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button link problem when converting to mobi

June 7, 2015, 4:07 am
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Hi Everyone.

I used the following code to add a link to a book page.

I added the page and the css page to to the epub file in calibre and it works fine. But when I use calibre to convert ebup file to mobi, the button and other design elements to not render. I am using calbre to view the books in each case. See attachments.

Can anyone help me with this?

<body class="calibre2">
<div class="box">
<p class="calibre3">Thank You for Downloading this Gefen Publishing House Ebook.</p>
<p class="calibre3">Sign up for our free weekly newsletter and get special offers on exciting new titles about Israel, Judaism and the Jewish People.</p>
<p class="button"><a class="a" href="">To sign up click here!</a>
</p>
</div>

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Save a specific book to disk and then it can't be opened

June 7, 2015, 7:32 am
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Drag and drop Time 2015.04.06.pdf to the calibre. Saving it to disk via Save to disk in a single directory and then choose whatever a folder to save it. Go to the folder and double click to open it, "There was a problem reading this document(109)" shows up, the book can't be opened.

Here is the link of the pdf book: Time 2015.04.06.pdf
And the dialog box screenshot: unreadable.jpg

The book is shared to me by a friend of mine.
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Book keeps reappearing

June 7, 2015, 9:39 am
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I use calibre all the time. I had a book I downloaded through Digital Editions, but never used Calibre with. Have since removed the book from DE. Now everytime I add a book to Calibre, I get that one book over and over again.

Steps so far
Update to the latest version Calibre
Uninstalled and reinstalled Calibre
Uninstalled, used Regedit to remove all occurrence of Calibre. Rebooted and reinstalled
Uninstalled and reinstalled DE

Nothing has fixed it. Any suggestions are welcome
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Why can't Calibre merge duplicates on import?

June 7, 2015, 10:50 am
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I'm in the process of adding the various titles from the Hugo voter packet to my Calibre now, and I find that when I add in all the formats, Calibre complains that the titles already exist in my library. I tell it to add them anyway, then I have to go into the context menu, edit metadata, and merge the entries.

If it's smart enough to notice they've got the same title and author, why on earth can't it offer to merge the duplicates together when I import them and save me a step?
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Calibre/Kobo Aura/iPad Best Practices

June 7, 2015, 11:45 am
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My set-up as it stands now:

Calibre 2.22
OS X 10.8.5
iTunes 12.1
Original iPad
iPhone 5
Sony PRS-T2
Kobo Aura

Currently I:

Load all new ebooks (400+ and counting and all bought-and-paid-for he declares proudly) into Calibre and convert them if necessary to drm-free epubs, tag them and add covers if necessary.

Then I Connect to iTunes and add the books; they are then sync'd automatically to iPad and iPhone on next recharge.

The Sony and Kobo are updated either via direct connection (if recharge is needed) or through wireless web access to Content Server.

Everything works, all the libraries match and I am a happy camper.

The catch is eventually I am going to have to update my Mac and my understanding is Connect to iTunes no longer works even if I avoid the whole iBooks debacle. The other option I have seen is to avoid iTunes all together and use something like Marvin. But Marvin won't run on my original iPad (which is almost solely used as an ereader these days).

I love using Calibre as my central depository for ebooks and my current system works exactly how I think things should. But what are the rest of you who have multiple devices doing?
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Calibre Questions

June 7, 2015, 12:21 pm
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Hello,

I am sure that these questions have been asked and answered and although I have done some searching, I am unable to find the information I am looking for.

I would like to be able to sort the books into a folder labeled with the authors name. If the book is in a series I want to be able to save it in a folder labeled with the series name inside of the authors folder.

My second issue is that when I save these books to disk, the series order isn't used to sort the books in my kindle (once I send them there via email). I read about using a plugboard and seen examples of it, but I want the series name and number to be first....so it would be Series Name 01.0 - Book Title - Author.

