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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Calibre No Longer Working
Calibre stopped working recently. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
When I open a terminal and call $calibre I get the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/...
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How do I get a dark theme/night mode in Calibre Ebook Viewer?
Most Ebook readers come with a standard easy Night Mode switch. I'm trying to figure this out in Calibre. So far, I've been able to change the app theme to use my dark System theme by creating
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How to convert this chm file to pdf? [duplicate]
I want to convert a chm file to a pdf file.
Calibre's command ebook-convert ebook-convert 1.chm 1.pdf only converts the first 7 pages of the chm file into a pdf file, while the chm file has much more ...
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Mimetype mess after calibre installation. How can I fix it?
I always get text/plain or application/octet-stream when running "mimetype" on all file types.
The command "file --mime-type" seems to identify correctly the different file types. For instance, if I ...
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How to run or execute the ebook-convert script from a flatpak install of calibre?
Where and how can I run the ebook-convert script for calibre from the console?
nicholas@gondor:~$
nicholas@gondor:~$ flatpak info com.calibre_ebook.calibre
calibre - The one stop solution to all ...
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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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Is there a way to open DRM protected books?
Is there a way to open a DRM protected book that I have purchased in Ubuntu 11.10 64bit. I also have Calibre installed.
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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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