Creating Book Lists In Calibre
I have several thousand books in my Calibre and when researching, I would like to be able to create temporary lists containing groups of books that I can quickly turn to for information. Is there a...
View ArticleCover for images or other file formats?
Hi all, some of my documents are scanned in jpeg or jpg format. I was wondering if there is a way for Calibre to generate automatically previews for image files or other file formats. Since one can set...
View Article[calibre-server] database refresh delay
I use a headless calibre-server (V2.55) on raspberry (Ubuntu-mate 16). What is the refreshing delay after changing metada.db from my PC. (I use Calibre V2.60). It doesn't seem working properly....
View ArticleOverwriting books
Currently, when you overwrite a book via Dropbox import, Marvin basically acts as if it is deleting the old book and then adding the new one (losing flags and collection memberships.) It would be nice...
View ArticlePDF hanging
I recently converted a PDF movie script into MOBI and EPUB and it took about 45 seconds each. I went to the next script, same length, same format, and it hangs at 1% for hours and never progresses....
View ArticleCopy to Library Function Missing
Hi Everyone I have been using Calibre for a while now, using it on various projects for client files and such. Brilliant program. After updating to version 2.64, many features seem to be...
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Odd behavior with Adobe ClearScan OCRed PDFs
I've been using Koreader for quite some time now to make not so very portable documents more so and it all went great until, and it is very odd, since a week ago or so newly created Adobe ClearScan...
View ArticleCustomize Tag Browser look
Hi guys. Probably this question already asked / answered, but I did not find any information about it using forum search. So, the question - is it possible to remove objects quantity in square brackets...
View ArticleConversion problem with work-around
Running on Windows 7 Pro, up to date, with Calibre 2.64 [64bit]. This involves a commercial book, but I can find no copyright statement, and the publisher is well known for packaging out-of-copyright...
View ArticleCan't connect to content server?
Help! I haven't used Calibre in over 3 years. I just installed the newest version on my laptop, running Windows 8.1, and I keep getting this error message: calibre, version 2.64.0 ERROR: Failed to...
View ArticleChanging email address - should I deauthorize ADE?
My ISP is effectively forcing me to change my email address - very soon my existing email address will cease to exist (grrrrrrr). I used my old address to authorize ADE 2 on Windows 10, and my Kobo...
View ArticleReading metadata from PDF (XMP)
Hi, It looks like there is a problem with reading XMP metadata from PDF files in my setup (2.63). Here is how to reproduce it: 1. Select a book and modify its metadata (add a tag, for example) 2. Embed...
View ArticleExporting /importing settings only
I am in the process of transferring my library to a new laptop. The recommended export method has failed twice and I am in the process of copying the library (books) to the new laptop. Once this is...
View ArticleCreating "short cut" for portable on laptop
I installed the latest portable version of calibre on my asus windows 8 laptop. Later i went to a book I had just downloaded and tried to "open" it with Calibre and got error message.....so I went to...
View Articlewrong book cover in calibre book viewer
I have changed the covers for some books. When viewing the book in Calibre metadata for the book or book details on the right side, it shows the new cover, but when opening the book in the calibre book...
View ArticleWhen I paste synopsis in the comment field I generally remove all formatting. However, when there is an existing text in the comment field when downloading the book, there are usually <p...
View ArticleUpdate an existing Calibre entry with a new file
It's possible there's a good way to do this and I simply missed it. Places like Project Gutenberg tend to issue newer versions of existing titles, with better proofreading and other detail fixes. Add...
View ArticleManaging multiple libraries in Calibre
I'm starting to contemplate breaking out my Calibre Library into more than one volume. There are several reasons for this. One is the size of the library. I have the master library on the HD, and a...
View ArticleSend books to Kindle into specific collection
Is there any way at all to send books to a Kindle immediately into a specific collection? i.e., from the send to device pull-down menu have a list of collections that are on the device or ones that...
View ArticleMass conversion on specific file type.
Is there a way to a mass conversion on a set of books, and to specify which file type to us as input? For example, to push new covers into .epub files.
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