I have tried reading and understanding how to formulate this on my own but honestly even though I am good with computers, this syntax confuses me.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Lena
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Dear Kovid

June 7, 2015, 3:29 pm
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Please respond to the email I sent you.

Sincerely,

Bryan B.

Edit: I have tried to PM you but the request has been pending for over a week.
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Custom Metadata in Catalog

June 7, 2015, 11:40 pm
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Would it be very hard to program including Custom Metadata in a Catalog? Could anyone do it?
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Can I choose between different default cover designs?

June 8, 2015, 1:56 am
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When I convert files (e.g. from HTML to EPUB), I gladly accept Calibre's offer to generate default covers. Calibre seems to choose randomly from a set of different cover designs (some of which I like better than others) -- is there any way I can choose one of them, and stay with it for all my EPUBs?
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Open files from within

June 8, 2015, 9:14 am
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I don't know too much of epub's code but i want to know if there's some way to open a file from an epub. Something like open a jpg, or a pdf, etc, when you make reference to something in the text. Of course i say an external file, not embebed.
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Kindle Fire HD: Never pops up in Calibre

June 8, 2015, 10:22 am
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Hi all

I need help :help:

Can any kind soul tell me that when;

1-My Kindle is connected with the cable to the USB Port
2- My Calibre software is installed and
3- I just installed the latest version of CALIBRE last night
4- I start and close, and start and close and it does not appear either

I originally installed it with the device chosen as Amazon Kindle, both paperwhite & Fire. I have both, and both do not appear anymore..

HELP !? :help:

thank you kindly
Jean
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Possible to change the "Newest" behavior in the web interface menu ?

June 8, 2015, 12:33 pm
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Hi!

Even if I was lucky enough to get an answer from Kivid Goyal, I think I was not on the right forum. Therefore here was the thread:
OP:
I started fetching "news" in my Calibre Library.
When using the web interface menu, I would like the "Newest" button to display just the Books, or said in other words, display all except the "News".
If I want the "News", I will click the "News" button.
Is it possible ?
Thanks,
Gaston

Answer from Mr Goyal
Just create a saved search, for not tags:=News then it will be available under "Searches" in the web interface. IIRC it will by default be sorted by date so it should be exactly what you want.

My answer to Mr Goyal:
Thank you for this helpful answer. Yes, it could do the job, but would it be possible for me to set a menu button with this very specific filter (in fact it is what I was trying to do by asking if it was possible to change the filter associated with the "Newest" menu button) ?
Thanks
Gaston
ps: by the way, when working in French, Calibre add the tag "Actualités" for "news", and I think that the Web interface add the menu button "Actualités" when detecting the tag "Actualités" for an item stored in the library. When working in English, Calibre add the tag "News" in the same condition, and I think that the Web interface add the menu button "News" when detecting the tag "News" for an item. Now, let's say that I switch Calibre from french to English, my items with the "Actualités" tag won't trigger the web interface and I won't have the "News" menu button. Would it be better to always use the "News" tag in all languages?

The question:
Is there a known technical trick to assign a specific search with a specific sort (by date in my case) to a menu button on the web interface ?

Thanks
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Imported AZW3 file has wrong page width ?

June 9, 2015, 7:12 am
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I have imported an azw3 file and in the calibre ebook viewer (and when exported to epub) it's showing incorrect page formatting.

EG Page 1 is ok, page 2 is spread over 3 page clicks etc.

I've tried basic css editing but cannot find out how to get this formatted correctly.

Any advice appreciated.

Si
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Not loading kepubs to Glo HD

June 9, 2015, 10:45 am
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I think I am doing this right.

1. Right click and use convert books to kepub, and the job thingy bottom right ticks over.

2. Right click and use send to device, send specific format, main memory, and kepub is not in the list.


It shows under format in the right panel AZW3, EPUB, KEPUB
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Starting Calibre with the last genre- hierarchy

June 9, 2015, 11:52 am
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Hello,

Every time I start Calibre I must go through the Genre tree ( computers.software.mathematics.something ) and open the book I like to read.

