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Change paragraph style?

I'm reading an epub book using koreader, and the paragraph style that's being used is indentation of first line in each paragraph. I prefer the style of having paragraphs not being indented, and...

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checking the list of the books on the device without connecting the device...

Hi. I just lost all the data on my ebook reader and I was just wondering if it would be possible to somehow let the Calibre show the last recorded list of the books on my device. Does it even store...

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Option to trim wasted space?

Many ebooks in ePUB, MOBI, and AZW format make terrible use of ereader screen real estate. Common tripups include: * Poor spacing between paragraphs * Poor word spacing within paragraphs * Insanely...

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How change the outcome after conversion ?

I have, say, two titles, T1 and T2, both of the same author "Aut". When I convert those titles from epub to mobi I get (after the conversion) one folder named 'Aut' containing two folders, 'T1' and...

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Converting formats from the command line on calibre 3.0+

I used to have some scripts that added a new ebook and immediately converted it to the formats I need (EPUB and MOBI), regardless of its original source. They worked by first adding the book to the...

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Kindle Fire giving "invalid MTP path" error

Hi all! (My first post here!) I've been looking around for a couple of days, but haven't seen anybody with this particular problem, and I've tried a couple of the solutions for similar problems with no...

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Get Books search

Hello, When using "Get Books" to search for books at different stores and I enter a title, I would expect that the only hits that would show up in the search would be books with THAT title. Instead I...

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V3 does not run in remote session

Hi I use X2go to remote to my desktop. V2 runs fine under X2go on Linux x64. I just wanted to try V3 but I am unable to to run it. I do not have vnc on the desktop because x2go is much faster and...

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ValueError: strings can't contains control characters; use plistlib.Data instead

I get infinite pop up thing (error unhandled exception) when I try to match a book with illegal characters (from a device) and I cant get rid of the cancel window I am not sure what it is called. But...

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Can I append the series info from the 'series' column onto the title?

If I have the series column populated, example, "Foreigner [01]", can I append it to the title, but in a bulk way for all my books in calibre? So a title becomes, "Book Title Foreigner [01]" Thanks ps,...

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Sigil not saving media as part of EPUB

I have an HTML file in one folder, incorporating media files which are in another folder. When I open the HTML file with Sigil (or Firefox), everything works fine and the files (audio or images) show...

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Site /download_osx bug

Can't download Calibre 2.85.1 from note 3 on this page https://calibre-ebook.com/download_osx Link on note 4 also contains Calibre 2.85.1 itstead of 1.48 Thank you

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Question about tweaking an option

I am using the following: {author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title} is there a way to save it to a specific drive and directory...

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Possible? On the fly processing?

Hi Is it ever possible to send "processed" files when sent to a device or downloaded from the internal server? By processing I mean doing some form of conversion, optimization etc on pdfs. For instance...

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OPen with does not like bash scripts

When I try to choose a bash script for open with for pdfs this is what I get. I am also hoping that this would be fixed for the last 2x version because I personally cant use v3 due to not running in...

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Calibre 3.1.1. not working LinuxMint 18.2

I have installed calibre on my computer using linuxmint 18.2 (based on ubuntu 16.04) and when I try to launch it I get the following in my terminal, but nothing else happens: QWidget::setMinimumSize:...

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help edit a very bad kindle edition - a sttyle per word

i bought what must rate as one of the worst coded books ever. An expensive kindle edition official game guide, where each word has its own style, making whole paragraphs non reflowable can someone...

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--daemonize gone?

Hey all, I'm trying to get the command-line server up and running, and running as a background process/server. When I looked up the latest command-line parameters for 3.1.1, it says there's a...

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Several columns sharing same set of author names?

In addition to my authors column I also use a translator, editor and contributor custom column. There's some overlap between the four, and ideally I'd them all to use the same master list of authors...

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3.2.0 Problem

First time in a couple years that I have encountered a problem using Calibre. Just downloaded 3.2.0 and now when I try to scroll through the Cover Grid I receive this error AttributeError: type object...

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