Books deleted by Calibre in Collections leave traces
I'm not sure if this should have been in the Kindle forum or the Calibre Plugins sub-forum but I decided on this one. I have a Kindle and the Collections plugin on Calibre. If I delete a book in a...
View ArticleAre DRM books with check in/check out allowed?
Hi, I am interested in setting up a library for technical books at work. I would like to be able to buy ebooks and then have them available in my office for users to check in/check out. It should be...
View ArticleKindle Touch periodical generation
Hi, I have well-formed .opf, .ncx files, and a bunch of .html files to generate periodical MOBI. Kindlegen 2.4 gives me the result with no images, author names, summaries (see 1st attachment), there...
View ArticleCalibre: edit metadata doesn't work
if I try to edit the metadata of a book in Calibre , the search doesn't work. it keeps trying and trying but nothing happens. If I cancel and look at the log it says: " calibre, version 0.8.53. ERROR:...
View ArticleCalibre 0.8.54 Python version out-of-date
I have just installed the latest version of Calibre and now find that Secunia PSI reports the version of Python embedded is out-of-date. Namely 2.7.1150.1013 has been replaced by 2.7.3. As Python is...
View ArticleSquare brackets in filename breaking Calibre Regex?
I have a bunch of books with names such as: Book Title [ISBN-0123456789].pdf I've created a simple RegEx that should work (?P<title>.+)\[ISBN-(?P<isbn>\d+)\].+ It works in various web Regex...
View ArticleDefault E-mail address Wrong
Question please. I have added a new @kindle.com email address under preferences for sending books by mail to a friend. But when I run the welcome wizard it keeps putting HER e-mail as the main kindle...
View Article2 Libraries in dropbox?
Can I have 2 separate Calibre libraries pointing to dropbox? I have tried unsuccessfuly. How do I do that?
View ArticleKindle touch: How to save pdf annotations in the pdf?
I would like to save pdf annotations which I make on the kindle in the pdf (as done on a pc or mac) rather than in a clipper.txt file. Is this possible? Is there a caliber work around? If I change the...
View Articleusing search/GET BOOKS can I find books I haven't got?
ie find me all the books available by an author omitting those titles I already have in my Calibre database. Thanks John
View ArticlePDF Metadata Crash Fix: confirmed working.
Hi, I have added 407 books to my library. Previously I had to add them in smaller batches due to the possibility of a crash. Now I have added all of them, had a repot of "some metadata could not be...
View ArticleMigrating data from one Mac to a new one
Sorry if I've posted this to the wrong part of the forum. Please feel free to move it if it is more appropriate somewhere else. I have a Nook synced to calibre on a 2010 MacBook Pro. I've sold that...
View ArticleDe-DRM plugin not working
I'm using De-DRM v5.1, either as the plug-in to Calibre or the standalone AppleScript. It seems to work for some of my files (.AZW files on my Mac version of Kindle - books that I own) but for others,...
View ArticleNew Calibre user needing help!
Help! :blink: I have lots of books on my Nook from B&N and books that I've sideloaded through ADE. Now I've added books through Calibre but when I look for them on my Nook Simple Touch under...
View ArticleDate Added column? Can I set date when book added to library?
I love Calibre. It does so much so well. However... I just can't figure out how to automatically set a "date added" column. I did create a custom metadata column called "Date Added" and can set it...
View ArticleYah! I got my iPad 3, now what? :)
Yeah, a nice black 64Gb New iPad.... Okay now a new series of questions :blink: I went through the "Welcome" screen and confirmed my setting to Apple iPad. Then I checked that Output was set to "epub"....
View ArticleCalibre 8.54 - Problem with Sort
When I now use "Tittle/Author/Series" using 'Author' Sort all I get is the first author of that name ie one book. Before, if I put in "Dickens" I would get all the books written by "Dickens. Am I...
View Articlerecalculator author field
I have added some books to my library which display LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME in the author field as well as in the author sort field. I want the author field to display FIRSTNAME LASTNAME. The autohor sort...
View Articlecalibredb not acknowledging 'preferred input order'
This issue has come up in my attempts to batch import various books of mixed languages. I have set 'OPF' files as the top preferred input format in the 'Behavior' configuration dialog. When I add a...
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