The new Word Doc conversion really is wonderful most of the formatting works beautifully, and what doesn't is pretty easily fixed.
There's one thing that doesn't work *none of the internal links were transferred over. They're still formatted as links but there's no address connected to them.
Not a big deal but I've got a book with over three hundred endnotes, and I really don't want to have to hand-connect them if I don't have to.
Am I missing something in the conversion dialogues?
I have been postponing posting this anywhere for a while because I can't find the right keywords to research this issue in the first place. My OS is Arch Linux, I have fully re-installed Calibre several times already and I have no plugin installed for Calibre. The issue is that Calibre will open, I can use it but I can't access the menu because it is outside of the screen. Is there any known issue that could explain this behaviour?
I wish Calibre could some how download my entire Kindle library from amazon.
I know it can't do it already. I just oh so wish it could because the alternative is to manually download 17,000 ebooks.
It'd have to use some sort of screen script for Kindle for PC or the device ID code for a kindle reader, and the books would be locked to that device, but that would be fine with me.
Or maybe a screen script for the 'Manage my Kindle' amazon page?
If not Calibre add-on, does anybody have any ideas?
When I start Calibre for the first time after booting my PC in the morning, my entire PC completely "locks" for 1-2 minutes. When I say "locks" I mean that the entire Windows desktop becomes completely unresponsive, with no response to mouse clicks. Sometimes even the mouse stops moving. After 1-2 mins, everything springs back into life, and then about 20s later, the Calibre splashscreen and window appears.
After starting Calibre once, I can exit it, and subsequently restart it instantly. The issue is only occurring on the initial startup.
I guess this is due to the startup of the Qt framework that Calibre uses. I've added "calibre.exe" to the list of exclusions in my virus scanner, but that's made no difference whatsoever.
Can anything be done about this? It's certainly not a show-stopper, but it is mildly annoying. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
I have just installed Calibre 2.30 on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I think something has changed in the functionality of Calibre in selecting books with SHIFT and the Home/End keys. I'm fairly positive that it used to be possible to select multiple books by holding the SHIFT key and pressing Home or End. Now all it does is going to the left or right horizontal end of the line, it does not move and select books up to the top or the end of the list. Ctrl, SHIFT + Home doesn't do it either, just the top line becomes selected, like when you just press Ctrl.
As I see it now, there is no way to select all the books from a certain line to the top or the end with just one keystroke combination. Is there a way to get the old keyboard shortcuts back? This functionality was extremely useful and I need it very often.
One of my laptop stolen last week so i am starting to back up everyhing :)
Looks like calibre back up everything excellent.
My question is can we see our ebook info (tags, rating) without books?
in detail lets say...
1. my every comp. , external hds stolen.
2. there is a problem with Dropbox or other cloud
3. i only have a back of metadata.db in my email
To me hours i will spend to make the library (comments, tag, rating) is more important to me. So can we see /edit that list without the books? Virtual lib. without books.
I want to convert a kindle book that I bought to pdf so that I can use another app to handwrite notes on it.
I used the DeDRM plugin and I was able to convert it up to 67% where it stops. I was converting it overnight and woke up with it saying error with a runtime of 440+ min.
Is there any way to fix this?
I love calibre. I have been using it for years. i edit the metadata to change the titles to add the number for place it falls in the series. it use to transfer books to my kindle and it would show the edited title so i could keep them in order. But since i got windows 8 and reloaded everything it no longer does that. What am i missing? I am not savy with this stuff so please spoon feed me.. i appreciate any and all assistance.
I've been using Calibre for a while now to manage ebooks with my old Kindle Keyboard. Today I was trying to convert and transfer an epub to my Kindle, and it kept showing the status: Waiting, progress Unavailable, nothing would happen even after quite a while.
