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Summary

Addresses #36 and partially addresses #37 (by making it possible to simply move manually converted/optimized files to arbitrary storage devices including SD cards)

Problem. I would like to be able to save the optimized files produced via the optimizer so that I can reuse the files later (and specifically host an OPDS catalog of optimized books/put them on multiple devices). I admit that this is probably not a common use case, but broadly it seems like it makes sense to me to not require entangling file optimization and transfer to device.

Solution. I added 2 new OutputFilePlugins which let you in the file conversion tool convert directly to an '.X3.EPUB' or an '.X4.EPUB' file. These files are still just regular epubs, but run with the optimizer for those specific devices. I am not incredibly tied to those names, so if there are alternative suggestions for how we could denote files as appropriately optimized epubs, I'd be interested. One idea that I didn't end up going with was just a .crosspoint.epub format that tried to be optimized for both at the same time, rather than being so device specific.

The above implementation was relatively straightforward. The two less intuitive parts of this solution are:

  • Calibre seems to have a bit of a weird process for when a single plugin wants to occupy multiple different core functionalities/plugin base classes (as documented here: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/plugins.html). The way around that that I found was to treat the CrossPointDevice as the "primary" plugin, initialized via CrossPointReaderDevice, and then separately manually initialize the other plugin objects
  • Just defining the 2 new OutputFilePlugins let me select x3.epub or x4.epub from the file conversion output dropdown, but when I actually tried to convert it, it would go through the regular convert-to-epub process.
    • Copilot/GPT-5.6's explanation here, which to be honest sounds like a bug in Calibre itself: "Calibre derives the converter key with os.path.splitext(output)[1], so /tmp/book.x4.epub becomes epub; the dropdown displays the compound format, but the built-in EPUB plugin is selected. I’m fixing this with a single EPUB dispatcher registered ahead of Calibre’s built-in EPUB plugin: it detects .x3.epub or .x4.epub from the actual output path, optimizes those, and leaves ordinary .epub conversions unchanged."
    • And so it made the 3rd OutputFilePlugin, which dispatches conversions of type .epub

Testing

After installing the plugin, I ran a few conversions, both from epub->x4.epub, epub->x5.epub, and mobi->epub, and all worked exactly as expected
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Did you use AI tools to help write this code? YES (most of the code was produced by Copilot/GPT-5.6, I reviewed it all and am proficient in python but am not proficient in the Calibre ecosystem in particular)

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The change adds x3.epub and x4.epub Calibre output formats. It optimizes generated EPUB files with CrossPoint settings, registers the plugins for enabled devices, and documents both formats.

CrossPoint EPUB output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Optimized EPUB conversion
crosspoint_reader/output.py, README.md, crosspoint_reader/README.md
The plugins generate a standard EPUB, apply device-specific optimization settings, write the optimized output, and document the X3 and X4 formats.
Calibre plugin registration
crosspoint_reader/__init__.py
CrossPointReaderDevice.initialize() loads, initializes, and registers the three output plugins when Calibre reports the device as enabled.

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  participant Calibre
  participant CrossPointReaderDevice
  participant CrossPointEpubDispatcher
  participant optimize_epub
  participant OutputFile
  Calibre->>CrossPointReaderDevice: initialize enabled device
  CrossPointReaderDevice->>Calibre: register output plugins
  Calibre->>CrossPointEpubDispatcher: request EPUB conversion
  CrossPointEpubDispatcher->>CrossPointEpubDispatcher: select X3 or X4 by suffix
  CrossPointEpubDispatcher->>optimize_epub: optimize temporary EPUB
  optimize_epub->>OutputFile: write optimized EPUB
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In `@crosspoint_reader/__init__.py`:
- Line 32: Update the plugin registration around ui._initialized_plugins and
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