Unable to install calibre 0.8.52 on Ubuntu 12.04!!
I am trying to install Calibre 0.8.52 on Ubuntu 12.04 using the command: sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1);...
View Articlea question about emailing from Calibre
I am trying to email books from calibre to my phone. The input is MOBI and I changed the output to PDF in the conversion step. It tells me that the email was sent to my gmail address but it doesn't...
View ArticlePUDF to mobi conversion
Hi I am new to this domain but I've read a lot of articles. Somehow I can't make mobi files readable from pdf IT books. I have a lot of development books with a lot of code samples, tables and images,...
View Articleannother feature request: recording conversion metadata
I've been doing some bulk conversions and imports and thought of this. I would be nice to mark files added or imported as "Original" and warn about possible deletion or overwrite. And then record...
View Articleannother feature request: source metadata
I've been doing some bulk conversions and imports and thought of this. I would be nice to mark files added or imported as "Original" and warn about possible deletion or overwrite. And then record...
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Questions about KF8/AZW3/Mobi8 from/to conversion
Hi, I've tried to convert from AZW3 to ePub a sample downloaded from Amazon (search on amazon com kindle store "relatività esposizione divulgativa"). The sample is actually very small. It cointains...
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Author list sorted by numbers?
I hope this isn't hijacking the thread for my first post, but I've just spent hours tidying up the authors in calibre and now when I look at the author categories I've just got a load of numbers and...
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Filter metadata requests
One of the great features of Calibre (among many...) is the ability to automate the downloading of metadata. The request I have is for a way to filter the name (title) used for the search. This would...
View Articleseries numbering when there are 2 books in one
what do folks do when the publisher "helpfully" combines 2 volumes into a single e book. e.g. Philip Jose Farmer Riverworld series - (original paperback) titles 1 & 2 are now reissued &...
View ArticleTags viewable via Kindle?
Hi everyone, I have created tags for my e-book collection (which is in .mobi format), but they do not show up on my kindle when I send them to my device. Is this possible (ie. are tags made by calibre...
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Calibre Version: 0.8.53 messed me up Is there a way to undo this?
Calibre Version: 0.8.53 messed me up Is there a way to undo this? Before i updated to this everying was fine now its bugging me out alot. i like reading from PDF format...i know alot of people dont but...
View ArticleBulk author correction
I have about a hundred books in the catalog with multiple authors separated by semicolons. e.g. "Larry Niven; Jean Marie Stine". I want to correct these to ampersands; e.g. "Larry Niven & Jean...
View Articletxt to epub form feed conversion
Hello - I'm new to Calibre and ebooks, so please pardon my ignorance. I've tried using the help and these forums to answer what seems like a simple issue, but I just can't seem to nail it down. Hope...
View ArticleScripting ebook-convert for batch parallel processing?
Hi! First post here. I'm interested in using the bash shell to script the conversion of my epub files to mobi. Right now I have this working: Code: for f in *.epub; do ebook-convert "$f" "`basename...
View Articlecalibre manual slow to open on Sony
I downloaded the latest calibre manual a few days ago, and installed on my Sony PRS T1. It seems very slow to open or to move from section to section, much slower than an older version I had. Anyone...
View ArticleViewing azw3 files with calibre viewer
I recently converted a valid ePub file to mobi and to azw3 using the standard settings. I can read the mobi version with the calibre viewer, but not the azw3 version. All I get is a question mark, and...
View ArticleEssential text file being deleted during conversion
I was doing an epub-to-epub conversion of a book yesterday and noticed that the entire last chapter was being deleted upon conversion. Upon inspection of the original epub, it is a file with...
View ArticleAuthors vertically
Hi, on the first page of the online Calibre User Manual there is a simple two books example, that I admired, as suggested :-) BUT I look all around to have the authors names listed vertically in my...
View ArticleWhy doesn't it convert this TOC correctly?
Trying to convert this epub of Dracula - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=171804 to mobi format. The TOC gets wiped apart from the first few chapters. I'm guessing its something to do...
View ArticleAccessing same Library from 2 PC's
Hello, I recently moved my primary library from my Win 7 pc to my Linux pc. If the linux copy of calibre is shut down is there any harm in launching the library from my pc if need be? I understand...
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