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The format independent code is all in ebooks.oeb and the format dependent code is in ebooks.format_name.
* Metadata reading, writing, and downloading is all in ebooks.metadata
* Conversion happens in a pipeline, for the structure of the pipeline,
see :ref:`conversion-introduction`. The pipeline consists of an input
plugin, various transforms and an output plugin. The code constructs
and drives the pipeline is in plumber.py. The pipeline works on a
representation of an ebook that is like an unzipped epub, with
manifest, spine, toc, guide, html content, etc. The
class that manages this representation is OEBBook in oeb/base.py. The
various transformations that are applied to the book during
conversions live in `oeb/transforms/*.py`. And the input and output
plugins live in `conversion/plugins/*.py`.
* library - The database back-end and the content server. See library.database2 for the interface to the |app| library. library.server is the |app| Content Server.
* gui2 - The Graphical User Interface. GUI initialization happens in gui2.main and gui2.ui. The ebook-viewer is in gui2.viewer.