I've been experimenting with three ways of sending files to my kindle:
1. Creating an epub file, renaming it (not converting) as a text file, and emailing to kindle
2. Creating an epub file, converting to mobi in Calibre, emailing to kindle
3. Creating a mobi file in Calibre, emailing to kindle.
All options produce slightly different formats of the publication. If anything the text file looks best on a Kindle. Could anyone shine some light on whats going on, and which would produce better formatted publications?
Hopefully somebody knows the answer to solving my problem converting fixed layout PDFs that apparently have to display as a spread in ePub and AZW3:
We have created a series of children's picture books using Affinity Publisher, outputted them as flattened PDFs (because that's the only way to reliably preserve the layouts. That works perfectly.
The problem comes when I try to convert using the current version of Calibre to create ePUB and AZW3 files:
The biggest challenge is that the drawings are designed for a spread (i.e. the two facing pages) so I have to ensure that the two facing pages display jointly in the ebook reader (Kindle, Apple, etc).
If I generate single pages, what I get in the reader is apparently unpredictable i.e. some show one page, some show both pages, some don't match the facing pages! But if I generate spreads (i.e. the two facing pages outputted as a single page), then the ebook readers can display two of these spreads at a time or some other unsatisfactory result.
There must be a good solution as many other people have successfully published kids's picturebooks but I sure can't figured how to make this work to get output that will reliably display in readers like Kindle, Apple, etc.
FYI - just to be clear, with Affinity Publisher the only good option would seem to be to output to PDF, so that's pretty much got to be my starting point for the ePub and Kindle output.
Any help or advice will be hugely appreciated as I have spent (wasted?) hours trying to make this work reliably ... Thanks!
Currently if I add books through the GUI, they convert to my preferred format. However, if someone uploads a book through the Web UI it does not appear to auto convert. Is this expect behaviour?
I've been using Calibre for years with two plugins that allow me to remove the DRM from a downloaded .awz3 eBook as it loads into Calibre. I then side load into a Kindle Paperwhite using Calibre. Works great and thanks for Calibre!
Sometimes the cover doesn't appear correct when it comes into Calibre. I then choose to edit that eBook's Metadata individually and select "download cover". I get 2-3 covers and choose one, then click OK, OK and go back to Calibre. To get the cover to "install" I click on "Polish books". Once that completes, I side load the eBook to my Kindle PW and it shows the new cover.
For the first time, this isn't working. I start out with an untouched eBook in .awz3 format, and follow this procedure. But when I open my Kindle PW, the new eBook flashes the right cover for a second and then changes to no cover at all. I've tried different new covers, but none will stick.
Any suggestions on what I may want to try next. I've never had this happen before, starting out with an .awz3 eBook. Thanks for any replies!
Hello, I have an epub file which I want to convert to docx. The footnotes are hyperlinks in the epub file. Is there a way to convert the file with properly converted footnotes for MS Word?
I downloaded an HTMLZ book from Amazon onto Kindle for PC 1.16.0, and it looks fine on the Kindle application. However, when moving it into Calibre, so I can transfer it to my Kindle, all of the Greek text is corrupted. In fact, if I copy and paste from the text in the Kindle app, the result is the corrupted Greek in English letters, like this: `u-roKEZoOar'
Is there any way to move this file from the Kindle for PC app to Calibre, or to a Kindle other than through Amazon?
I have a pdf which, when trying to convert, only results in an epub full of the pictures of pages, although it has a perfectly good ToC. The debug files contain only lists of png files and the ToC, not a hint of html. Conversion only takes 2 minutes. Heuristic process on/off makes no difference. When I try converting with the "no pictures" option checked, all I get is the, again perfectly good, document outline, and no pages at all.. This conversion only takes 1 second.
The thing is, the pdf has an excellent text layer. I can copy/paste it, and when I run it through pdftotext, I get an excellent text file. It's as though Calibre is not even attempting to extract the text.
Can I have somehow made a setting that turns off the text extraction?
I have just converted from an older 32 bit version to a 64 bit Windows version of Calibre. I use Calibre to convert html files to pdf format.
The input html has links to images such as the following:
<p><img src="https://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/genbob/1861_Harrison-Union_Elkhart_IN_Nash-Geil.jpg"><BR>1861 map of Rohrer lots</p>
The older version creates a pdf file and the images are visible, as expected.
The 64 bit version creates a pdf file with a small icon in the place of each image and the CalibreLog.tex file has many lines with the following message:
Blocking URL request with scheme: https
Looking for a way to complete the conversion of a MOBI into EPUB. I'm getting this error
"IOError: broken data stream when reading image file"
I have attached the whole log, as copied from the details in the error message.
Is there a Calibre conversion setting I can use to ignore images?
Is there a MOBI file editor app I can use to get rid of the broken data stream in the image? (I can't use Calibre's editor because the file has to be in EPUB format.)
I searched for the answer to this but couldn't find anything definitive. Please excuse me if it has already been answered.
Quick question. I have all the books in my calibre library in EPUB format. My son-in-law has a kindle and he asked me about a book in my library that he wants to read.
