MOBI file creation and Cover Thumbnails in Kindle for PC
Hi everyone: I've searched high and low to a resolution to the problem I'm having, with no luck. I'm a huge fan of David Eddings, and a source of continual frustration for me is that his books are not...
View ArticleCalibre Books To Kindle Keyboard Question
Hello folks, I am new here, sorry if this is widely known. Soon I am to wipe out my Kindle Keyboard 3G Then using Calibre lay back in books sorted (properly now) by Collections. It's just over 500...
View Articlekeep cover with book
I have an non Amazon epub book converted by Calibre to mobi/kindle content resulting in 3 files: book, cover and metadata. Then, I find the Amazon kindle book folder which has Amazon book files and an...
View Articleerror: bad character in group name?
So I am new to Calibre, and a novice in networking/servers in general, but I somehow managed to set up my Calibre library to "share over the net" last night. However, today things have somehow gone...
View ArticleWhat is a "jacket" in an ebook?
Sorry for what might be a ridiculous question to the initiated ... I, of the Great Unwashed, have been playing with KiwiDude's quality check plugin, and wondering what an ebook "jacket" is ... ?
View ArticleHow to import from calibre to another calibre library
I have access to my friens's Calibre library where all books are already with metadata and formatted for Calibre. If I just copy them into my CalibreLibrary folder, they are not, of course, added...
View ArticleDevice indication
When I have Calibre's Library open and a device connected there is a green check mark telling me whether a certain book is on the device, lack of check mark indicate that it isn't on. What about when I...
View ArticleUsing external application (or library) as calibre plugin
Hi! 1st - I'm sorry for bothering you, but I'm rather fresh user of calibre and it's plugins. I need to run external application, transfer filename to it, perform some action and transfer results back...
View ArticleanotherXPath expression request
Dear Forumites, When converting from MOBI to HTMLZ, what XPath expression will force a page break before the <mbp:pagebreak/> tag? I am asking because when editing the resulting HTML file with a...
View Articlenew developer: cssutils error in hello_world plugin
OK: I got the development environment working and was able to insert some print statements and see the results in the terminal after running 'calibre-debug -g' For the next step, I tried loading the...
View Articlemetadata edit very slow
Hi Since a few weeks is downloading metadata very slow. If I hit the Download Metadata it takes minutes, and sometimes it even doesn't work at all. Any suggestions to repair this?
View Articlepublication_type and dcetype
[ OK: Now that I can get hello_world to work, onto the real problems...] I'm still learning my way around the calibre code, so I'm not yet sure where the best place to change things is, or whether some...
View ArticleUsing Empty Books to store other document types
Hi! I'd just like to check if some of my actions on library management are feasible. When I write a course (as a teacher) I then store it in my Calibre teaching library. These are normally .doc / .docx...
View ArticleMultiple Devices
I am just installing calibre and is is asking for the type of device and email address of the device. Well we have 3 different types of Kindles and the all have a Kindle email address. Which one do we...
View ArticleKeep track of already downloaded items
Hi, Is there a way to calibre keep track of already downloaded items from RSS feed? My recipe generates ebook on daily schedule even if there are no new blog posts. I found a quite old code snippet...
View ArticleFirst image deleted during conversion
Calibre version 0.8.49: Preferences-Common Options Select Structure Detection and unmark "Remove first image" Select book Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin. This book has several maps at the start....
View ArticleImproving derStandard-recipe - how to get cover image?
Hi! I am currently improving the recipe for the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" (http://derstandard.at). I already added some news feeds. Now I try to change the standard cover image to the image...
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Diagonal recipe
New recipe source submitted for review and comments / inclusion: diagonalperiodico.net - A spanish critical newspaper Attached Files diagonal.zip (841 Bytes)
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AraInfo.org recipe
New recipe source submitted for review and comments / inclusion: AraInfo.org - Regional newspaper from Aragon (Spain) Attached Files AraInfo.org.zip (635 Bytes)
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