Free (Kindle) Siege Town by John Glasby [Vintage Gunslinger vs Outlaws...
Siege Town by the late British author John Glasby (ISFDB, Wikipedia, Science Fiction Encyclopedia), who was also a professional research scientist and chemist as well as very prolific writer, is his...
View ArticleMystery and Crime Hume, Fergus: The Solitary Farm. The Solitary Farm. v1. 2...
Fergus Hume: Born : 1859 Jul 8 England Lived : Thundersley, Essex, England: Died : 1932 Jul 12 Thundersley, Essex, England Excerpt The young minister and the elderly skipper discussed the subject of...
View ArticleMystery and Crime Hume, Fergus: The Solitary Farm. The Solitary Farm. v1. 2...
Fergus Hume: Born : 1859 Jul 8 England Lived : Thundersley, Essex, England: Died : 1932 Jul 12 Thundersley, Essex, England Excerpt The young minister and the elderly skipper discussed the subject of...
View Articleproblems with kindle equivalent of epub3
I wanted to buy Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "The Weather in Proust" and didn't dare buy it from Kobo as an epub3 (I never bought one and was afraid to have problems with it), so I bought it from Amazon....
View ArticleAura HD or Aura H2O
I'm having a hard time deciding whether I should buy the HD or the H2O. Both are "preowned" but the HD is $35 less than the H2O. Is the H2O worth $35 more? I'm mostly concerned about screen clarity and...
View ArticleFree (DRM-free) Beyond the Doors of Death by Robert Silverberg [Award-Win...
Beyond the Doors of Death by Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee and SFWA Grand Master Robert Silverberg (ISFDB, Wikipedia, Science Fiction Encyclopedia) & Australian author Damien Broderick...
View ArticleSimpler Editor
:help: Wouldn't it be nice to give those of us with no experience in HTML a simple editor, say if we wanted to remove the front or back matter only. Wikipedia has such an option even though their...
View Articlemoving old Calibre files to a newer version of Calibre
I had an older version of Calibre (.8) running on Ubuntu 10.04, PC died managed to save Library folder, but now I can't seem to get any of the files into the new version of Calibre (2.55) short of...
View ArticleQuestion if you please
I have a Kobo Aura. I have gotten free epubs from Kobo. sometimes as a bonus for purchasing others books from them at the time, or because of promotions through sites such as BookBub. At the time of...
View Articlekobo touch 1 vs kobo touch 2.0
hello, i'm in the search for a cheap e-reader, and i have seen some good deals on used kobo touch 1 and used kobo touch 2 on ebay. in your opinion, would you rather spend money on to buy a used kobo...
View ArticleDo you want a 7.8 inch e-ink ereader?
If Kobo produces a 7.8 inch e-ink ereader, and suppose it is similar in specification to the H2O but with a 7.8 inch instead of 6.8 inch screen, would you want one?
View ArticleUS copyright ownership issue
I wasn't sure if I should post in News, or General, but since it relates to a news article, here we are. Quote: "Actuarial leaders disband task force, object to paper on public plan liabilities" When...
View ArticleHelp with poorly formatted ebook
Hello all I am new to this forum and I love the calibre software. That said, I downloaded a novel by Isaac Asimov (The Naked Sun), and it appears to be a bit messed up. See the attached image. Before I...
View ArticleInsight into What Goes On Between Publishers and Amazon with Freebies.
I thought that the following was enlightening. I have often wondered what goes on between Amazon and publishers when there is a markdown, especially when there is a markdown to a price of zero, on an...
View ArticleRegex to find author names all in uppercase?
Sounds simple, but I can't seem to find anything that works to find books where the authors names are all uppercase. Must allow for spaces and the usual punctuation (,-'). For use from the Binoculars...
View ArticleCountry Idylls
I'm looking for recommendations for books, preferably in the public domain, which are set predominately in the countryside and have a happy theme; a sort of cheerful version of Thomas Hardy. I've read...
View ArticleError Impossible to had book
Hi Everyone! Glad to be here! Since the last 2 days, we cannot had new book to Calibre Dont know what to do? hope to find solution Thanks Attached Thumbnails Attached Files Premier message.txt (724...
View ArticleFetching metadata with CLI
I know about fetch-ebook-metadata, but I can't figure out how to use it properly with my library. What exactly do I need to do to fetch and attach the downloaded metadata? I need to do this with a CLI...
View ArticleI'm Stumped....
So today I came across an incredibly frustrating issue with Collections on my Voyage (latest generation). I have 8 Collections, that I manage directly on the Kindle (not jailbroken). All books on my...
View ArticleFREE Crime Thriller, The Conviction: Enacting Vigilante Justice
My crime thriller novella is free today through Friday. The Conviction: Enacting Vigilante Justice puts corruption in the US Justice System in plain perspective. An innocent man rots in prison, while...
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