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epub looks fine using Calibre viewer, but not on Nook
I've got a couple amazon AZW3 kids books in calibre. I've converted them to EPUB. In the calibre view, they look fine. When I load them on my son's Nook ST, the formatting is off. It's as if the page...
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Change URL in "this article was downloaded from..."
Is there a way to set a different url for the link at bottom that says "this article was downloaded by calibre from (url)". I want to set the url to a human friendly one. The url the recipe is...
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KA1 - Renewed book on overdrive website...
and synced kobo but it's still showing as expired. I used my overdrive account on my laptop to renew the book 3 days ago and it was available immediately for renewal (no one else waiting). When it...
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"Get Books" search finds nothing
New to Calibre I have tried author's last names only, both first and last name, titles and author, titles only, and the Get Books feature doesn't find anything. The websites to search on the left have...
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What is the max size allowed for a Sigil plugin ?
I'm hoping someone can answer this. Some background. I've written a python app(as a Windows exe) that converts a Word filtered HTML file directly to epub. I was hoping to port this python code to a...
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Free (Kindle) No Mercy by Philip McCormac [Western Retirement Revenge Action...
No Mercy by Philip McCormac is his standalone western historical action adventure novel, starring a notorious former Civil War soldier trying to settle down into a quiet new life, only to have old...
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Open Metadata Editor from plugin
Hi! I would like to open the Metadata Editor from my plugin. I've the bookid and I guess it has something to do with calibre/src/calibre/gui2/actions/edit_metadata.py and the InterfaceAction class....
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Quality of images
Hello, I am using Calibre to create an epub file. Unfortunately it is reducing the quality of the images in the document significantly (from 300dpi to maybe around 50dpi or below). Please can you tell...
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Instapaper recipe issue & fix
Hi. I recently experienced errors using the Instapaper recipe with some longer articles, and traced it down to this error: Code: SplitError: Could not find reasonable point at which to split:...
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actions toolbar
i just downloaded calibre & opened an ebook, but there is no actions toolbar neither on top or on the side. How do i activate it?? this is in ubuntu
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Hello from Birmingham, UK
I'm new to ebook writing so I joined this forum. I used a free Kindle app on my laptop, iPad and iPhone to read many ebooks until I caught the bug and decided to write ebooks myself. Hi, I'm a retired...
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Column highlighting hides coloring
This is more out of curiosity. I have different colors for some columns (eg. Title is green if I have edited all I need to with metadata and tags). However, when a book is selected, all of the coloring...
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Seriousness The $50 Android tablet
I posted an earlier thread here a while back about a $20 Android tablet. Retailer MicroCenter had opened an outlet in Brooklyn, NYC, which was convenient to me by subway, and a card appeared in my...
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Google Home
Google Home --> updated 04 Oct 2016 Quote: Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant. Ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own Google, always ready to...
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Can't access server/server timeout
I am running Calibre 2.69 on a Win 10 machine. Have been running on Win10 for a year. Have had server running over 2 years same machine worked through all updates. Last week Norton updated since then...
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Where is Kindle Android hiding the book files now?
Just downloaded and read "Silo 49: Going Dark" by Ann Christy. It is NOT anywhere under Android\data\com.amazon.kindle or in the Kindle folder where it used to put downloaded books. Sideloaded books go...
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parse image url added later in the webpage
dear all, i am trying to write a recipe for this http://www.scmp.com/frontpage/hk the text is fine to be retrieved. however, the image is added later after the page is loaded. can we use recipe to get...
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Free (nook/Kindle/Kobo) The One You Love [Missing Fiancé Mystery Suspense...
The One You Love by British author Paul Pilkington, who has written material for BBC Radio, is the 1st novel in his Emma Holden Trilogy of contemporary mystery/suspense thriller novels, starring a...
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Is there a way to email books to a Glowlight+?
The Kindle has had this for a while. Is there any way to do this on the nook?
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Metadata Modifications?
Well, I am a totally newbie to this forum but I use calibre for years meanwhile and have archivated several thousand of ebooks. Before I regsitered I read several threads in here that some of my wishes...
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