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Calling Expression experts
I'm trying to get the expression to ignore anything before the author's name and, perhaps anything after the Title but this is as far as I got. I'm reading the tutorial...
View ArticleMore than 99 books in a series
Hi. Is there a way to register more than 99 books in a series? I have a series with 175 books (written by the same writer, with the same heroes), and I would like to write, in the 'Number zone': 1,175,...
View ArticleAdding another format to an existing book
Hi, Couldn't find it in the archives so here goes: I have a book, let's say it's an epub. I want to add an identical book which is in Mobi. How do I go about ta get one book with an Epub as well as a...
View ArticleForcing no conversion, just copy to device?
I do have 2 devices, an old Hanlin V5 and a Nook Simple Touch. Both rooted. Almost all my books are in fb2 format and I have no problems to use Calibre to organize my library and copy my fb2's to the...
View ArticleCalibre database keeps getting corrupted on Win 7 - help!?!
Hi- I am running the latest version of calibre on a Dell netbook running Win7. I have now had a few instances of getting the database is corrupted message upon trying to open calibre and load my...
View ArticleInstall/reinstall help
Hello, I have what is an odd problem. I had Calibre installed on an external drive (with library itself on another drive) and the calibre drive stopped spinning. I went to download what apparently...
View ArticleCoverflow speed
I like using cover flow view to figure out what I want to read next, because the visuals tend to trigger my memory of why I was interested in a book a lot more than just skimming titles. However, I...
View ArticleConversion oddity
I just loaded an epub into Calibre and made a mobi. I put the TOC at the top and did not set H1 for it. The TOC was all there (41 chapter entries) in the output, but the first 9 entries in the TOC are...
View ArticleCan I transfer / email a book to my Nook from Calibre?
Just received a Nook...is there a way to transfer a book via WiFi just as you can do for a Kindle? I'm guessing the answer is NO since I cannot find any information of sending via wifi/email...any help...
View ArticleCalibre doesn't recognize .azw3 books
I just purchased and downloaded a book "A Matter of Honor" by Jeffrey Archer and was surprised to see that calibre didn't recognize it. I see that it is an .azw3 book, but am not sure what that means....
View ArticleAZW, MBP ?
In addition to an ACSM problem, I've now got a "can't convert this format" pop-up for one AZW, and one MBP. I haven't had a chance to work on the ACSM yet, tomorrow I hope, but anyone explain these to...
View ArticleOPDS - iPad. Files downloaded to Stanza or Mega Reader do not keep metadata
Hi all Calibre fans, Having just bought an iPad, I read up on the best way to organise my pdfs and occasional epubs, and I was advised to use Calibre and the OPDS content sever so I could access my...
View ArticleLosing data
I have an epub document that loads and reads fine in Calibre. I made it from a text document using Open Ofice. But when I use Calibre to convert it to mobi for my kindle the first 11 1/2 chapters...
View ArticleSubgroups on Mac Lion
I'm trying to create a hierarchical Genre column as referenced here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/sub_groups.html; however, the pictures are leading me to believe that these are tailored for...
View ArticleCan you export specific Authors from a Library?
If I have one library and wanted to create a separate Library, that contained only one author from the main library, can I do this in calibre?
View ArticleTwo copies of book listed on Kindle after conversion.
I used Calibre to re-format a MOBI Project Gutenberg book, so that it was formatted to my personal taste. I find PG books are often badly formatted, Eg. big spaces between paragraphs, big indents at...
View ArticleChanging Author Name when Importing from Kindle
Hi! I would be grateful if someone could advise me on how to deal with the names of authors as I import from my Kindle. At the moment the author 'Patricia Briggs' appears in the 'Author(s)' column as...
View ArticleException when downloading ePub
I am trying to download ePubs by overriding the build_index() method as described in the 'sticky: reusable code'. The files are located at Code: http://dp.x-cago.net/pdf/DePers.epub...
View Articlecountryfile.com update
Now uses Soup and some string slicing to get the current cover off the website (content is unchanged) Spoiler: Code: import urllib, re, mechanize class AdvancedUserRecipe1325006965(BasicNewsRecipe):...
View ArticleFHM update
Homepage feed titles were linked to next article down.... Spoiler: Code: class AdvancedUserRecipe1325006965(BasicNewsRecipe): title = u'FHM UK' description = 'Good News for Men'...
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