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Opening a new window in calibre, and closing another window

Can I close the current window on calibre (with x number of titles) and open a new window without any books, in order to start fresh? (Think of a word processor: One closes the window for the current...

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PDB to PDF problem with margins

I've run into a problem with the "margins" option in Caliber. I'm converting some PDB files to PDF. Everything works fine with the exception of the "margins" option. Left and right margins work as...

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LibreOffice 3.5 odt to mobi problem?

I've recently upgraded to LibreOffice 3.5. Since upgrading, when I attempt to convert a document in odt format into mobi for my Kindle, there are large margins around the headers (e.g. Heading 2), when...

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Calibre Conversion Error

In attempting conversions, the job does not compete successfully and I am getting the following error below. Can someone help me decipher the problem? Jim Hanlon calibre, version 0.8.41 ERROR:...

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Calibre 0.7.28 incompatible Kobo touch??

:angry: I can't seem to get Calibre 0.7.28 to recognise my new Kobo touch on my Mac running Mac OS 10.4.11 The device shows in the Finder of my Mac but does not show in Calibre. The Kobo plug-in is...

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Tag many books at once?

Still new, but trying to learn and understand Calibre. I have imported a VERY LARGE library of ebooks, but the metadata was not well organized, so I'm manually updating the metadata. I am trying to do...

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Book Files

Could anyone tell me what these entries are that appear when editing collections on my kindle? Book with no file - *40ead05290c0a0eb45c09ebce93eaf8464713cea cheers

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Calibre crashes when it finds Cybook Odyssey

Everytime Calibre finds my device, a Bookeen Cybook Odyssey (why 3 names??), it just crashes. It's the only device I have around at the moment so I don't know if it's specific for just this device. The...

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Multi-file html conversion tutorial?

I'm sure I've seen this somewhere but I can't find it now. I thought I had seen a tutorial on how to put together several html pages with a toc page in preparation for converting to epub/mobi format....

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Adding Images

I'm new and not sure if this is the proper area in which to put my thread, so please bare with me. I've been using calibre to format my ebook to place in my Kindle Fire. Though I'm fairly certain I've...

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Regex help needed, selecting single tags out of namy

I'm having some trouble, I have a number of tags all prefixed with "QC: " that I'd like to extract from the tags column and dump into a custom tags column. I can get at the tags I want just fine with...

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Runaway conversion process!

Has anyone else seen this problem or is it unique to my particular combination of hardware/software? I realise I'm a little out in the fringes with my set up. PROBLEM: When converting format about 5%...

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Author level metadata

I love Calibre and I may be an atypical user, in that most of you can probably go straight to their favorite website for full bios and bibliographies and be purchasing and downloading books in just a...

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Shoft+alt+M only half works?

If i read the context menu correctly this should merge to the FIRST selected book? I find that is merges to the first LISTED book. Anyone else seeing this behavior or am i mistaken. 0.8.41 (I happen to...

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Kindle Touch freezes when books uploaded from Calibre

I have a 2nd gen Kindle and upload books from Calibre without a problem. Just got a Kindle Touch and when I load it with the books I have in Calibre (.mobi), I can read the books fine but when I am...

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Recommend Android reader?

I just got an Android phone (Motorola Triumph), and need an e-book reader app that plays nicely with Calibre's server to load books. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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mobi2epub:errors_by_epubcheck

I converted a mobi to an epub by calibre and then used epubcheck to check the new file. epubcheck gave me a lot of errors. Did calibre make a bad job or is there something strange with the...

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Templating Question

I have been looking at the templating language, but I can't work out if I can do what I want: If a book is part of a series I want it on my device as: {series}/(series_index}_(title} and if it doesn't...

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Problem with the Table of Contents of the mobi file

I have a problem with the Table of Contents of the mobi file. I use the CLI "ebook-convert a.html a.mobi --level1-toc //h:title" to convert html file to mobi file,but when I click on the middle button...

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How to make Calibre recognize Mac?

Hello. I'm trying to send an ebook from Caliber to the Kindle app on my Mac desktop. I can't figure out how to make Caliber recognize the Mac. Can anyone help? Thanks!

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