If he logs into the calibre server, and selects the book, he will only see that the epub format exists.
Is there any way that when he clicks on download, he can ask that a conversion be made from the EPUB format to MOBI before he downloads the book on his kindle? Can calibre be set up to do this automatically?
I have got Calibre installed on my laptop and use it successfully for reading Ebooks.
I found instructions online for using Calibre to convert files, which is something I need to do right now.
I would like to use Calibre to convert a MS Word File into an
Epub but the instructions that I find online do not work for me.
Instructions:
Open the original document and set the title and chapter headings to Header 1
Save your document as .html by going to the Save as option and
selecting either .html or Web page, filtered from the Save as type
drop down menu.
Open Calibre
Select Add books and open the .html file you have just saved
Select Edit Metadata and enter the title and author into boxes on
left side of the screen then select the arrows to the right of these
boxes which will show details as they will appear on the library
catalogue (i.e. surname first). If you want to add your own cover do
so here by selecting Browse in the change cover section. Locate your
cover from your computer files and select open. Select OK and exit
back to main screen
Select Convert books and select ePub as output method. There are
several more options here that you can play around with including
Look and Feel and Table of Contents if you want to do any more in
depth formatting.
Select OK and Calibre will begin converting (you will see a spinning
dial in the bottom right hand corner and 1 next to the word Jobs)
I can get up to number 5 on this list of instructions but no further because
I get the message "no supported source format was found"
I would be grateful for any help anyone can offer.
Hi everyone I'm new to Calibre. After some experimenting and reading I've managed to convert most of my Kindle e-books to PDF, but there is one book that I've had trouble with.
Harry Potter A History of Magic, which I've uploaded here
Basically this book has text, but it's designed in a way that the text should be treated as part of a picture, and thus every page in this book is an image. I tried viewing it in Calibre viewer but also no luck because it's trying to analyze the words as actual text. An example
So my question is how should I setup the conversion so that Calibre treats every one of the 393 pages as an image per page, and outputs a 393-page PDF? Thanks for your help.
I have a folder filled with 4chan threads, each thread can contain any number of comments. I want to create readable files for my Kindle, with multiple threads per book, with each thread clearly defined for the person reading it, each comment showing details that are present in the .xml file, such as 'date of post', the post number, the comment text, etc.
I want to be able to combine multiple threads from a single folder, so I can decide what threads Id like to combine into a single ebook file.
My understanding is that the best way to do this would probably be to somehow represent the .xml data in an .html file which I can easily convert to .epub or .mobi format. My problem is I dont know how to convert the .xml data into something readable and tidy in an .html file and I dont know how Id do this en masse for many .xml files at once, combining some of them.
Moderator Notice Please read Guidelines #9 re image sizes. Use the paper clip icon in the Advanced mode top tool bar to add, use it again to select
Two .xml files on the left, and the outcome that I want on the right.
showing basically the outcome I want, the formatting doesnt have to be exact, I just want it tidy and readable, in a format that I can change the font size, etc on my Kindle as you would with any other ebook file.
I have this problem, when i put my (perfectly named files) in calibre, calibre change the name whith the metadata, always wrong on.
How can i do to juste have my blablabla.pdf convert in blablabla.AZW3 and not in randomautor.azw3 ?
When converting an .rtf file to MOBI (for use on a Kindle Paperwhite), the Calibre program creates bullets that look okay within the MOBI viewer inside Calibre, but when I transfer the MOBI file to the Kindle, there is a line break immediately after every bullet.
The formatting in the .rtf file is as simple as simple can be: I'm using MSWord 2010 and using just the standard bulleted list, nothing weird. (This is happening to me in all of my documents with bullets.)
I usually purchase books from Books A Million, but every now and then, I'll purchase books from Amazon, usually because I can't find it elsewhere. I've purchased a few books in the past from Amazon and had no issue getting them converted to EPUB so that they would work on my Sony PRS-T1, but I have one right now, Seveneves, that I haven't been able to get to convert right.
When viewed using the Calibre reader, all three formats (AZW3, EPUB and PDF) look fine. But when uploaded to my reader, the EPUB stops at page 4 (which seems to be the end of the Table of Contents) and won't advance further. If I use the 'Navigate Page' feature and navigate to page 5, I get a blank page that has 'Page 2-13 of 712' at the bottom. Going straight to pages 6-13 give the exact same blank page, but navigating to page 14 brings me to the page that should be right after the TOC. The PDF seemed ok at first, but I fairly quickly found some gaps that I determined were quite a bit of missing text buy comparing it with the same copy in the Calibre reader.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why this particular book seems to be giving me trouble, and maybe a way to get it to convert properly?
When converting a book from epub to kepub calibre deletes
almost all CSS instructions that define the typographic aspect of
the inline table of contents.
This question has probably been ask many times before, but my searches have not unearthed an answer.
Calibre offers an option to convert files into Office Open XML ISO/IEC 29500 (ie. Word docx) file format.
Will Calibre ever offer an option to convert files into OpenDocument ISO/IEC 26300 (ie. Writer odt) file format?
