Adding Book Descriptions, Missing Covers
Hi - I'm pretty new to Calibre. I noticed that some of my books from Amazon are missing the photos of the covers and only a small number of books include descriptions. Is there and easier way to get...
View ArticleIf this then that style tagging?
Hi, I'm curious if any Calibre power-users here can advise me. I use Calibre to manage to non-Amazon ebooks, nothing fancy, just so I can sort them by various methods (author, title, series, tag, etc)...
View ArticleConversion from ePub to mobi crashes Calibre
I'm using Calibre 0.9.19 to convert from ePub to mobi format, but Calibre crashes without producing an error file. This problem is repeatable, even when I select the default settings. Sigil reports...
View ArticleAssociating Files
Using Calibre Portable on Win XP Trying to associate epub, mobi etc files with the viewer but all that happens is the viewer opens bit gives the message "input file must have an extension". But the...
View ArticleWhich Format for books
newbie question - I've seen books in epub and mobi format. Does it make any difference as to which I add to my Calibre library? For readers we have an iPad2, iPad mini and Kindle.
View ArticleProblems viewing in Calibre
I haven't used Calibre in a while and this morning I updated to 9.19 - I'm not sure from which version, but I think it was 9+, I'm on a Mac, OS 10.8.2. When I try to view a book in epub format instead...
View ArticleGalaxy S3 not recognized
The Galaxy S3 used to work with the MTP plugin, but now has stopped being recognized by calibre. calibre 0.9.19 isfrozen: True is64bit: False Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')...
View ArticleAWZ3 conversion margins
I was wondering if it is possible to make smaller margins when converting to azw3 for displaying on the kindle paperwhite. I already have the smallest margins chosen on the device itself, but was...
View ArticleHow to convert a webpage (html) to an ebook ?
Hello, I've read over all available materials and am stumped on the process. I have the webpage in it's entirely on my localhost and it's ready to go. Goal: Convert a webpage into an ebook with a...
View ArticleNew 'Get books' dialog
I found there are 2 new fields in 'Get books' dialog. In src/calibre/gui2/store/search/search.py, do_search() will join these fields to generate query string. And then use...
View ArticleCover Align Top
How to get the cover image to align to the top after converting with calibre and then adding semantics in sigil. My other images within the book are no problem but calibre seems to be making the image...
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Request for device setup Odyssey HD Frontligt
Hi, there is a Odyssey configuration already, but I do not know if it is optimal for the Bookeen Cybook Odyssey HD Frontlight, so I have attached needed information. When you (wifi) download from the...
View ArticleChanging sort order and title
OK I'm going against the flow but I liked to have the title and author sort order the same as the book title and author, exampleTitle "A Week at the Airport", I do not want it sorted "Week at the...
View ArticleHow does Calibre determine when a library book is on a device?
and how does it determine whether a device book is in a library? I have a book I was trying to do some cleanup on to get rid of random line/paragraph breaks. I converted the book from MOBI (that showed...
View Articlepylib.zip and zipfile.py
I am digging a bit into an issue I am having with a script that works fine when I run it under cygwin and python 2.7.3 but fails with a BadZipFile error when used as a plugin in calibre. The zip file...
View ArticleOn Device: Main (6 books)
Not sure if this problem has been posted before...I've read similar threads on this and tried to find a solution in those threads but I couldn't. I'm having an issue where Calibre is showing multiple...
View ArticleSeries order - how to display on reader
OK I've been working on my library and have made a lot of progress thanks to the help of this forum but I've run into a bump with displaying the series on my iPad/Kindle. In Calibre I can use the...
View ArticleIncomplete TOC Problem
Newbie here and to the Calibre program. I added an epub created out of TreeDB Notes with over 17 thousand recipes under 51 main folders and numerous sub folders. Problem: it only shows 7 main folders....
View ArticleRemoving periods from author names
I've gone through all the posts I could find about it here, but I'm not having any luck doing this. When adding a book to Calibre, I'd like Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling for instance to be shown as:...
View ArticleCopying Ebooks to Multiple Computers
iS IT POSSIBLE TO LOAD THE CALIBRE PROGRAM AND ITS LIBRARY ON AN External HD and be able to use that calibre on multiple computers????????
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