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Matrix Cover Display

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but after updating yesterday I haven't figured out how to get the matrix display of the book covers, only a silly rolidex style one-at-a-time display. I find it...

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what a mess

I just opened Calibre and every time it asks if you want to update to the latest, well I have a new computer and accordingly thought I would update to the latest version and now all my books have been...

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Content server help please. Warning! Idiot posting!

I am trying to set up the Calibre server so that my family and I can access my (large) collection of ebooks from our homes at all corners of the UK. It works beautifully on my home wi-fi connection,...

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Advantage of KF8 w/Kindle Keyboard?

I have a Kindle Keyboard with ver. 3.3 firmware -- latest one I know of. Recently I've been using the Calibre plugin tweak test_mobi_output_type = 'both' when converting ePub files to Mobi. The results...

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new calibre help file

I've updated my calibre help file - it's still at the same url. I've added a topic on creating a wish list, and two topics on how to edit content (using Mobi Unpack) and .css files in exploded ebooks....

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CALIBRE RECIPE - PERFIL ERROR

SPANISH RECIPE: DIARIO PERFIL (ARGENTINA) Doesn´t seem to be right. It downloads properly the article but cut it in half. And post this notice: Follow this link to read the complete article (Siga este...

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Formatting folders...character cut-off issues?

Let me just revise this entire question.... Is there an easy way to display the book summary information on a side loaded book when you double tap a book on the Nook? Or are you forced to open the book...

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Heuristic Processing PDB

I'm having a bit of trouble with this. I have an ebook (PDB) which is a complete mess, it's all one single line of text, large parts are italiced and large parts are in bold for no good reason. When I...

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ebook viewer

Hello, almost every time I try to view a book in ebook viewer, I get an error and it closes with an error. This happens with both epub and mobi books. I have time to start reading again, so i went to...

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Teplate Error in Calibre Files unreadable after conversion

Hi' I have a major problem here. Firstly every file I try and convert shows "Template Error"sign just above the "Converting Widget" in the Calibre GUI (see attach 1) If I try and convert any file like...

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Disable 'Tweet' page in Kindle conversion

I study various subjects (very mature student!) and like to keep notes on my Kindle. It is one of my pet hates that every conversion inserts a final page inviting me to share my private notes with the...

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Wrong sort order when slash (/) in ebook name

I'm just maintaining my libraries and I've found a very strange thing. If the ebook name contains slash symbol, it does not order names well. As shown in image. Other way, putting date as "2011 04"...

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Multiple Custom metadata tabs

Hi. Should it be a way to get multiple (two or three) Custom metadata tabs, instead of one? This should be helpful, when the Custom metadata tab contains a lot of fields, not to use scrollbar.

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will calibre delete my other files if i used it to store the other files?

hello calibre community! i have files scattered around several hard disk, i was thinking of a way to create a unified system for files that incorporates calibre. i have several books in calibre with...

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What triggers epub split?

Hi been converting my whole library to epub and mobi. I set it running (took it 4 days for 9500 books with heuristic processing!!) However it keeps falling over on certain books. They are already epubs...

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Extract TOC from EPUB

Hi, I am using Calibre 0.8.38 in Ubuntu 12.04. I use the command-line tool 'ebook-convert' to convert a EPUB to PDF. But the TOC is not converted to PDF Bookmarks. Can anyone tell me which option i...

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Collections; Kindle 3; Calibre

Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm not very tech-savvy and after playing around with Calibre plug-ins for a while, I gave up. If I have, for example, 30 Stephen King books, can these be...

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Separating a library in two independent sets in the Calibre interfase

Hello. I have a large collection of fiction and nonfiction books mixed with a large amount of tabletop roleplaying games ebooks that I would like to keep separated, so when I used the search function,...

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lxml.etree._utf8 crash

This is probably a question for Kovid. I'm getting a trap in lxml.etree._utf8 with the message "ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes or control characters"...

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Mobi / Original_Mobi Issue...

I have about 350 books in the mobi format that were showing up in the docs section of my Kindle Fire. I reconverted all of the mobi files and made sure the [docs] tag was not present and they were...

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