I tried closing and restarting Calibre, rebooting the computer, and even deleted and reinstalled the latest version of Calibre, nothing worked. Now, however, when I try to open an ebook from my library or my device in the Calibre reader, I get an error message as follows and it won't open at all:
calibre, version 2.30.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>CriticalError</b>:Failed to launch worker process:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\server.py", line 197, in do_launch
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\__init__.py", line 19, in eintr_retry_call
File "multiprocessing\connection.py", line 147, in accept
File "multiprocessing\connection.py", line 416, in deliver_challenge
IOError: [Errno 232] The pipe is being closed
calibre 2.30 Portable isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 409, in dispatch
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\view.py", line 110, in book_downloaded_for_viewing
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\view.py", line 152, in _view_file
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\view.py", line 122, in _launch_viewer
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\jobs.py", line 260, in launch_gui_app
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\server.py", line 214, in run_job
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\server.py", line 187, in launch_worker
CriticalError: Failed to launch worker process:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\server.py", line 197, in do_launch
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\__init__.py", line 19, in eintr_retry_call
File "multiprocessing\connection.py", line 147, in accept
File "multiprocessing\connection.py", line 416, in deliver_challenge
IOError: [Errno 232] The pipe is being closed
This happens with any book I try to open, regardless of where I got it. The books still all open and run properly in the Kindle itself. I am running Windows 7.
Hi, I have recently started using calibre for my ebooks and manga. I am trying to convert my manga (.cbc format) to an ebook format (either .mobi or .epub).
I have done the following: 1. Convert my manga chapters to cbz. 2. Compress chapters into a Volume (number).cbc. 3. Add a comics.txt to the Volume (number).cbc. 4. Import Volume (number).cbc into Calibre. 5. Convert Volume (number) into either .epub or .mobi.
Spoiler:
I am now receiving an error message:
calibre, version 2.30.0 (win32, isfrozen: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (Btooom! - Vol. 1)
Convert book 1 of 1 (Btooom! - Vol. 1)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.30.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'left',
'chapter': None,
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'colors': 256,
'comic_image_size': None,
'comments': None,
'cover': u'C:\\Users\\DARIEN~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calib re_ayegh5\\1hw9mh.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'despeckle': False,
'disable_font_rescaling': True,
'disable_trim': False,
'dont_add_comic_pages_to_toc': False,
'dont_grayscale': True,
'dont_normalize': False,
'dont_sharpen': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'epub_flatten': False,
'epub_inline_toc': False,
'epub_toc_at_end': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u'',
'fix_indents': True,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x038E0410>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_aspect_ratio': False,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'landscape': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 0,
'margin_left': 0,
'margin_right': 0,
'margin_top': 0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_process': False,
'no_sort': False,
'no_svg_cover': False,
'output_format': u'png',
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.iPadOutput object at 0x038E06B0>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\DARIEN~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calib re_ayegh5\\kexdht.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'right2left': False,
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2,
'wide': False}
InputFormatPlugin: Comic Input running
on C:\Users\DARIEN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_ayegh 5\hukonb.cbc
Python function terminated unexpectedly
File is not a zip file (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 193, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1042, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\comic_i nput.py", line 169, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\comic_i nput.py", line 94, in get_comics_from_collection
File "site-packages\calibre\libunzip.py", line 44, in extract
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 751, in __init__
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 786, in _GetContents
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 801, in _RealGetContents
calibre.utils.zipfile.BadZipfile: File is not a zip file
All,
It occurs to me that this ought to be possible, I just don't see how.
I have a moderate sized calibre library with a number of authors in it. When I read a book I have a column called read that I mark as "read" or "unread". If I really don't like the book or the authors style I mark it as "rubbish"
It occurs to me that having a virtual library that contains all books by authors that I have read at least one book from would be a wonderful idea - but I just don't see how...
I use the Mac OS version of Calibre. I currently have version 2.23 installed and I just downloaded version 2.30. Here is the question: On the download page http://calibre-ebook.com/download_osx it says at the top: "calibre works on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and higher." however, midway down it also says: If you are using OS X older than 10.8 (Mountain Lion), the last version of calibre that will work on your machine is 1.48,..."
Now version 2.23 worked fine on my iMac running Mac OS 10.7.5 (Lion) and I just launched version 2.30 without problems. So shouldn't the second quote above say "If you are using OS X older than 10.7 (Lion)..." ?
I would like to keep my main library on a removable disk, and a local library on internal disk. When adding some books, I just add them into the local library. I know how to do these as I can simply switch libraries in Calibre. But I would like to merge (move) the books from the local library into the main library once in a while. How can I do this?
I don't know if this has already been answered (I haven't found any example or related thread). Is there any way to search the records where two field fulfill a condition: #les > #nes, for example.