diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py b/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py
index e2b8582af7..38f61d49ff 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py
@@ -687,6 +687,8 @@ class StoreBase(Plugin):  # {{{
 
 class ViewerPlugin(Plugin):  # {{{
 
+    type = _('Viewer')
+
     '''
     These plugins are used to add functionality to the calibre viewer.
     '''
@@ -744,7 +746,8 @@ class ViewerPlugin(Plugin):  # {{{
 
 class EditBookToolPlugin(Plugin):  # {{{
 
-    minimum_calibre_version = (1, 45, 0)
+    type = _('Edit Book Tool')
+    minimum_calibre_version = (1, 46, 0)
 
 # }}}
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/plugin_updater.py b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/plugin_updater.py
index 37bff80ffb..dc74efe9bb 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/plugin_updater.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/plugin_updater.py
@@ -707,6 +707,8 @@ class PluginUpdaterDialog(SizePersistedDialog):
 
         do_restart = False
         try:
+            from calibre.customize.ui import config
+            installed_plugins = frozenset(config['plugins'])
             try:
                 plugin = add_plugin(zip_path)
             except NameConflict as e:
@@ -715,7 +717,7 @@ class PluginUpdaterDialog(SizePersistedDialog):
             # Check for any toolbars to add to.
             widget = ConfigWidget(self.gui)
             widget.gui = self.gui
-            widget.check_for_add_to_toolbars(plugin)
+            widget.check_for_add_to_toolbars(plugin, previously_installed=plugin.name in installed_plugins)
             self.gui.status_bar.showMessage(_('Plugin installed: %s') % display_plugin.name)
             d = info_dialog(self.gui, _('Success'),
                     _('Plugin <b>{0}</b> successfully installed under <b>'
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/plugins.py b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/plugins.py
index 9329477710..53e29daa00 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/plugins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/plugins.py
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ class ConfigWidget(ConfigWidgetBase, Ui_Form):
                         ' Are you sure you want to proceed?'),
                     show_copy_button=False):
                 return
+            from calibre.customize.ui import config
+            installed_plugins = frozenset(config['plugins'])
             try:
                 plugin = add_plugin(path)
             except NameConflict as e:
@@ -312,7 +314,7 @@ class ConfigWidget(ConfigWidgetBase, Ui_Form):
             self._plugin_model.populate()
             self._plugin_model.reset()
             self.changed_signal.emit()
-            self.check_for_add_to_toolbars(plugin)
+            self.check_for_add_to_toolbars(plugin, previously_installed=plugin.name in installed_plugins)
             info_dialog(self, _('Success'),
                     _('Plugin <b>{0}</b> successfully installed under <b>'
                         ' {1} plugins</b>. You may have to restart calibre '
@@ -399,9 +401,12 @@ class ConfigWidget(ConfigWidgetBase, Ui_Form):
         if 'Store' in self.gui.iactions:
             self.gui.iactions['Store'].load_menu()
 
-    def check_for_add_to_toolbars(self, plugin):
+    def check_for_add_to_toolbars(self, plugin, previously_installed=True):
         from calibre.gui2.preferences.toolbar import ConfigWidget
-        from calibre.customize import InterfaceActionBase
+        from calibre.customize import InterfaceActionBase, EditBookToolPlugin
+
+        if isinstance(plugin, EditBookToolPlugin):
+            return self.check_for_add_to_editor_toolbar(plugin, previously_installed)
 
         if not isinstance(plugin, InterfaceActionBase):
             return
@@ -436,6 +441,10 @@ class ConfigWidget(ConfigWidgetBase, Ui_Form):
                 installed_actions.append(plugin_action.name)
                 gprefs['action-layout-'+key] = tuple(installed_actions)
 
+    def check_for_add_to_editor_toolbar(self, plugin, previously_installed):
+        if not previously_installed:
+            from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.plugin import install_plugin
+            install_plugin(plugin)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     from PyQt4.Qt import QApplication
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/__init__.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/__init__.py
index 069c70cea5..9c59abac68 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/__init__.py
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ d['remove_unused_classes'] = False
 d['global_book_toolbar'] = [
 'new-file', 'open-book',  'save-book', None, 'global-undo', 'global-redo', 'create-checkpoint', None, 'donate', 'user-manual']
 d['global_tools_toolbar'] = ['check-book', 'spell-check-book', 'edit-toc', 'insert-character', 'manage-fonts', 'smarten-punctuation', 'remove-unused-css']
+d['global_plugins_toolbar'] = []
 d['editor_css_toolbar'] = ['pretty-current', 'insert-image']
 d['editor_xml_toolbar'] = ['pretty-current', 'insert-tag']
 d['editor_html_toolbar'] = ['fix-html-current', 'pretty-current', 'insert-image', 'insert-hyperlink', 'insert-tag', 'change-paragraph']
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/plugin.py
index 35a54143d5..95cbf0c328 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/plugin.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/plugin.py
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import,
 __license__ = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2014, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 
+import importlib
+
+from PyQt4.Qt import QToolButton
+
+from calibre import prints
+from calibre.customize.ui import all_edit_book_tool_plugins
+from calibre.gui2.tweak_book import tprefs
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.boss import get_boss
 
