add books to calibre without copying?
Is it possible to add ebooks to the calibre database without copying the files to a calibre 'library"? I already have all of my ebooks organized on my harddrive. It seems silly - and redundant - to...
View ArticleKindle Mac app, automatic adding
I finally sat down to learn how to use Calibre. I have 300+ books in my Amazon Kindle "library" and want to store them in Calibre so that I can organize them via metadata and also keep track of which...
View ArticleWhat does 'Well-Formed Check EPUB' actually check?
I'm assuming that it runs the EpubCheck: https://github.com/idpf/epubcheck Is that right? Does that also validate each XHTML file or will I need to unzip the EPUB and submit each XHTML page to W3C for...
View ArticleCC V5.1.0 production release
CC V5 is a major upgrade of CC. Although the user interface has not changed significantly (we hope), CC's internals have changed a lot. In addition there are some new features and several bug fixes....
View ArticleLibrary corruption?
Hallo, I noticed something strange while comparing libraries. I have a main lib with all my books and a temp one to clean-up new books. When I compare books in that lib with the main lib it sometimes...
View ArticleHelp getting rid of kepubs
I'm not one to fiddle with my devices much (partially out of laziness and partially because I'm over my head in a hurry), but I dislike having kepubs on my Kobos. I never download from Kobo but only...
View Articlecalibre stops responding when selecting file
I'm having a really odd issue that suddenly showed up, first with 2.5.2 and continuing after going to 2.5.3. If I try to open a file from within calibre, as soon as the cursor highlights a file...
View ArticleQuestion about ConversionUserFeedBack
I am working on a calibre Conversion Output plugin and have come across something that I don't understand so I am asking about it here. Unfortunately, the plugin is expected to fail to convert some...
View ArticleLibrary Blank - rebuit DB but not the same
So the other day I noticed my Calibre library was blank. No matter what I did I couldn't see any of the underlying books. I found in the documentation regarding a corrupt db so I had Calibre rebuild...
View ArticleAudit Trial
Is there any way to get a session audit trail of changes - perhaps via a command line switch ? I know I can do a before after compare - but that wont tell what did what, i.e. was it me, was it Sigil,...
View ArticleIdentifying bad ePub conversions
Hey guys, I inherited a pretty enormous collection of ePub manuals for obsolete machinery from a coworker and it looks like he just converted a bunch of them blindly from pdf or just scans from hard...
View ArticleWatched status in Koreader file manager?
Is there a way to see watched status, as in unread/progress%/finished, in the Koreader file manager? Have been looking for a toggle in the settings but can't find one.
View Articleebook viewer: open book @ last pos - without calibre
Hi, I wonder how calibre starts the Viewer, opening a book @ the last read Position...??? If I open the book directly in the viewer - without calibre - it always opens the first page. Any suggestions,...
View ArticleChanging book covers
Using Calibre 2.51 I downloaded 1300 books from my Amazon account. All of them coverted to Mobi or AZW3 versions. I downloaded the metadata for each book plus new covers for many of them. When I open...
View ArticleChange the path of a device
Hi, I'm trying to make managing my kindle with calibre as seemless as possible. For that I'm now mounting my Kindle via sshfs. However, the mounted kindle is not detected by calibre by default. Even...
View ArticleKeyboard mapping ~only in Calibre~ is wrong
Hello; I'm using Calibre as an ebook server on my headless media server (Ubuntu 14.04) I connect to the server machine using VNC. When typing text in Calibre (such as doing a search), many (but not...
View ArticleCalibre-parallel.exe glitch?
Occasionally this process which normally seems to consume about 15 to 90MB of memory in each of the 2 or 3 parallel processes that run jumps to consume huge amounts of memory in one or more thread (up...
View ArticleCalibre custom dictionary
Hi guys. an author is looking for me to integrate a custom dictionary from Irish to English for his ebook. It will be only be 200 words maximum and I will have to input words and translations to...
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[Plugin] AddiBooksXML
AddiBooksXML: use this plugin to add the iBooks proprietary "com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml" file to the META-INF folder of an epub. Minimum Sigil requirement: v0.9.0 or higher Python...
View ArticleWhite border on cover
I'm using Sigil 0.9.4 The book is finished (very nicely too, thanks Sigil people) but the cover has a white border. The same book created in Calibre doesn't have a white border. I've edited the...
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