Good evening,

I've been using Calibre for about 2 weeks now and it seems that whenever adding new books to my Libra Colour I have to do it twice? First time will add the books fine, but Series info, Collection info, and oftentimes a "hi-def" cover (first time adding shows the cover but it's pixelated) are all missing. A simple reloading of the books corrects the issue. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

So I saw in other sub reddits that Calibre copies the books that you import. I have enough of a collection that the file size is on the high side. (I Love Zines, Art Books, and Photo Books a lot.)
I rather not have everything on my computer twice, so if the program copies everything would I be okay to delete the originals?

edit: Thank you for all the opinions. I'll bak up the originals until I am satisfied with Calibre edits then switch the,.

I’m wondering if there is a way to make this kind of column (or if one already exist) This column would act similar to tags, but have a pre-list of genres, where I can choose a book and give the appropriate genres to them (for example checking all the genres that apply)

Hi all, is there an easy way or a plugin on the windows Calibre to have it automatically convert and email to my kindle, upon auto-add from a watched folder?

Thank you!

So I recently purchased a 2021 11th edition Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition and not 10 days later the new 2024 models were released to include the Colorsoft. I decided to take advantage of my 30 day warranty and upgrade for longer term support and the color options.

Now, I have the Colorsoft and setting it up and sideloading from Calibre. I upgraded from 7.19 to 7.20 today prior to connecting the new 2024 Kindle.

Now, the fun part...

Some of my book covers show that were sideloaded from Calibre, and others do not. All of them worked on the 2021 Paperwhite edition. I am stumped on trying to get those that did not show to show up. I could use help if anyone has figured it out...

Starting to wonder if I should be returning the 2024 model and keeping the 2021 model!!! /frustrated.

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Aside from that, there are some other changes, I will note here for others that may be looking for information:

1.) You can no longer download from your Amazon account for "Transfer via USB." Only my old Kindle Fire shows up. Even with the previously downloaded file or if I download it by choosing my Fire, there are issues.

1a.) This has lead to an "error" message when trying to read a book I downloaded from Amazon, put in Calibre to update some metadata for easier book sort by title/author. I now get a message stating that the book is registered to another user and has to be downloaded from the cloud to be able to read it.

2. I had it set up on my 2021 Signature Edition model to save sideloaded books under Books/{author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors}. That pathway is now ignored and it doesn't make the "books" folder. It simply puts the books where it wants which is Internal Storage/documents.

2a) Attempts to create a pathway have failed for me, but is minor as I don't manage my books from the backend device anyways. I do it from Calibre, but would have preferred the ability to keep it clean with better organization on the backend if I ever need to be in there manually deleting or making changes.

2b) I believe the pathway failing to establish, even though set up in Calibre, is because it is no longer treating the device like a standard USB. I read it is some Android format... [EDIT: It is MTP format]

2c) Ejecting the device from Calibre no longer actually ejects it. There is no eject option as a USB device on the PC either. You have to properly eject it from the touchscreen of the device itself. Also assumed due to new format.

I'm struggling to sync my Kobo Libra H2O with calibre-web. I tried to follow the guides and did:

• Enable Kobo Sync in calibre-web
• Created a token in calibre-web
• Changed the api-endpoint in the Kobo's config file
• Create a bookshelf marked for syncing
• kepubify is installed and found

However, when I try to sync my Kobo it always shows a failure and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. I verified that the endpoint works properly by calling http://ip:8083/<token>/v1/library/sync which returns reasonable data.

As all is hosted internal there is no firewall, https, ... involved. Any ideas what could be the problem or identify potential sources of the problem?

Hi everyone. I have an old book a friend gave me and the paragraphs are all messed up. I'm trying to clean it up and it would be amazing if there was a function like "merge with the upper paragraph if the current starts with a low-case word". Is there something like this?

Is there otherwise a way to change directly in the preview without going into the html editor? It's easier to remove a the space between paragraphs than tags...

thank you for your help

I got a lot of pdf research papers on a a proxmox server and i now i have a minipc that i plan to install calibre-web on. Can i connect calibre-web to the remote server and make it dump the pdfs to the minipc?

