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[GUI Plugin] Recipe Reader

Create an ebook of recipes from Cooks.com by entering the urls of interest Main FeaturesCreate ebook of Cooks.com recipes Give the ebook a title of your choice Use generated table of contents to go to...

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"No" not showing in Book Details

I have added a Yes/No column, but if the value is No it doesn't show up in the Book Details Panel Yes/No columns can have one of three values Yes, No and Undefined. For my purposes No and Undefined are...

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Line Spacing

I have done a lot of lyrics and I'm using Calibre to convert them to E-books. I have tried every option I can think of using but I can't get them in the layout I want. This is part of a poem I wrote...

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Trouble accessing books after upgrade

I have Calibre on my Acer PC. I up graded to the newest version and now my books will not open. Does anyone know why and how to fix it?

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Updating built-in recipes from command line?

Currently configuring a headless setup with Calibre using cron, ebook-convert and calibre-smtp to fetch and email news. My question is whether the built-in recipes do get updated automatically when...

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Antivirus flagging calibre

I downloaded some freebies from Amazon and when I tried to edit the metadata I get a warning from AVG, my security software (screenshot attached). Any ideas about why this is happening? Thank you for...

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speed up metadata backup

Is there a way to speed up metadata backup? I'm in the process of backing up my library so I selected the "Start backing up metadata of all books" to update the opf files but it's taking forever to...

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Trouble transfering books to my Sony PRS-T1

Hi I can't seem to connect and transfer books from Calibre to my Sony PRS-T1, this is the error report: calibre, version 0.8.58 ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device PRIMARY KEY must be unique...

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.epub to .mobi loses pages, images, italics

Ok, I'm writing this because I couldn't find a similar problem. I'm editing in Sigil a book, converted by Calibre from pdf to epub. The book has over 100 chapter breaks, aka .xhtml or .html files (I...

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Progress for Copy to X Library (With Delete)

Just a suggestion. I've been performing some big copy / delete operations from one library to another (like 5000 books at a time). I've noticed that there is a progress bar for the copying process, but...

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Calibre 8.58 from OS10.6 to Lion 10.7

Add books only imports half the books, then ends. Anyone know why?

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Revised Recipe - Richmond Times-Dispatch

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond the capital of Virginia, United States, and is commonly considered the "newspaper of record" for events occurring in much of the...

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HTML to EPUB issues

ok, so I have a copy of a book, it's already split into multiple chapters, so when I add it to the library (I multi-select all the files after clicking add book) it's zipped. With a heck a lot more...

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Device questions

I sent all my books to my USB stick via the 'Connect to Folder' and then 'Send to Device'. I was surprised though when opening the USB location that it just sent the mobi and not the ePub versions of...

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Recover overwritten file...

I edited a file in epub that had orignially been converted from HTML. When I was finished Instead of converting from EPUB to MOBI, I reconverted the HTML over the EPUB. Is there any way to recover the...

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New Recipe - Warentest

"Stiftung Warentest is a German consumer organisation and foundation involved in investigating and comparing goods and services in an unbiased way. It was founded on 4th. December 1964 by the Federal...

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Parsing Index

I'm trying to write some codes to parse the index of businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...iness_news.htm). But they didn't work. Can anyone help? Code:     def parse_index(self):...

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How can I get comment in epub and show it on ereader?

Just "simple" questions... But first my workflow for "real" books: I go to a store and read the abstract at the back of the books. If it's good I buy it and read it at home - if not I continue...

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Adding books with the same titles by replacing them

It would be nice to be able to add books with the same titles and being able to choose Replace and Replace All options. Alternatively the same problem can be solved by a feature allowing to find and...

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Deleting format type

I've deleted many PDF files from my library, but now I can't find a way to delete the pdf link that appears in Calibre in format type for those books. Can anyone suggest how to do it?

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