Is there a way to save the last configuration of this hierarchy?

Thank you.
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Removing directories on device (Jetbook Mini)

June 9, 2015, 12:00 pm
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Love using calibre with my Jetbook Mini. Conversions are decent out-of-the-box. (I haven't taken time to try to tweak ePub-to-FB2 formatting, if that's even possible.)

However, when I remove books from the Mini, the author directories are left behind. This results in having a folder for every author that I have ever sent to the reader, and it clutters the interface when I'm looking for something to read.

Is there a way to tell calibre to remove the author directories when all books have been removed that are by that author? I know that the index files are necessary, and that removing them requires the Mini to regenerate them if the book is restored to it, but that is utterly acceptable to me.

I will open a bug-report if necessary, but perhaps someone here knows if this is possible to implement currently.

Much aloha.
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Why high CPU for the "PC Magazine" recipe?

June 10, 2015, 12:50 am
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I thought the "PC Magazine" recipe was hanging, so I killed it, but the same thing happened later, so I added -v -v -v to try to capture the problem. I let it run all night, and it completed, but with astounding CPU usage.

Environment: 4c i7, 8GB RAM, ubuntu 14.04.1, ebook-convert (calibre 1.25.0)

time ebook-convert "PC Magazine.recipe" "PC Magazine.epub" --pretty-print --enable-heuristics --no-default-epub-cover --duplicate-links-in-toc --max-toc-links 998 --toc-threshold 999 -v -v -v 2>&1 |tee -a PCMebook-convert.log &

real 312m26.807s
user 282m31.243s
sys 0m2.230s

The log file is attached as PCMebook-convert.log.txt

Any suggestions? parameters to change?

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File Type: txt PCMebook-convert.log.txt (651.8 KB)
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Is possible nested sublist?

June 10, 2015, 2:51 am
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Good Morning.

When I send to disk (or device), I need to change the name:
- If contains many authors, only select first:
> authors:sublist(0,1,&)
- Select the surname of author (last word):
> authors:sublist(-1,0, )

Both sentences works fine, but I dont know how to combine them.

My Save Template is:
{authors:sublist(0,1,&)} - {series:|| }{series_index:0>2s|[|] - }{title} ({pubdate:sublist(-1,0,\,)})

AUTOR (only first) - SERIE [n] (if exists) - TITLE (YEAR)

:help:
Thanks!!
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Regarding the conversion in debug mode of calibre user manual

June 10, 2015, 3:51 am
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I wanna see the debug output of my conversion and I have read this:

Paragraph 7.7 (134.0 / 1356) of the calibre user manual: "You can see this process in action by using the debug option . Just specify the path to a directory for the debug output."

As far as I know, I set the calibre to debug mode by right clicking the Preference button and selecting Restart in debug mode. Then calibre restarts, however, at this moment, how to "specify the path to a directory for the debug output"?

I do know how to do it in command line interface of calibre: ebook-convert input_file output_file -d -vv, now I wanna know how to in GUI.
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Using Polish remove_unused_css method

June 10, 2015, 4:37 am
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I'm interested in automatically running the remove_unused_css method from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.css as part of one of my personal plugins which is a gui CSS tweaker.

The input parameters are (container, report=None, remove_unused_classes=False).
I'm OK with 1 and 3 but I'm not sure how to use report.

As far as I can tell, the method just returns True/False depending on whether any css rules or html classes were removed. I'd like to be able to access some detail of what changed, which I can see is being 'reported'.

I'm afraid the documented help param report: An optional callable that takes a single argument. It is called with information about the operations being performed. doesn't enlighten me.

The fact that I don't really understand calibre's logging system may be at the heart of my problems so if there's a 'Start-here-and-all-will-be-revealed' feel free to point me at it. Understanding the logging system is probably long overdue on my part.

Thanks in advance for any helpful info :)
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