. What it would be nice is that the chapters are separated treated inside the app.

Example: Right now i have some books about short stories for learning german, every story is different and they are self contained in the chapters. If I want to imnport this book the lecture is not pleasant because the 3000 word limit would chop the chapters in any line, making the process a bit complicated. If the import process could by chapter split the book into "reading chunks" would be fantastic.

And honestly is not duplicated from #396, but i see it as related.
Regards

[cblanken]

Oh I see. That could probably be done. Though I doubt there will ever be a shift away from the reading by pages functionality. But chopping up the pages such that they begin and end at chapter boundaries should be possible assuming the Epub has an accurate table of contents.

[thelittleblackbird]

that would be really nice to have.
Thanks