Are you interested in such a plugin ?
In my 240+ books (old and new, in french and english), 190 set of metadata were available through Amazon and Google Books built in metadata. 50+ were not found. I wrote a quick plugin to retrieve the remaining metadata from IsbnDB API. If there is enough interrest, I'll polish it for distribution.

Hello!

So I’m moving some of my fav fics from AO3 to my kindle.

I’d like to take this opportunity to edit some of the typos and grammatical errors (I won’t be reposting this is purely for my personal pet peeves)

Is there a way to do this in Calibre? If so-will it affect the ability to later email to kindle?

Hi I've been wanting to purchase an ereader for a while. The main options I'm considering are a Kobo Libra and Kindle Paperwhite 2024. I'd prefer the Paperwhite because it's cheaper and newer but the main thing stopping me is I'm not certain whether I'd be able to transfer ebooks from my pc to the device with software like Calibre or some other means. I'm not very familiar with ereaders - is Calibre something I'd access via an app on the Kindle, or would it be through the browser? And does Amazon's DRM screw with trying to transfer books onto their devices? I realize this is a pretty broad question, not just limited to Calibre

P.s. with respect to the ethics of circumventing DRM in the first place: I'm mainly interested in reading classics and philosophical essays, which would be in the public domain and I know I could easily find pdfs and such online for those

Hi! I just got the new Kindle Colorsoft and I tried to send over my Calibre library via USB, but the covers did not transfer over. I’ve read that side loading is a little tricky on the new Kindles. I’ve tried on both a Mac and a PC. Anyone have any tips?

Thank you!

I get this message:

"Not Implemented: The following books are virtual and cannot be added to the calibre library"

I've previously had no issues downloading and "DeDRMing" Kindle books a couple of months ago. Could this be a DeDRM plugin issue with Kobo ebooks? These are ebooks I directly purchased form the Kobo store, by the way, not elsewhere.

So I'm reading a book with just one chapter and on top, where I have the pages left in the chapter it says like 20 of 256 while on the bottom, where I have the pages left in the book, it says 36 of 250. I get the difference of 20 and 36 because the first and only chapter started after pages of a preface but I don't get why the chapter has more pages than the whole book. I sideloaded the epub with calibre and it's a kepub on the kobo. It's just a bad formatted epub or there's a way to fix it? So far it only happened with this one, but I just recently got a kobo and I have only 4 books on it

I'm thinking of overhauling my tags. Is there a character limit for individual tags? Are there any characters you can't/shouldn't use in tags?

In the headers and footers section of the E-book conversion page of the manual, it references templates which are "snippets of HTML code that get rendered in the header and footer locations". Problem is I can't seem to find anywhere where I can add them in the conversion window.

Have I maybe misunderstood what the manual is saying or am I missing something?

Hello, please help!

I just got a new Kobo Clara Colour. Even thought some of the books seem to have covers in Calibre, they do not show up on the Kobo.

I have tried editing the metadata and adding a cover, and then doing the Epub to Epub import/export thing to make the cover stick and they still won't show up on the Kobo. Has anyone experienced this??

I am also unfortunately using an old version of calibre (6.29.0) because I have an older Mac that can't do the newer versions. Could this be the problem?

Please let me know if you have advice or solutions, this is driving me crazy!!!! TIA

I literally have one EPUB that won’t send through Calibre or Send To Kindle Mac or Web or via Email apps to my new Colorsoft. The bevy of other books transferred okay, though. I saw in the Send To Kindle File Organizer that the other books I uploaded are now KFX files. I have tried using Calibre to (re)convert this EPUB to a new EPUB, and even AZW3, to try to send it to the Colorsoft to no avail. I have a MacBook running on Monterey so can’t update Calibre, so I’m not sure how else I can try to get this book on there.

