My Kindle eBook has chapter headings like: Chapter I
- AT MAYTREE COTTAGE
The equivalent HTML seems to be :
<p class="calibre_12"><font size="4"><span class="bold">Chapter I</span></font></p><p class="calibre_12">- AT MAYTREE COTTAGE</p>
How would I create a ToC like: Chapter I - AT MAYTREE COTTAGE
using the Convert Books ToC function?
I can already create the ToC just with: Chapter I
with the ToC function by just leaving its XPath Expressions as the default blank.
I am a newbie. I reverted to Kindle 1.17 and downloaded a book that I want to convert to PDF. I go to the preferences screen and select PDF as the output format, but it does not stick. When I run convert I get a MOBI output file.
Hey all! Trying to convert a KFX file to EPUB and get the error message "Used anchor page_i has multiple positions: 5503.221, 802.0." It won't convert, and I can't open to edit it until I convert it. Any ideas? I've never seen this one before.
I ran into a possible bug in the command line ebook-convert utility. I wonder if there's a workaround, or anything I can do to bypass this issue.
The issue is that Calibre appears to be altering the font-size of blockquotes in certain documents. It appears to be adding CSS font-size properties to classes defined by the inline CSS, which overrides the intended font-size of blockquotes in the document.
The enclosed "Test.html" has identical CSS to "Test2.html", defined in the <style> element in the head of each document. "Test.epub", derived from "Test.html", displays the blockquotes correctly. But "Test2.epub", derived from "Test2.html", is displaying them much larger than intended.
I appended .txt to the HTML filenames, because the forum would not allow them to be uploaded otherwise. I also included the double-verbose output of the ebook-convert command.
Is there a flag I can add to the ebook-convert command to stop Calibre from altering the stylesheet? Please let me know if you have any advice or suggestions.
I have tried searching for this, but I wasn't sure of how to phrase the search properly, so if I have missed the answer, my sincere apologies:
I'm migrating from Kindle to Kobo, and have many books in multiple formats - is it possible to select books for conversion by format? For example, select all epubs for conversion to kepub, and all mobis for conversion to AZW3? I've given my Paperwhite to my Dad and have found that it definitely prefers AZW3 to mobi, so I'd like to load my Kobo Clara with kepubs, load his 'new' Kindle with AZW3s then delete all the formats I no longer need
I've recently bought a Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation). I converted a lot of ePub books to AZW3 with Calibre. These converted books were sent to my Kindle directly by Calibre.
Well, they all work fine. The conversion was perfect, except for one little detail: the Page Flip mechanism doesn't work for them (not entirely, anyway).
When I open one of those books, the Page Flip only offers the first option (page by page); the second option (grid) is always grayed out.
For testing, I used one of my books bought from the Kindle Store. The original one supports both Page Flip modes. When I striped the DRM and send it back to my device, the Page Flip breaks. This also happens with other books originally created as an ePub.
I don't know if this is an issue with Kindle (maybe its something available only for purchased books, like the "About this book" feature), or if there is any option I could change on Calibre to get it to work.
By the way: I didn't change any of the default converting options.
I need to convert my Kindle library, (360 books), from azw3 to ePub as I am moving over to Kobo. A couple of years ago, (well, 22 Apr 2016), JSWolf recommended the KindleUnpack plugin for this type of format shift.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf
(Post 3304531)
There is a much much better way to do this. The way to do this is to install the KindleUnpack plugin and format shift from KF8 to ePub. Then load the ePub in the eBook Editor, validate it, fix any errors and you are good to go.
Is this still the best approach or will calibre's azw3 to ePub do just as good a job?
Hi!
I created a epub with an index with Writer2ePub in OpenOffice. It was fine except for the margins, so I tried to convert it with calibre. But it stripped out part of the text!!
How must I set the calibre's conversion settings to keep intact the text (including pagebreaks) and the index, and remove the margins?
I'm using a Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2. Both the epub and mobi work on my kobo, however the epub allows me to highlight text, and touch words to use the dictionary. On .mobi this isn't the case.
Here's an example of what happens when I convert a book (it removes all headings, bold text, etc). It's driving me nuts, cant figure out what to do:
When I open the PDF in sumatra I can highlight text, however when I click "Edit book" in caliber I see a bunch of images, so it looks like someone scanned this image page by page which explains its large size.
Any advice on how to best convert this for my kobo? It's not THAT bad on my Kobo reader using koreader, but it is a bit slow with page turning and refreshes every page.
Hi there. My problem is that calibre lose code block style on EPUB to HTML conversion phase. They put code blocks inside of paragraphs tags and it looks like the paragraph content like the following
I have a reflowable epub w about 100 color pics that display at about 1/3 screen size when i test the epub on various devices.
I just used Calibre to convert the epub to AZW3 and the Kindle Previewer is showing the images displaying in various devices at a tiny size on each page. Way too small. Not like the intended design. I can still dblclk on them and then they display at a nice full size per the intended enlarged views.
I've just received "Japan by Train" published by Japan Experience in ePub format. I can add it to my Calibre library, but trying to convert it to MOBI so I can add it to my Kindle library FAILS at 47%. Using the latest version of Calibre, get no error messages, just a conversion stuck at 47%. The file size is ~ 8.3mb. I've remove it from my library, downloaded it again, and get the same result. There's a .pdf version, and while conversion goes to completion, the result is quite unsatisfactory.
Any ideas?
Here's the last few lines of the conversion detail:
Parsing OEBPS/2Guide_99_184-12.xhtml ...
Reading TOC from NCX...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Hello all,
I'm new to this forum, and really need some help.
I'm a grad student, and my professor sent me a bunch of scans of textbooks. A few of them converted just fine from pdf to mobi format, but I'm trying to convert this one and it just refuses to work no matter what I do.
First it kept getting screwed up on the pictures (it would convert them in disconnected lines), so I extracted all the pages with text only and tried to convert these. However, it just won't convert ANYTHING now except the first page (i.e., the cover). What's going on??? How can I make Calibre convert all the text?
My e-mail provider refuses to send my downloaded news to my Kindle because the files are to large. I came up with this code (do not run if you have a tmp directory in your working directory):
Code:
ebook-convert big.mobi tmp.epub
unzip -d tmp tmp.epub
cd tmp
find . -type f \
-iregex '^.*[.]\(jpg\|jpeg\|png\|gif\)$' \
-exec mogrify -quality 85 -resize '500x500>' {} \;
zip -Duro ../tmp1.epub .
cd ..
rm -rf tmp
ebook-convert tmp.epub small.mobi
Isn't there a simpler way to tell calibre to convert the images to smaller sizes?
You can see the "k" is randomly bolded. it isn't in the code, just in the preview. It shows up in epub, and not mobi. If I change the "k's" to "j's", they are unbolded. Part of the title on the page is in bold, like every 3rd or 4th letter as well.
I just updated my Calibre to 3.34, and went to convert a book to kepub, only find that the option is not present at all? It was my default conversion format, now there's no "kepub" showing in the list of output formats
