Feature Request: Author Images

[zachjord]

I would like a way to manually add author images. Maybe just have an "authors" folder where the name of the image file matches the author name embedded in the ebooks?

[ghost]

@zacjor Yeah both manual and automatic images for authors make sense.

[sblinch]

@geek1011 have you given any consideration to how you'd like "persistent" data like this to be handled on the filesystem? I planned to implement support for fetching both author images and missing cover images from OpenLibrary (and other sources, pluggable in a manner similar to the ebook format plugins). But how would you want them stored on disk?

Would you be OK with creating subdirectories under the -tempdir path, for example, tempdir/covers/ for the album covers and thumbs, tempdir/authors/ for the author images and thumbs, tempdir/index/ for the index data, etc?

On a related note, sites like OpenLibrary usually implement rate limiting, so we wouldn't want the images to be blown away at exit and re-downloaded at every startup if the user passes -tempdir without creating it. What do you think about a -datadir option which creates the directory if it doesn't exist but NEVER deletes it on exit? Sort of a more permanent alternative to -tempdir. Thoughts?