Questions tagged [calibre]
calibre is free and open source e-book computer software that organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats.
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Why has Calibre stopped working?
Have used Calibre for years to transfer ebooks to my tablet but has stopped recognizing the device and any update for Calibre fail to work through Terminal.
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Calibre does not detect Kobo CLara 2E
I have bought a KOBO Clara 2E ereader. So far i have been unable to connect it to Calibre. I have also been unable to find a solution on the Internet, though there are lots op people who did say ...
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Does Calibre support Full Text Indexing / Search?
Calibre has tons of plugins, but what I really miss is full text search for all my books (mainly pdf and DJVU). Is this implemented, is there a plugin available? I can only find feature requests that ...
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Why does the pdf file converted from epub by Calibre miss some contents?
I have an epub file, which I converted into a pdf file using Calibre's ebook-convert command. But the resulted pdf file misses an article named "The Conquest, War, and Genocide", for Joshua ...
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Mimetype mess after calibre installation. How can I fix it?
I always get text/plain or application/octet-stream when running "mimetype" on all file types.
The command "file --mime-type" seems to identify correctly the different file types. For instance, if I ...
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How can I convert this epub file to pdf?
I have tried Calibre to convert an epub file to pdf, following https://askubuntu.com/a/299752/
ebook-convert /tmp/1.epub 1.pdf
but it fails with many errors.
$ ebook-convert --version
..ebook-convert-...
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When I change book name in Calibre I lose the books and get links instead - Why?
When I change a book name in the Edit Metadata screen, Calibre is changing the folder where the books reside. after the change I get a link in the new folder to a file in the old folder. I have 2 ...
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Calibre E-book Content Server not working on Ubuntu 22.04
Background Info:
I've used Calibre for many, many years. I use the content server to allow access to my libraries over my local network. However, sometime in December the content server stopped ...
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How to convert this chm file to pdf? [duplicate]
I want to convert a chm file to a pdf file.
Calibre's command ebook-convert ebook-convert 1.chm 1.pdf only converts the first 7 pages of the chm file into a pdf file, while the chm file has much more ...
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Convert PDF uni-directional cross-reference links to bi-directional links
I have a PDF file with some cross-reference links which when clicked on, they point to different parts of the file. However, this works only in one direction, say from "link..." to "...
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How to send an ehlo test e-mail from calibre?
An excerpt from a failed test e-mail in calibre
Starting job: Email book to [email protected]
connect: to ('smtp.ionos.com', 587) None
reply: b'220 perfora.net (mreueus004) Nemesis ESMTP ...
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How do you download Calibre on Ubuntu 20.04?
It sounds simple, but I'm not a coder and I have a few hoops to jump through:
How do you download a 32-bit version, and
Is there a DRM removal plugin that works with it?
I've agonized over this for ...
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Calibre sets itself as the default app for everything - how to change that?
so I've been using calibre for e-books for a while, it's great, but it sets itself as the default application for every filetype that isn't explicitly set by another program.
This is very annoying, ...
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How do I download Calibre on Ubuntu? [closed]
I know nothing about code. I'd need a blow-by-blow, subtle as an atomic bomb explanation of how to download Calibre on Linux, with Ubuntu.
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Calibre error: 'QWebEngineProfile' object has no attribute 'setUrlRequestInterceptor', how do fix it? Ubuntu 20.04
calibre, version 4.99.4 (linux, embedded-python: False)
Conversion error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (Unity in Action, Third Edition)
Convert book 1 of 1 (Unity in Action, Third Edition)
Conversion ...
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How to run or execute the ebook-convert script from a flatpak install of calibre?
Where and how can I run the ebook-convert script for calibre from the console?
nicholas@gondor:~$
nicholas@gondor:~$ flatpak info com.calibre_ebook.calibre
calibre - The one stop solution to all ...
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ebook viewer - Qt WebEngine Render process has crashed (ubuntu 22.04)
Just upgraded to 22.04 and the ebook viewer is unable to open .mobi file with ebook viewer error message:
calibre, version 5.41.0
ERROR: Render process crashed:
The Qt WebEngine Render process has ...
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My epub books became folders of the same name, how do I get them back?
I had a lot of epub books on my MacBook, and I exported them from IBook;
But I found that when they were synced to ubuntu pc by Google Drive, they became folders with the name like `Books.epub'
How ...
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How to add page numbers to output when converting epub file via command line interface of ebook-convert (calibre)?
I have an epub file and want to convert it into a PDF file.
I am using ebook-convert as suggested in converting epub files to PDF format (version: ebook-convert (calibre 3.21.0))
I am looking for a ...
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How do I get a dark theme/night mode in Calibre Ebook Viewer?
Most Ebook readers come with a standard easy Night Mode switch. I'm trying to figure this out in Calibre. So far, I've been able to change the app theme to use my dark System theme by creating
$ sudo ...
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Adobe Digital Edition not opening in WIne
Been through all the posts out there and almost all are outdated. Installed latest Wine stable + wine-gecko-2.47.1. I then downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 4.5. Installation in Wine went smoothly. By ...
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How can I remove the DRM from PDFs so that I can read them in Google Play Books
Google Play Books is my reader app of choice for Android. I like that I can highlight and take notes, and that I have a pipeline for those notes to get them in to an Anki deck (amongst other things).
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How do I convert epub to mobi using calibre?
How do I convert epub to mobi using Calibre for this?
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Calibre not working in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I tried to install calibre in Ubuntu 20.04 and it won't launch.