Hi everyone - my faithful Kindle Paperwhite 7th gen gave up the ghost recently and so I automatically purchased the new Paperwhite 12th gen… but I plan to return it and buy something different - what would you recommend? This is my situation:

-sideloading from Calibre 7.20 on MacOS Sonoma -files are mostly mobi format -want to transfer via USB and not have to email sync anything -like to have books filed as collections by author name on my device -no need for a colour screen and prefer a smaller size device

• I’m in Australia and my library uses BorrowBox - I haven’t used this before but could be a nice value add if it’s compatible!

In doing my research (after realising the new Paperwhite wouldn’t let me drag and drop files the same way I’m used to doing) it sounds as if the Kobo Clara BW could be a good choice. But as someone who is a complete Luddite, I was intimidated by the plugins that appear to be recommended to make it work. If you’ve made a similar decision recently or have a recommendation for me, I’d be incredibly grateful - thank you!

Yeah question aboth

Any way to have the default kindle experience, like X-ray, about this book and popular highlights?

I'm using epubs and /sendtokindle

I have a large catalog of old iSilo .pdb books that I purchased years ago. I haven't used iSilo for years, but now have a pocketbook that can read .pdb — my only problem is that there was a registration key from the publisher, I do have the key but now I have no way to input it in pocketbook. When I try to open the book in pocketbook it just says that it may be under copyright. My search brought me to Calibre and some plugins, but I haven't found one that works. I tried one to remove DRM and even had customize to input keys, but it was the wrong thing. I get an error that there is no DRM. Please help! I want my books back!!

Hello,

I have a following idea in my head: I have added some custom metadata fields to my books and now I would like to automatically generate covers that include some of these metadata. Is this possible?

I assume I need at least some kind of plugin for it - and I do have the Generate Cover plugin installed. But it does not seem to recognize my custom fields. I can only add fields like {comments}, which were already available as metadata before (also, it always adds the comments with HTML tags included, which really makes me unwilling to work with this field).

So, to sum up, my wish would be that I can somehow automatically generate covers that include data like:

[TITLE]

[AUTHOR]

[MY CUSTOM METADATA]

Feels like it should be doable. But I haven't managed yet.

Thanks in advance!

I dont know if this is a bug or something else but is driving me crazy and I want to know if it ever happened to anyone else. I cannot use the search function in my library because every time I try to type some key it just activate some shortcut instead of writing anything. For example i cannot never write the letter "a" because it activates the shortcut to add books. Something similar happens for almost every letter of the alphabet and as a result calibre is near useless, there is a way to fix this?

Im using the version 7.20 and im in linux btw.

Hello,

I bought an ebook from a book retailer and would like to transfer it to my Kindle.

The file I downloaded from the store is an epub. If I open it in the latest version of Abode Digital Editions, everything displays correctly.

However, when I import it into Calibre and open it with the E-book viewer, or try to transfer it on my Kindle, it displays like this. The text is cut on the right side and the footnotes are overlapping the text:

https://preview.redd.it/uzh1wvvzq3yd1.png?width=1001&format=png&auto=webp&s=beb05cdde849901395e2aa1b34702edcb98e4f96

Converting it to other formats doesn't solve the problem (I tried AZW3, MOBI and PDF).

The weird thing is that when I open the epub in the Calibre e-book editor, it displays correctly in the file preview.

https://preview.redd.it/afhfanssq3yd1.png?width=998&format=png&auto=webp&s=d38c01db806a858b3f59bdcc2c8ad13329e1305b

I feel like there might be a problem with the fonts exceeding the page size, but I don't know how to correct this.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you very much in advance for any help you can provide.

I am trying to transfer my kindle books to my Kobo Clara BW. They download from amazon in az3 format. When I add books it changes them to epub. When I convert to kepub, these files do not show up on the kobo. I am also using the KoboTouchExtended plugin and have “convert to kepub when sending” checked. It still sends over books as epubs.

When adding omnibus collections - how can I note that a book contains multiple series numbers?

i.e.

Book A - series XYZ books 1-3

Book B - series XYZ books 4-6

I'm having a problem putting anything other than a single digit in the "Number:" field

Can you remove DRM, or did Amazon put a stop to that?