Questions tagged [calibre]
Open-source ebook library management application for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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how to extract specific tag using calibre
I only want to use a specific "< d i v>" of the htmls to create epub, say, all the other part is useless.
Because each of the htmls is about 20k, and there are a lot of junk informations, scripts, ...
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How do I start over and create a new Calibre library?
I don't know what to do to get my Calibre library back.
I have tried restoring my Calibre library from backups, and either get a message that no valid library is present when I try to switch ...
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Reading annotations in Calibre
I have installed the Annotations plugin for Calibre.
I have added an annotated ebook from my Kobo Aura H2O device to my Calibre library. Then I imported annotations from the device and Calibre said ...
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Full text feed content to Epub
I know calibre can grab the RSS feed content to ePub content. But sometimes (most of the time actually) the RSS feed doesn't contain a full text. I also know that there some online service which could ...
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Adding Page Numbers in Word
How do I add page numbers to an ebook in Microsoft Word, in the following format:
No numbers on opening pages (Title page, Copyright, Dedication)
First page Number appears at bottom of Chapter 1
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Syncing highlights made on kindle with kindle for Mac
I have a Kindle Paperwhite, on which I've transferred books from my Mac using calibre. While reading on my kindle, I've made some notes and highlights. How do I go about syncing these highlights and ...
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how to use send to Kindle with lengthy web pages?
What's the simplest solution to send a long web page to a Kindle device? Normally I use five filters, but it sometimes barfs. In this case I'm guessing it's simply the size of the page.
I'm looking ...
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Is it posible to compact calibre library?
Haven't found any archiving functionality in Calibre by myself, so assuming it doesn't exist. I am right? How can I shrink the library size using Calibre without changing a books format?
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iOS app to read books from Calibre library store in iCloud drive
I'm looking for an app (or apps), which can access and use Calibre library, stored in iCloud.
It was pretty easy to set up Calibre on both macOS and Windows to simply load the library from a ...
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ebook-edit in calibre automation with python
I want to write a python automation program for merge html files in a epub using ebook-edit(in MacOS sub directory) in calibre. I know how to do it manually but I want to it many epub files ...
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Can I force Calibre flow mode to ignore page breaks and never skip pages like paginated mode?
Is there a way to force Calibre to scroll content like a regular web page, instead of scroll normally till the bottom of a page comes up, then skip to the whole screen to the next page, then skip to ...
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Calibre: suppress message that is displayed when opening to Full Screen
When opening to full screen, Calibre displays a splash with instructions. I have been using Calibre long enough that I don't need to see this message.
Is there any way to suppress this?
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Export annotations from (non Amazon) book on kindle
I imported a manuscript (not published by Amazon, or anyone else, at least yet) into my Kindle and used the annotation feature to note down corrections to be made.
I would now like to send the ...
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Selective substrings in TOC - calibre
I have 100 HTML files with a structure like this:
<div id="message-1">14 April 2015</div>
<div id="message-2">16 April 2015</div>
<div id="message-3">1 June 2015</div&...
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Calibre changes font coverting AZW book to EPUB
I'm trying to convert an azw book to epub. Calibre completes the conversion with no problem, but the font has changed (to something ugly). I know I can use the look and feel settings to fix this, but ...
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How do I side load a zip containing images of different formats to a Kobo Aura H2O?
The usual way I side load books to my Kobo Aura H2O is with Calibre.
I have zip files containing images with different formats, for instance JPEG, GIF, or PNG. The exact formats don't seem to matter....
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Create epub in Calibre without Document Outline?
I have a book that's made up of a bunch of .tif images. I have all the individual .tif files, and a pdf that's just them all put together. I'm trying to make a .epub file for the book. When I try to ...
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Calibre - output PDF with original page count
I have Calibre with opened KFX file, that shows after conversion to PDF 670 pages. However, the book itself has only 170 pages. How can I create PDF that will have correct page count?
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xpath in the calibre editor
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In some search operations in calibre one can use an xpath expression to get the values for particular tags, i.e. the following expression:
//h:div[re:test(@class, "figbox", "i")]
selects ...
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Text-align in calibre doesn't work
This code:
body {
text-align: left;
}
doesn't put my text on the left side. Instead I get the block format with spaces of different size between the words. How can I align my text on the left?
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Replace existing EPUB-files on Kobo with KEPUB-files
I bought many different epubs over the years and transfered them to my KOBO (h2o) using Calibre.
With the latest update there is a new feature (fast scroll) which I'd love to use on my Kobo. ...
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Notes for sideloaded material?
I see
Indeed. I forgot to mention that it doesn’t work on sideloaded content, or even stuff that you’ve sent to your Kindle through Amazon. You can get Page Flip to work with sideloaded content, ...
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What eBook conversions from HTML to Kindle and ePub scale best to 8MB input?
I am working with Calibre and now, from the command line, know how to use convert-ebook to transform HTML source to Kindle and ePub output.
The operation is taking multiple minutes, possibly my fault ...
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writing inline footnotes for html to mobi conversion using calibre
I'm generating html code that I convert to .mobi format using Calibre. I have implemented endnotes with backlinks as follows:
text.html:
this is some text <a id="footnote1" href='footnotes/1....
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Mathematica + Calibre?
The latest version of Calibre (August 2015) does a superb job converting doc.x files to Epubs. You get a perfect table of contents and better still, your text wraps around frames. Unfortunately, ...
