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You can "polish" your ebooks with calibre since version 1.0. But you have to add the capability to the calibre interface:
To use this tool, go to Preferences->Toolbar and add the Polish books tool to the main toolbar. Then simply select the books you want to be polished and click the Polish books button. Polishing, unlike conversion, does not change the ...
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When someone asks me what GUI to use I suggest Sigil. I find that Sigil, unlike it's alternatives, does not add unneeded code to your ePubs which cause bloating, errors, and slower viewing.
Its code is also on github.
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Somehow I missed that … thanks to Donald.McLean’s answer, I found it.
In the ePub editor, I hit Ctrl+F, and a search & replace tool showed up at the bottom:
I have used the regex mode and the following patterns:
-</p>\n<p[^>]*> replaced with nothing to remove paragraph breaks within words. I hit Replace all here.
\s</p>\n<p[^&...
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Calibre has a feature that allows you to unpack an ePub file into the component parts (usually chapters), which you can then edit. When you have finished your edits, Calibre will repackage them back into an ePub file.
From the main Calibre view, right click on the book listing. You should get a popup menu with an option to "Edit book". Selecting this will ...
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This is not straightforward but there is a Calibre extension that you can install : Count Pages (it counts pages but it also counts words). It works only for MOBI and EPUB files so it won't be able to show the word count of books you have only in Amazon Kindle format for instance.
First you need to install Count Pages :
In Calibre Preferences window, go to ...
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Calibre already offers this functionality without any plugin. It's part of the ebook editor that installs with Calibre.
The editor will only edit files in the epub or azw3 format though. You can convert the mobi file to azw3 and then edit it. Converting it from mobi to azw3 may automatically downsize the file, but I'm not sure.
Once you have the file ...
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Calibre comes with an integrated editor that can handle epub and azw3 (Kindle) files.
It has a set of features comparable to Sigil, maybe even more complete; I think that it is also more actively maintained.
A manual and an introductory video are available on Calibre website
Calibre main program also has some minor tweaking capabilities, like editing the ...
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I have found the best way to get it 100 percent working is this:
If your book is not already in AZW3 format then convert it. (Has to be AZW3 and not just AZW.)
Secondly, highlight the book and edit metadata.
Once you are at that screen delete any other format that you have shown in the top right side leaving only AZW3.
Delete the tags by hitting the recycle ...
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The short answer is yes, and I have ranted about this in parallelizing EPUB polishing.
The problem with some Linux systems (Ubuntu) is that there is a limit to the message popup queue. Since ebook polishing (using calibre) is done quicker than the time a message is displayed, this queue overflows and calibre cannot write messages to it any more, and (on ...
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As you are on Linux, the way to do this is to change to the directory at the base of your library and do:
find . -name "*.epub" -exec /bin/bash -c 'ebook-polish --opf="$(dirname "$0")/metadata.opf" "$0" ' {} \;
This way you polish them all in one go.
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The calibre home page is at https://calibre-ebook.com As this is open source you can see what is included in the download. The source is on Github
In general for all downloads never download from a place that lists downloads always look for the author's home page. Or you can trust places you know about by other means than a simple search.
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The field for the ISBN is labeled "Ids:" and is located between "Tags" and "Dates". It allows you to enter ID types other than ISBNs.
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What you're experiencing is also known as the "Scunthorpe problem", which is caused by wordfilters going haywire. To make a long story short:
Wordfilters do not work. They never did and never will.
If you actually want to remove cursing from any text, you're looking at a major programming task. There is no short-cut approach that actually works. It needs ...
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Brackets.io
As a suggestion, I have been enjoying using Brackets to create epubs on my Mac.
Procedure
Unarchive your epub into a folder (change the extension to .zip, and extract).
Open Brackets, and go to File -> Open Folder. Select your extracted epub folder.
Edit any of your HTML and CSS files!
Activate Live Preview to view the ebook in Chrome! The ...
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Papyrus (http://papyruseditor.com) is a WYSIWYG editor for ebooks.