I followed the instructions from another question (Calibre No Longer Working) but it didn't work.
This is how I installed (version 5.20....
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how to launch flatpak calibre from the console?
How do I start calibre from the bash console?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ com.calibre_ebook.calibre
com.calibre_ebook.calibre: command not found
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ ...
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Where is the man or manpage for a flatpak application?
How would I read the man page for calibre when it's installed from flatpak as below?
nicholas@gondor:~$
nicholas@gondor:~$ flatpak info com.calibre_ebook.calibre
calibre - The one stop solution to ...
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flatpak calibre: Cannot read from /home/nicholas/in.epub (permissions?)
Looking to convert an epub to mobi with calibre:
nicholas@gondor:~/ebooks$
nicholas@gondor:~/ebooks$ flatpak --command="sh" run com.calibre_ebook.calibre -c "ebook-convert ~/in.epub ~/...
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Calibre No Longer Working
Calibre stopped working recently. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
When I open a terminal and call $calibre I get the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/...
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How to convert ebook in Calibre?
How do you convert an ebook to a different format in Calibre?
If I select a book, click the big "Convert Books" button, select output to "MOBI", and click "OK", it ...
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Calibre crashing on start-up
When I try to launch calibre I get the following error:
calibre
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Gtk-Message: 14:55:04.251: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
Traceback (most recent call last):
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Cannot launch the Calibre ebook reader? [duplicate]
Why isn't calibre starting below?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ sudo apt install calibre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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How to add offline dictionary to Calibre?
"I have recently installed calibre for ebook reading. To find the meaning of unknown words, the calibre has an option to look into the dictionary. I know to use an online dictionary with calibre. ...
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Evince: How do I set a keybinding for the autoscroll?
I use evince with calibre as my primary ebook reader on Lubuntu 20.04. I find the autoscroll feature pretty useful. How can I set a keybinding to toggle autoscroll on evince?
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Calibre. does it possible to use network samba share for library storage folder
Ubuntu xenial 16.04. Calibre 2.55. All work fine, but when i try to create an empty library on a nas share selecting an empty Untitled Folder.
i got Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/...
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Add notes to books in Calibre
Does anyone know of a plugin that lets you add notes to books in Calibre?
I read quite a lot of books (actual books) and I'm quite used to add little side notes on small sticky notes. Since some ...
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Calibre on Ubuntu 18.04 installed in wrong language
I have installed Calibre via Apps and a momentary lapse means it is now running in Chinese. Removed it, restart, reinstall, no change. Removed it via GUI, then tried in terminal
ls /opt/calibre
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How to install Calibre on Ubuntu 12.04
Im trying to install Calibre e-book manager on my computer, i'm a newbie to linux and i dont know where the "installation directory" is....Here are the commands that they have in order to install it......
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How do I run a python script with Wine?
I'm using Calibre to manage my ebooks and I'm trying to install a plugin that will allow me to manage library books that I get through Adobe Digital Editions via Wine. I've got everything installed, ...
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Calibre can not send book to Kindle
I don't know why but Calibre stopped sending working with my Kindle on Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits.
Till a few time ago everything was working just fine, but now whenever I connect my Kindle and try to send ...
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How to convert cbr to pdf?
I have a comic strip book in cbr (Calibre?) format. How can I convert it to pdf in my Ubuntu 12.04? I tried to install calibre hoping that it is able to do so. But it seems to be buggy and does not ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Evince and Calibre reader must be restarted every page to load font
For PDF files about 15 MB or more, the fonts are garbled every time I go to a new page.
If I close the file and reopen it, the font on the current page is fine, but other pages are garbled. It ...
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Problems with installing Calibre on Ubuntu 16.04
I installed calibre. When i try to open it via console it states
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
Available platform plugins ...
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Calibre server doesn't start on Ubuntu server 16.10 with systemd
I am trying to get Calibre server to start automatic during startup.
I have used this tutorial.
Then I've used this script:
[Unit]
Description=Calibre Service
After=network.target
[Service]
User=...
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Diagnosing a service not starting on reboot (Calibre eBook)
I'm trying to figure out why a couple of my services aren't starting up at reboot. Once the system is up and running, I can run the service without issue.
/var/log/error.log
Nov 16 04:01:31 Ubuntu ...
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Calibre crashes with "Segmentation fault" (core dumped)
I am using Ubuntu 16.04. LTS and I have calibre installed. Unfortunately, it doesn't launch anymore and crashes on startup without any error message. When I launch calibre from terminal (to get some ...
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Delete or merge duplicate books at Calibre
I'm managing my e-books with Calibre. Unfortunately, in there kinda 1000+ duplicates has been created when I was importing 10,000 books.
Also there were some books with no formats available, means ...
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When is the latest Calibre 3 going to be available in Ubuntu 16.04 in Software Center?
The current version which is 2.55.0 is not working for me and does not support my Pocketbook Inkpad 3 ebook reader and other ways of installation are too complicated for me.
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Software Updater - Problem after Calibre upgrade
I'm new around here so first of all sorry if this is not the right place to post.
I am using Calibre under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Recently I decided to upgrade from the version distributed through the ...
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PDF book opens in Mendeley when openned from Calibre
I have Ubuntu Gnome installed and I am using i3wm. Everytime I double click a book in Calibre to open it it opens in Mendeley desktop.
This doesn't happen under Gnome.
Could you explain why this ...
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convert zip file to ebook
I want to convert a zip file into an ebook using calibre 3.2.1 but the order of the chapters is in alphabetical order. You might be able to imagine that reading a book with the chapters in ...