Logos Library Reporter - revived after 10 years.

Hello dear community,

Who remembers Steve Clark's Logos Library Reporter, which gave us a helpful overview of our books and categories in Logos? Unfortunately, the author passed away in 2016, and the software tool could not be ported to new Logos versions.

Since I have had an account with AI Claude for quite some time, I had the idea of taking up Clark's idea and having Claude program an equivalent to Library Reporter for me. What can I say: I am thrilled. It worked. My nearly 22,100 books are now organized into 1,620 categories, grouped together, directly clickable, and open in Logos. Additional features were included according to my wishes, such as web search, notes, etc. So if you miss Logos Library Reporter as much as I did, you can easily get a good alternative. A Start.bat, a Logos-Lib.py, - its done! :-)

Best regards from the Black Forest, Germany!

Hermann

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Paul M

Hermann, this sounds interesting and useful. How do I get the files to install?

Bruce Dunning

Wow Herma

Hermann Fritz

Dear Paul and Bruce,
if you want, you can send me your email address so I can attach the two generated files. They are only 1 kb and 86 kb in size and open in my Brave browser. It accesses the catalog.db database: C:\Users\horitz\AppData\Local\Logos\Data\khcmunkm.gfz\LibraryCatalog\catalog.db
Output: C:\Users\horitz\Desktop\Logos_Bibliothek and retrieves all the important information from there. I have saved both files in the “Logos_Generator” path. The batch is started there and creates the folder ‘Meine_Logos_Bibliothek’ and the html file “Meine_Logos_Bibliothek.html” on the desktop.
The html opens in the browser and has all the functions that I specified via AI.
I don't know if Chat-GPT would program it similarly to Claude. Of course, every user has their own preferences, so it would be better to have it designed on your own PC. Since my system is tailored to my needs, there may be some (many?) error messages at the beginning. In that case, the paths on the recipient's PC would have to be adjusted, at least in the batch, maybe also in the Code of the py-file. Once the HTML file is loaded, it takes a few seconds (approximately 20 s) before everything is accessible. There are a lot of book covers, etc.

It sounds more difficult than it actually is.

Best regards and a peaceful and blessed Advent and Christmasseason!
Hermann
My email address: hermann.fritz@feg .de

GaoLu

Is this Python code? For easy customization, would be easy to have an ini file store selectable folders. I haven't looked at the code.

Mattillo

I don't understand what I lot of this is but would it work on a Mac?

Lew Worthington

Ahh, I remember the utility, but I had not thought about that in a long time.

I think I would like to explore this, too. Is this something you could upload to the forum?

Thank you!

Lew