You can edit your book in WYSIWYG interface
Also, You can create your ebook cover right inside the editor
Disclosure: I am the creator of this website.
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You can do it easily from cron (if you are on *nix) and most probably it can be done on Windows too. Calubre includes several command line tools, but for you the most important is ebook-convert(.exe).
With that you can create a mobi ebook from the RSS recipe like:
ebook-convert WHATEVER.recipe WHATEVER.mobi
Mailing can then be done like:
calibre-smtp -a ...
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I assume you don't write the HTML directly, but use something like MarkDown or reST. But even if you do, you should look at Pandoc.
The program can read HTML and generate EPUB 2 or EPUB 3 (among others).
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Yes, it is possible and rather easy to do so.
You start it with the connect/share button on the main toolbar, then selecting start content server; it can be configured from preferences > sharing. It should be a simple task, if you need more help just ask. With this method calibre must be running because basically what you are doing is setting up a web ...
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Get the Quality Check plugin for Calibre and then use it's "Fix -> Fix ASIN for Kindle Fire" feature. It expects that you have the Amazon ID in the book's metadata somewhere, which should be there if you download the metadata using Calibre. This inserts the ASIN and allows goodreads integration to work. I tested it myself.
One annoying thing is that it ...
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You should consider converting these to EPUB files instead of PDF. My experience with Sony is that the EPUB files are handled much better (and faster).
You can use Calibre to convert DOCX, ODT and RTF formats directly, if you have the files in some other format you can use LibreOffice to convert them first to DOCX (make sure you have an up-to-date version ...
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Besides using a real ebook editor like Sigil, there is an easier way to do it.
Calibre has a very useful additional plugin called EpubSplit, that with a simple interface let's you select the single .html files inside the .epub and create a new ebook just from them; after the process is also possible to edit the metadata of the newly created ebook.
These ...
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If the ebook contains some definitions about the fonts to use, it takes the precedence over the default Calibre settings.
Maybe the ebook you are reading has some CSS rules that define the default font to use on the book itself (and probably the ebook even includes the said fonts).
You can try this yourself: this version of Treasure Island from MobileRead ...
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Is it possible to use a full fledged editor like Sigil. It works with .epub files, but if needed, before the editing, it's possible to use Calibre to convert the source ebook into .epub, then reconvert it after the job.
Anyway, for a faster and easier solution, Calibre has a very useful additional plugin called EpubMerge, that, as the name imply, can merge ...
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Some EPUBs may have font information specified directly as inline CSS. It will have preference over more generic options. In that case you can convert eBook and strip font-related styling:
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If you are using Calibre, its database is already set to have each piece of information about a book in its proper field (i.e., there will be a field for the title, another for the author, another one for the series and series numbering, and so on), but I'm sure that you already know this.
So, within Calibre, you don't need (and you are not supposed) to ...
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I hadn't looked before so I did a little investigating. With Calibre 4.23 on Linux, I found that it's not exactly Calibre, it's the Reader.
I don't know why this Reader (it's a newly re-written reader, but I don't know if the old one did this) is modifying the epub meta-data. There is no reason to do so that I'm aware of as bookmarks and other reading ...
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Newer versions of Calibre come out on a regular basis and I have not found a site from where I can automatically install the latest packages for my Linux system using the normal packaging download system (apt-get).
I therefore use a small script named update-calibre. It kills the currently running Calibre, moves the previous version from /opt/calibre (...
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This may not be the optimal approach, but it will work. You can unzip the epub and then pull out the html/xhtml files and printing those directly from your web browser.
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The option which came into my mind is to convert it in PDF with Calibre and then print it. This has however the disadvantage of adding a new passage, and besides it is also necessary to set up the page size and to find an application which puts all the pages in the right position.
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The calibre download page has links to instructions for all platforms that for which downloads available:
Linux (detects install 32/64 bit itself)
OSX
Windows
Windows 64bit
Portable Windows
But you might want to check these direct links for being the official download places and not another junk-yard.
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