 class Tool(object):
@@ -19,6 +26,9 @@ class Tool(object):
     #: If True the user can choose to place this tool in the plugins menu
     allowed_in_menu = True
 
+    #: The popup mode for the menu (if any) of the toolbar button. Possible values are 'delayed', 'instant', 'button'
+    toolbar_button_popup_mode = 'delayed'
+
     @property
     def boss(self):
         ' The :class:`calibre.gui2.tweak_book.boss.Boss` object. Used to control the user interface. '
@@ -29,13 +39,105 @@ class Tool(object):
         ' The main window of the user interface '
         return self.boss.gui
 
+    def register_shortcut(self, qaction, unique_name, default_keys=(), short_text=None, description=None, **extra_data):
+        '''
+        Register a keyboard shortcut that will trigger the specified ``qaction``. This keyboard shortcut
+        will become automatically customizable by the user in the Keyboard section of the editor preferences.
+
+        :param qaction: A QAction object, it will be triggered when the
+            configured key combination is pressed by the user.
+        :param unique_name: A unique name for this shortcut/action. It will be
+            used internally, it must not be shared by any other actions in this
+            plugin.
+        :param default_keys: A list of the default keyboard shortcuts. If not
+            specified no default shortcuts will be set. If the shortcuts specified
+            here conflict with either builtin shortcuts or shortcuts from user
+            configuration/other plugins, they will be ignored. In that case, users
+            will have to configure the shortcuts manually via Preferences. For example:
+            ``default_keys=('Ctrl+J', 'F9')``.
+        :param short_text: An optional short description of this action. If not
+            specified the text from the QAction will be used.
+        :param description: An optional longer description of this action, it
+            will be used in the preferences entry for this shortcut.
+        '''
+        short_text = short_text or unicode(qaction.text()).replace('&&', '\0').replace('&', '').replace('\0', '&')
+        self.gui.keyboard.register_shortcut(
+            self.name + '_' + unique_name, short_text, default_keys=default_keys,
+            description=description or '', group=_('Plugins'))
+
     def create_action(self, for_toolbar=True):
         '''
         Create a QAction that will be added to either the plugins toolbar or
         the plugins menu depending on ``for_toolbar``. For example::
 