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Kindle Touch 4th Generation does not render published font correctly
I am using Calibre to create an ebook in Urdu language. The language is written from right to left. The whole book is in Unicode and uses UTF-8 encoding. If I open the book in TextEdit on Mac. Mac own ...
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Calibre: Adding “, ” as a separator for splitting the authors string
All of my ebooks have a filename of the form
author1, author2, ... - [series seriesindex - ] title.*
and I have set up Calibre to read metadata from the filename.
Calibre, however, does not seem to ...
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Hash (#) in filename loses chapter information when converted with calibre
I use calibre's ebook-convert to convert HTML files into MOBI files. I have found that if the HTML filename contains a hash-sign (#), then the "chapter structure" of the generated MOBI file is broken. ...
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How can I add a news website that does not have rss feed, to Calibre?
Some of the news websites do not have an rss feed. Is there a way to add such websites to Calibre as a news source?
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How to send web pages to a Kindle from Firefox?
I'm looking to send web pages to a Kindle from Firefox, so am looking at:
https://www.online-convert.com/
Unlike Calibre, there's no convenient share button. There is an upload button for "the ...
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Calibre can optionally use a server to send mail
I tried calibre share/send to, but it failed with:
Sending failed...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/email.py", line 44, in run
self.func(*self.args)
I ...
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How to create plain text flashcards for the Kindle?
Amazon for the Mac can create flashcards:
Amazon Device Support › Kindle for Mac › Read Books›
Read with Flashcards
Flashcards are note cards created for select content on Kindle for Mac, which ...
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EpubCheck in Calibre gives errors with epub:type and aside
I get these two errors:
ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file 'attribute "epub:type" not allowed here;
ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file 'element "aside" not allowed anywhere;
How can I ...
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Epub: Paragraph breaks in unwanted places and leaves Widows
I converted my book from print format (indesign) to .mobi by exporting it via a kindle export plugin. After that I used Calibre to convert it to an epub. When I view the book on Google play Books ...
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Kindle Voyage does not show book transferred under Calibre
I have a Kindle Voyage. I tried to transfer an AZW3 or MOBI book with 17MB size
to it using Calibre. This book was previously converted from EPUB.
But it does not appear in my Kindle Voyage. I have ...
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Epub edited in Calibre shows no mistakes but IceCream Ebook Reader show me mistakes
I am editing a book with Calibre and it seems perfect with Calibre reader, but when I save it and I open the epub using IceCream it shows me mistakes, I trying to discover why. Any comments? Thank you!...
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How to convert epub/mobi to PDF without image distortion?
I've used Calibre to convert Mobi/Epub to PDF. The overall output is good, however, the image is always not in good shape. For example,
How image shows in Kindle reader (Android app)
How image shows ...
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how to use “create a book” from wikibooks?
I only see:
Print/export
Create a collection
Download as PDF
Printable version
whereas I'm looking for:
The wikibooks documentation is certainly thorough:
Formats
How to convert to popular ...
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log of e-books sent via e-mail from Calibre
Where can I find or generate Calibre logs for converted books and sent e-mails?
I see a pop-up for success/failure, which is good, but...sometimes the send fails. Almost always re-sending the mobi ...
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JPG loses quality during epub to pdf conversion with calibre
I have a epub with a bunch of formulas as jpg files. In the epub they are super crisp, but during epub to pdf conversion all the images become blurry, I'd imagine they are jpg compressed. How can this ...
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Occasional blank pages in ePub produced by calibre from Word document
I'm completely new to calibre and e-book creation in general. I've converted a large .docx file to ePub format. When I browse the result with the calibre e-book viewer there is sometimes a "blank page"...
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Calibre error: Failed: Fetch news from
Just a Calibre usage question.
When I click "news" I see a list of recipes to which I've subscribed, as expected. However, I'm looking for one specific recipe which doesn't seem to be listed.
When ...
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editing the font for a Mobi file
How can I edit a mobi file from Calibre to change the font? Converting from epub to mobi allows specifying fonts, but it seems that mobi cannot be edited.
(As an aside, I'm not opposed, entirely, to ...
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How can I find duplicate epub books based on word count?
I made a custom column in calibre and filled it with the word count using the well-known plugin (originally for page count). I would like to use these numbers for hints of duplicates in my large ...
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automate the sending of Calibre recipes to Kindle?
How do I configure calibre to "sync", or at least automagically, send "books" to my kindle?
Not "books" per se, but, specifically, magazines and other items through the "news" button on calibre. ...
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e-book cloud interface with Kindle web based admin
With regards to creating an e-book cloud, follow-up question:
how does this play out with a registered Kindle e-reader device?
Ideally, I would want to serve up a number of Calibre recipe's as well ...
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How do I direct links in popup-footnotes directly to main text?
Using calibre and epub3 I'm using popup footnotes (with epub:type). In some of the footnotes I present links (ex. a link to Chapter 2) to the main text. This referred text should not be presented in ...
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Calibre - display cover size on main screen
Is there any way to add a column with the dimension of the cover on the main screen?
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how to NOT have calibre reduce pictures' resolution when converting from epub (or anything I guess) to MOBI
I'm selling art ebooks on KDP Amazon, and I need the pictures not be shrinked as they automatically are when passing from odt to mobi/epub.
But it would be easier if Amazon didn't have to convert epub ...
