<pclass="lead">Temporary Indexing is an experimental tool for printing, reading and sharing our personal library collections. It makes PDFs of printable catalogue cards from database files produced by installations of Calibre. It is intended to be used in "print parties", social events where we print indices and share our collections in an intimate, one-to-one setting. The tool encourages us to read and edit our libraries as an index made in a moment of printing, sharing, meeting, reading, making public.</p>
<pclass="display-6">How to use it</p>
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<liclass="lead">Upload a valid metadata.db file</li>
<liclass="lead">Choose which side, a or b, to include fields for title, author, timestamp, commments and tags</li>
<liclass="lead">Click "generate" to produce an imposed A4 PDF</li>
<liclass="lead">Download, print and cut your PDF in to A6 double-sided cards on paper of your choice</li>
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Temporary Indexing runs on tools such as Flask, SQLite, pdfcpu, ReportLab and the Python module <ahref="https://pypi.org/project/temp-index/"target="blank">temp-index</a>. It is free software published under a X licence, and can be copied, modified and redistributed from a <ahref="https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/simoon/temporary-indexing-app"target="blank">git repository</a>.
Temporary Indexing runs on tools such as <ahref="https://flask-wtf.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.x/"target="blank">Flask-WTF</a>, <ahref="https://www.sqlite.org/index.html"target="blank">SQLite</a>, <ahref="https://pdfcpu.io/"target="blank">pdfcpu</a>, <ahref="https://www.reportlab.com/"target="blank">ReportLab</a> and the Python module <ahref="https://pypi.org/project/temp-index/"target="blank">temp-index</a>. It is free software published under the <ahref="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html"target="blank">GNU General Public License v3.0</a>, and can be copied, modified and redistributed from a <ahref="https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/simoon/temporary-indexing-app"target="blank">git repository</a>.
