How to Stop Calibre from Automatically Changing OPF metadata
I have noticed that Calibre changes the description metadata read from the OPF entry in an epub file. It will convert from plain text to HTML, and even add attributes to existing HTML. It will also...
View ArticleI know this is a long shot, but.....
I was going through some old backup discs from the turn of the century and up. Lo and behold, I discovered about 20 books I'd given up on finding. They're in DRM .lit and DRM .pdb, from the days that I...
View ArticleDownloading books purchased from Kobo
I just bought a book from Kobo, and can't figure out how to get it into Calibre. Could someone point me to directions on how to do that? Thanks.
View Articlehtml to zip problem
when converting single page, no problem at all but when converting table of content page or index page, the other pages will just have text without images and formating May be a bug in html to zip...
View ArticleDOCX to epub no pictures
Hi - I discovered the qualities of the docx to epub conversion. It is quite good but I must be doing something wrong, the pictures are "lost in translation"... Please help Thanks
View ArticleAdding comments to embed metadata
Is there any way to add comments to the embed metadata function?
View ArticleEpub (or other) to HTMLZ attributes renamed
I use the htmlz format because it places all the html into a single file. That is awesome. However, a lot of the attributes get renamed in the process, and I can't find a way to preserve the original...
View Articleconverstion from epub to mobi
hi there i have a problem while converting the epub to mobi, im getting few words or a small paragraph on a single page on the mobi version the thing is that the epub is fine but while converting it to...
View ArticleDOCX to Epub problems with symbols
Hello everyone, I am Alexander from Germany. I want to publish a book of mine as an Ebook for free, therefore I need to convert it from DOCX to EPUB format (or any other). After I've opened the Word...
View ArticleNeed help converting pdf to mobi/epub
I'm trying to convert a pdf to mobi. having some problems with tab spacing? none of the tab spaces i have used are coming out in the final file. so the tab indent used for the beginning of speech for...
View ArticleWindows partition running out of space during add
Recently my copy of calibre has effectively been unable to complete the add process claiming that no space was left on device. I tried to update the temp library environment variable and thus totally...
View Articleepub fonts embedding
Many epubs do not have their fonts embedded, which means that the original publisher font will not be displayed by an erader unless the font is installed in the device. I was wondering: is it possible...
View Articleazw3 to epup issues
Having mislaid my kindle (OK, I put it somewhere safe which is always a mistake) I decided to convert the azw3 file to epub and read it on my nook. The automatic conversion managed to add a page break...
View Articlemobi book into calibre possible conversion error?
Hi there i have an original book in mobi format and when i add it to calibre anywhere there is an apostophe it is replaced with an 'a with a carat symbol above it followed by tm' this can be viewed in...
View ArticleFuzzy, faint images
I have converted a Nook book to an epub to display on my Kindle PW2 using duokan. The book contained many images of symbols (b/w line drawings). All the images on the Nook app on my android tablet look...
View ArticleProblem with conversion
Hello everybody, I am facing problem trying to convert pdf to txtz. I have few gb of pdf file to convert to txt in order to regexp from emacs. So I am implementing a shell script to do that. Problem is...
View ArticleGenerated TOC Indent too big
Hi Is there anyway I can modify the genereated TOC indent? I use h1,h2,h3 and docx to mobi conversion, everything else is perfect. I just need 3 character but at the moment h2 indent is 10 and h3 is...
View ArticleODT to MOBI conversion produces unwanted numbering
I can't figure out why my attempts to convert and ODT file to MOBI keeps producing numbered paragraphs for the first few pages. They include headings, Any ideas?
View Articleebook-convert doesn't add converted version to library?
I decided to write a quick bash script to convert my ebook formats into epub which Marvin can read (bloody wife is using the Android so I can't use moonreader). When I converted a few files, they...
View Articleconversion from docx to epub seems to break my paragraphs
Hi, I have been using ebook-convert to go from a docx file to an epub file. Analyzing the resulting xhtml in the epub I see that paragraphs are split into <p></p> lines (see below an...
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