.chm to .mobi or .pdf conversion results are not good. help please!
Ok. So I've got this new Kindle eReader and I've installed Calibre for some book conversions. There are 2 books: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition and Harrison's Principles of...
View ArticleQuestion: DRM Removal
Hardcopy of textbook $63.70 used $84.95 new $42.50 new rental $36.15 used rental eBook $60.00 new (of course), can only use it with proprietary software that does not work with what I want. I can only...
View ArticleQuestion to developers.
Hey all! I want to thank you, first, for making such a wonderful application! It has been a lifesaver, time saver, and over all great application! I have a question for the developers out there: I have...
View Articlerecipe wanted: update ebook if changed
There's an ebook being written, and the author kindly posts a revised PDF of it every few days. I've created an ebook in Calibre. Now I want to set up a recipe to re-download the PDF and update the...
View ArticleEasy Conversion: Doc to Epub / Mobi
Over at http://pdxnat.wordpress.com/2011/10/...pub-mobi-file/ I wrote up a simple tutorial for converting a "word" doc to epub / mobi using Calibre. It's based on setting the document title &...
View ArticleCalibre competitors?
So my team leader wants me to do some research, to find out whether there's anything out there that can do even remotely the same thing that Calibre does by way of ebook library management, so I can...
View ArticleCalibre covers
Is there any way I can opt NOT to have a cover? I somehow managed to figure out how to get the generic default cover not to display, but I get an empty page. How can I get my converted book to start...
View ArticleCalibre 0.8.36 - Linux Compile Error - No module named dateutil.parser
Hello, I'm running Calibre on my Gentoo X86_64 laptop, (kernel 3.2.1, python 2.7 and 3.2, gcc 4.6.2, gnome 3.2.1), and it's been compiling, installing, and running fine until version 0.8.36. The entire...
View ArticleAuthor/Title order in mobi output file
I can't find anywhere to set the output filename order to Auther - Title, or is Title - Author a mobi spec?
View ArticleCrash on startup
I am finding Calibre consistently crashes on startup. OS = Win XP SP3 I have tried this on three other XP PCs and the same happens. MS Error dialog text "The main Calibre program has encountered a...
View ArticleAdding books Error
When I try to move a book into calibre I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\add.py", line 127, in start File...
View ArticleIrregular Word Spacing In Mobi
Hi I've been dropping in and out the forums for about a year now, good stuff, lots of answers. Anyhoo, I now have a question I can't seem to find the answer too so I thought I'd ask. The short version....
View Articleloss if italics and smallcaps when converting epub to mobi
When I convert epubs to mobi, I notice italics are sometimes systematically lost. And also smallcaps (but I doubt mobi is capable of rendering smallcaps at all -- anyway I've never seen smallcaps on my...
View ArticleRemoving "orphan" paragraphs and other stuff
Hello all, I had tried before finding some answers on the Sigil section and most of the guys recommend to look here in here for some answers. So, let me point them: 1. Why the tables don't stay...
View ArticleWhy scanning a folder device in my intranet
Hello everybody, my calibre installation always scans the library which is located on a network drive as a folder device, takes normaly time by one hour. The library was created and managed by calibre....
View ArticleSeeing Duplicate Folders for the Same Author
Upon accidentaly moving my Calibre library to Dropbox instead of just copying it, I've noticed that i now have duplicate folders for some of the authors, all with the same change: "Arenson, Daniel" vs...
View Articlecolumn colors based on what reading list a book is on?
i have two reading lists: TBR and TBR2. I only have one special column, labeled TBR: the reading lists are to decide what to read first, and what to read next. Is it possible (I don't think it is) for...
View ArticleOops - help needed, copying books back
Ok, I made a little mistake, and before I mess up compleatly was wondering if you could help me get back my library. I was just making another copy of my library in windows, so had a new folder open...
View ArticleTroubleshooting slow user recipes
I have a few user recipes that have 5-15 RSS feeds in them, and they simply take too long to fetch (some up to an hour). I would presume that one or two feeds are slow to fetch because of the nature of...
View ArticleWhat I'd like to see
Hey guys, been using Calibre for like 8 months, just found this forum and have had some desires for Calibre burning in the back of my mind for a long time. Kovid, your tool is great and it's obvious...
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