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First post - Calibre help - says database is full

Hi - first post - and probably (hopefully) being an idiot here. Running windows 10. Never had a problem with Calibre before. Opened the program today, added some books from my computer. Then tried to...

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"Add a book" template like "Save to disk"?

Save to disk has a template where the folder and filename structure can be specified. Does "Add a book" have the same sort of template? I would like to use author sort instead of author as the...

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help with search

So, I have a column (call it #od) that readinglist synchronizes with my device so that the library knows if a book is on the device or not. However, this column lags the actual status (I consider this...

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Kindle Fire/PW - covers not always correct

Hi there! I have this problem on two different devices, a Kindle Fire and Paperwhite. I've been having problems troubleshooting it, so thought I'd see if anyone here can help. When I transfer books, to...

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Can calibre handle close to 1million files?

simple question, most ive seen mentioned is around 200,000 ebooks. Looking at around 800,000 and climbing and need to know if calibre will havea hear attack if i try to add that many books, also the...

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covers in details

Anyone know how to change the size of the cover in the details panel? I have a few items I want to see without having to scroll down and the cover takes up half the view. Also, is there a way to...

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kindle oasis

hi guys, I'd like to find out if the new kindle oasis will be compatible with calibre running in my mac OS sierra since calibre can't anymore conect with itunes and i'm fed up of reading in my ipad....

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Calibre portable - is it portable?

I got fed up with losing calibre settings and libraries after a couple of computer meltdowns, so thought I might set up a portable install within Google Driver monitored folder, so I could do two...

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Request for feedback on French translation

The french translation usually takes up more space than english. This causes some of the labels in the toolbar to be very long. I was wondering if other users would prefer smaller labels for the french...

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how to fix/workaround a truncated table display

what I want to polish is a single table within the epub of Hilary Clinton - How I Lost. I jsut want to tweak my own reading copy. The epub opens with a two column table called cast of characters, which...

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EPUB Catalogs with plain text

I know this is an old thread and it seems nobody is working on the catalog feature anymore, but I have the same issue as documented above ... only for epub format ... I like to ask shether there is a...

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Wikipedia vs. Goodreads

Now that clicking on the author's name in the book-details panel takes me to Goodreads instead of Wikipedia, I find that Goodreads is useless in the majority of cases to find the information I seek,...

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Bug? No --search-replace processing in Windows

Forgive me if this has been covered; there's also a bug in the forum software, that a search for --search-replace finds so many threads without the string that it's useless. ebook-convert src.pdf...

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Sections Order

In my book browser window I have Section 0001.xhtml, Section 0002.xhtml, Section 0003.xhtml etc. When I "split at cursor" a new Section 0004.xhtml is created, and so on. Depending on where I do my...

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Help: Deleting no-content folder/author

I have lots of folders which I've removed the pdf/epub/whatever, don't ask why, it's embarrassing. More embarrassing is now I have over 1000 folders to search to find those without 'content.' Other...

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Issue when downloading harpers magazine on Ubuntu

If by any chance you use Ubuntu 14.04 or more recent and try to download Harper's magazine you will get certificate error. To fix it execute this: Code: wget -P /tmp/ -nv...

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How to force calibre to download only the Kindle ASIN?

Hi, I'm stuck on this one. I need my books (sideloaded) to have the Kindle ASIN (the one starting with B0) in order to integrate with Goodreads, but with 99% books, when I download the metadata, I get...

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Shift+Enter Bug?

Hi all. Does anybody have problem when hit shift+enter to break a line? Sometimes, instead of make a simple <br/> it creates a <div ...>, and after closing the div a <p></p>....

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Black bars over text when converting epub to mobi

Hi all, I just ran into a problem that I'm not sure how to solve. I took screenshots of the original ePUB and the same text after converting to MOBI. I'm sure there's a setting I can change or...

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can the source file change line spacing in final epub?

I normally make my books starting with LibreOffice in the 'text body' "style" and the file is .odt. Then in LibreOffice I turn the .odt into an .html. Then I clean up the .html in the text editor Kate....

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