-            def create_action(self, for_toolbar):
-                ac = QAction(
+            def create_action(self, for_toolbar=True):
+                ac = QAction(get_icons('myicon.png'), 'Do something')
+                if for_toolbar:
+                    # We want the toolbar button to have a popup menu
+                    menu = QMenu()
+                    ac.setMenu(menu)
+                    menu.addAction('Do something else')
+                    subaction = menu.addAction('And another')
+
+                    # Register a keyboard shortcut for this toolbar action be
+                    # careful to do this for only one of the toolbar action or
+                    # the menu action, not both.
+                    self.register_shortcut(ac, 'some-unique-name', default_keys=('Ctrl+K',))
+                return ac
+
+        .. seealso:: Method :meth:`register_shortcut`.
         '''
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
+def load_plugin_tools(plugin):
+    try:
+        main = importlib.import_module(plugin.__class__.__module__+'.main')
+    except ImportError:
+        import traceback
+        traceback.print_stack()
+    else:
+        for x in vars(main).itervalues():
+            if isinstance(x, type) and x is not Tool and issubclass(x, Tool):
+                yield x()
+
+def plugin_action_sid(plugin, tool, for_toolbar=True):
+    return plugin.name + tool.name + ('toolbar' if for_toolbar else 'menu')
+
+def create_plugin_action(plugin, tool, for_toolbar, actions=None, toolbar_actions=None, plugin_menu_actions=None):
+    try:
+        ac = tool.create_action(for_toolbar=for_toolbar)
+    except Exception:
+        import traceback
+        traceback.print_stack()
+        return
+    sid = plugin_action_sid(plugin, tool, for_toolbar)
+    if actions is not None and sid in actions:
+        prints('The %s tool from the %s plugin has a non unique name, ignoring' % (tool.name, plugin.name))
+    else:
+        if actions is not None:
+            actions[sid] = ac
+        ac.sid = sid
+        if for_toolbar:
+            if toolbar_actions is not None:
+                toolbar_actions[sid] = ac
+            ac.popup_mode = {'instant':QToolButton.InstantPopup, 'button':QToolButton.MenuButtonPopup}.get(
+                tool.toolbar_button_popup_mode, QToolButton.DelayedPopup)
+        else:
+            if plugin_menu_actions is not None:
+                plugin_menu_actions.append(ac)
+    return ac
+
+def create_plugin_actions(actions, toolbar_actions, plugin_menu_actions):
+    for plugin in all_edit_book_tool_plugins():
+        for tool in load_plugin_tools(plugin):
+            if tool.allowed_in_toolbar:
+                create_plugin_action(plugin, tool, True, actions, toolbar_actions, plugin_menu_actions)
+            if tool.allowed_in_menu:
+                create_plugin_action(plugin, tool, False, actions, toolbar_actions, plugin_menu_actions)
+
+def install_plugin(plugin):
+    for tool in load_plugin_tools(plugin):
+        if tool.allowed_in_toolbar:
+            sid = plugin_action_sid(plugin, tool, True)
+            if sid not in tprefs['global_plugins_toolbar']:
+                tprefs['global_plugins_toolbar'] = tprefs['global_plugins_toolbar'] + [sid]
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/preferences.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/preferences.py
index e043fc989d..bd16429a0f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/preferences.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/preferences.py
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ class ToolbarSettings(QWidget):
         for name, text in (
                 ('global_book_toolbar', _('Book wide actions'),),
                 ('global_tools_toolbar', _('Book wide tools'),),
+                ('global_plugins_toolbar', _('Book wide tools from third party plugins'),),
                 ('editor_html_toolbar', ft % 'HTML',),
                 ('editor_css_toolbar', ft % 'CSS',),
                 ('editor_xml_toolbar', ft % 'XML',),
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/ui.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/ui.py
index 232d28f99c..831ec5a845 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/ui.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/ui.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.job import BlockingJob
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.boss import Boss
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.undo import CheckpointView
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.preview import Preview
+from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.plugin import create_plugin_actions
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.search import SearchPanel
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.check import Check
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.spell import SpellCheck
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.live_css import LiveCSS
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.manage_fonts import ManageFonts
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.editor.widget import register_text_editor_actions
 from calibre.gui2.tweak_book.editor.insert_resource import InsertImage
-from calibre.utils.icu import character_name
+from calibre.utils.icu import character_name, sort_key
 
 def open_donate():
     open_url(QUrl('http://calibre-ebook.com/donate'))
@@ -447,6 +448,10 @@ class Main(MainWindow):
         self.action_compare_book = treg('diff.png', _('&Compare to another book'), self.boss.compare_book, 'compare-book', (), _(
             'Compare to another book'))
 
+        self.plugin_menu_actions = []
+
+        create_plugin_actions(actions, toolbar_actions, self.plugin_menu_actions)
+
     def create_menubar(self):
         p, q = self.create_application_menubar()
         q.triggered.connect(self.action_quit.trigger)
@@ -536,6 +541,11 @@ class Main(MainWindow):
         e.addSeparator()
         a(self.action_saved_searches)
 
+        if self.plugin_menu_actions:
+            e = b.addMenu(_('&Plugins'))
+            for ac in sorted(self.plugin_menu_actions, key=lambda x:sort_key(unicode(x.text()))):
+                e.addAction(ac)
+
         e = b.addMenu(_('&Help'))
         a = e.addAction
         a(self.action_help)
@@ -558,10 +568,11 @@ class Main(MainWindow):
             return b
         self.global_bar = create(_('Book tool bar'), 'global')
         self.tools_bar = create(_('Tools tool bar'), 'tools')
+        self.plugins_bar = create(_('Plugins tool bar'), 'plugins')
         self.populate_toolbars(animate=True)
 
     def populate_toolbars(self, animate=False):
-        self.global_bar.clear(), self.tools_bar.clear()
+        self.global_bar.clear(), self.tools_bar.clear(), self.plugins_bar.clear()
         def add(bar, ac):
             if ac is None:
                 bar.addSeparator()
@@ -591,6 +602,10 @@ class Main(MainWindow):
         for x in tprefs['global_tools_toolbar']:
             add(self.tools_bar, x)
 
+        for x in tprefs['global_plugins_toolbar']:
+            add(self.plugins_bar, x)
+        self.plugins_bar.setVisible(bool(tprefs['global_plugins_toolbar']))
+
     def create_docks(self):
 
         def create(name, oname):