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Book "Title" too long

I recently "purchased" a book from Amazon called The Complete Works of Wilkie Collins... etc, etc, etc. When I try to add it to my library, I get an error message that the program could not open the...

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Virtual library question

If I understand correctly, a Virtual Library is a subset of the books in the current library. I have a library for Amazon books, one for Amazon free Mobipocket MOBI books, one for Mobipocket AZW3...

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how to decrease the icons in toolbar ?

Hi, why looks the calibre layout so unprofessional ? how to decrease the icons size in toolbar ? lg joe

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Metadata update from Goodreads

I'm trying to update the metadata on a bunch of books. I've used the Goodreads plugin, to link the books to Goodreads, so they all know have a Goodreads ID in the ID's field. I like this step because...

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calibre library is the same with direcotry to auto add

What happens if the directory to add ebooks from is the same with the calibre library?

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Auto-search for author

I know this is a bad time for having bright ideas for new features, what with Calibre 3 in the pipeline, but I was thinking it would be really cool to have a "search" option on the right-click menu so...

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When read_status set to finish, add a date to read_at

Hey ho Folks, i have a read_status field (Text, but with a fixed set of permitted values) with the values "finished, read at moment, unread, wishlist". And a field read_at (Date). What I want to...

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Calibre on OpenMediaVault 3.x

Hi, the Calibre Plugin on OpenMediaVault (NAS Software) has been discontinued last year. Has anyone installed Calibre on OpenMediaVault 3 and can help installing it ? Developer say it can run even on a...

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error communicating with device

When I connect my Kindle Fire HD 8 via a USB cord, I keep getting an error communicating with device message. How do I fix this?

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Identifier-like custom column

Dear Kovid, Is it possible to create a Identifier-like column? I'm currently utilizing the Identifiers column for second, third .... "series" [Series name:Number] and read status for my family...

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Calibre Wireless connects to :9090

HI I am trying to connect KOreader as a Calibre wireless device. But it connects to :9090 port. The thing is that 9090 is Calibre's default opds port so I do not understand what is going on here. I can...

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BUG v2.85.1 formats sharing books by email

I updated today to: calibre-64bit-2.85.1 My last version was: calibre-64bit-2.78.0 -- NOTE: I didn't test if that bug also existed in that older version. I noticed a bug, or something that looks a bit...

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Recipe: DER SPIEGEL?

Hi, today I tried the recipe DER SPIEGEL. It seems, that the recipe doesn't work anymore. Does anyone has a solution? gany

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African Food network recipes Reader

Built an ebook of recipes from the African food website. This plugin is based on Krittika's Recipe Reader, with a number of enhancements. The plugin will built an ebook from the provided web address,...

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Auto-hyphenation in Preview Panel?

I built an ebook last month, and everything went as usual. I started another yesterday, and I was astonished to see hyphenated words in the Preview Panel. In Code View, those words would be underlined...

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Which of these formats would give me a printed-like PDF after conversion

Hey guys. I'm new. Hope this is the right place to ask. I would like to buy a digital book and make a regular pdf out of it. Here are the choices I have as far as book file format/store: Amazon Barnes...

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Oopsie. Messed up a bunch of metadata.

What I need: Can anyone tell me how to check/correct a large quantity of metadata when my amazon-ids are suspect? Something that would work on exact matches of Title & Author only and give a list...

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Ongoing Backup

Hi I have just backed up my library to USB drive and wondered if anyone had any tips for ongoing partial backup for files that have changed/books added etc. Trying to avoid a complete backup each time...

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Error in conversion

hello Using for a while Calibre until now I never encountered issue with the conversion of ePub files (which is my main usage of Calibre). Since Yesterday I encountered 2 errors when I try to convert...

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The Daily Mail (UK) recipie omits pictures

The standard recipe for The Daily Mail does not print pictures contained within articles. Most every article has multiple pictures. Is there a way to change the recipe to include them? It may result in...

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