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Calibre is an open-source application for e-book conversion and library management

Calibre is an open-source e-book library management application with the following features:

  • Library Management
  • E-book conversion
  • Syncing to e-book reader devices
  • Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
  • Comprehensive e-book viewer
  • Content server for online access to your book collection

Calibre requires Python 2.7 and many libraries.

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How can I highlight text in Calibre?

according to a 4 year-old forum entry at Calibre, they started working on the feature of being able to highlight text, 4 years ago. Does anyone know how if it is implemented yet and how to use it?
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How to prevent a Qt/GTK app (Calibre) from using colors defined in .Xresources?

I have colors defined in .Xresources. They look lovely on urxvt, and utterly ghastly on Calibre. Calibre does not appear to have any way to disable or override those colors, so is there any way I can invoke Calibre that would ignore my color scheme?
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firejail: child-process not sandboxed?

As far as the sandbox "firejail" is concerned I´ve encountered a phenomenon which isn´t completely clear to me. My understanding has always been that whenever I start a programm/process in firejail that process is sandboxed. Fine, that´s clear. I…
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How to convert this chm file to pdf?

I want to convert a chm file to a pdf file. Calibre's command ebook-convert ebook-convert 1.chm 1.pdf only converts the first 7 pages of the chm file into a pdf file, while the chm file has much more pages. How can I convert the whole chm file into…
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Using calibre from the command line

Using calibre from the command line, in debian testing, how can I insert a tag with the syntax being ebook-meta ebook_file --tags rhubarb but for a range of files, but all by the same author so just need the tag of his/her name? This is used…
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Convert EPUB to TXT and preserve original formatting

I have a programming book in EPUB format and I'm trying to convert it to TXT. For that I'm using the utility ebook-convert from calibre. The problem is that the standard usage: ebook-convert book.epub book.txt removes indentation in source code…
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How to convert PDF to e pub in a fixed layout in Calibre

I am trying to use Calibre to convert a PDF file to Epub format with a fixed layout, but I am not able to convert it. Can somebody tell me the steps to convert in a fixed layout in Calibre?
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How to change programs used to handle files in Calibre in Debian

I have recently installed Calibre, and it works great, however I have some problems with handling of files by this program: Folders open in baobab. To open folder I just need to click on a book and then select: Path: Click to open. CBR files…
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Calibre in Debian 7.3 KDE doesn't have cover browser?

Can someone please help me to activate the cover browser of Calibre in Debian 7.3 KDE desktop (32 bit architecture)? I've tried toggling the arrow button in the bottom-right corner but unlike the other buttons, it yields nothing, not even a tool-tip…
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calibre does not start - Python error _Py_FatalErrorFunc

Background Debian testing (bullseye) kernel 5.9.0, KDE, calibre 5.5.0 Symptoms Calibre does not start, not even its GUI appears. Console shows a Python-related error message about _Py_FatalErrorFunc.
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How to cat the first page of an epub file?

epubcat book.epub 1 3 # outputs plain text of pages 1 through 3 I don’t know if epubs have the concept of “pages.” If not, perhaps we can say each 400 chars are a page? A general solution that works for other ebook formats is better (mobi, azw3,…
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Mass folder name correction - Calibre

I allowed Calibre access to my Library and it decided to change all my folder names adding (123) after every folder. (Replace 123 with random numbers.) What would be best command to use on Linux (Debian) terminal to remove all " (???)" strings from…
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ebook-convert for all .epub files in the folder

This code converts epub file to txt file: ebook-convert "book.epub" "book.txt" How can I use it to convert all .epub files in the directory? I am using Ubuntu. Code from os import listdir, rename from os.path import isfile, join import…
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generate html table of content from multiple html files

This is not specifically a Linux question. But I was wondering if I can get this done in BASH. I have multiple HTML files in a folder and I want to generate a HTML table of content. So for file1.html and file2.html, I want to generate a file like…
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calibre opds error 403 on the epub file

I'm trying to use calibre2opds to put my library on my server (fedora21). Everything works fine, I can navigate, until I want to download an epub. I get en error 403: You don't have permission to access /Anonyme/Le Livre Sans Nom (41)/Le Livre Sans…
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