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Do you re-purchase physical books as eBooks?

Just curious. Poll coming.

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Kobo Price Match experiences

Have you tried Kobo Price Match? How did it go for you? I have done about 15 price matches this year, and 13 went fine, including one price matching a £14.99 book with a £0.99 Amazon offer. The other...

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KOReader usage

I am curious how many Kobo users use the KOReader instead of the the stock reader that is within the Kobo.

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Errno 98 when starting content server from Web UI

I'm running Calibre in docker on an ubuntu server, using docker-compose.yml to define the container. I maintain two libraries ("fiction" and "non-fiction"). The Web UI works great, however, I get an...

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spacing between paragraphs

I have a few e-books that contain spacing between paragraphs. I know some people actually prefer that, but I hate it, I want the text to look like it does in a book, not with spacing between every...

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Both "The Economist News" and "The Economist Espresso" keep failing

Both these recipes fail to download and both show the error message: ValueError: Server is not reachable, try again after some time. And "trying again after some time" just results in more failures. I...

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How long does Kobo take to adjust sales tax?

On April 1st, N.S. lowered the HST from 15% to 14%. Kobo store still using the old rate though. Customer service confused when I asked about it. Any idea how long it takes to update?

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Libra 2 Struggling to change system UI (Avenir) font to another one with...

Hi I've tried to change the default system GUI font Avenir (header, footer, series names in My Books tab) to another one with proper Cyrillic support without success. The main reason is that the...

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"HTTP Error 504" On Scheduled News Download.

Problem I have a news recipe based of the basic one provided by Calibre that downloads four news sources a few days a week in the morning, however one of the four has recently been unable to download....

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table captions not displayed correctly

Hello, I have several ePubs which are rendering "table captions" incorrectly by displaying the text vertically. The problem exists both on the ereader (Kobo) and in Calibre ePub viewer, so I guess it...

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PW5 Change Screensaver to custom image on HF Firmware

Is there a way to change the screensaver on HF firmware?

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Other Fiction Saint John, Percy B.: Der Sprung aus den Wolken [German] V 1.0...

Percy B. St John war ein englischer Journalist. Geboren: 4. März 1821, Plymouth, Vereinigtes Königreich Verstorben: 15. März 1889, London, Vereinigtes Königreich. Hier >Der Sprung aus den Wolken<...

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Titles

hi, I would like to remove the text up to the second "-" character in all the titles of my many books, maybe someone can tell me how to do it? Thanks and bye Attached Thumbnails  

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PDF files only: when [] or () are used, the file won't open

My problem started (I think) when I upgraded to the current version, which is 8.1.1 For example, if I have an an editor listed in the author field, such as this: xxxx, xxxx [Ed.] the file doesn't open....

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[Enhancement] Plugin Max version

Has there been any thought of adding an additional (optional field) to the format of the Plugin index post to indicate the maximum supported version of calibre for a given plugin? I'm seeing numerous...

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