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calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application.

calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application. Key features are:

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

See calibre homepage.

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Using Notepad++ find and replace with regular expression

I have a html menu file, which contains list of html pages, extracted by chm decoder. (7,0,"Icons Used in This Book","final/pref04.html"); (8,0,"Command Syntax Conventions","final/pref05.html"); (9,0,"Introduction","final/pref06.html"); (10,0,"Part…
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Problems with internal links/anchors in MOBI output from Kindlegen

I've got a nicely structured EPUB file, and trying to generate a mobi file using KindleGen... The EPUB is filled with footnotes/annotations, which are internal links/anchors. All is well formatted, good HTML ... but the Kindlegen-created MOBI file…
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batch convert and crop postscript to pdf

I know barely enough to survive in this digital world. I have many one-page postscript files (graphs/images) I wish to convert to pdf and automatically crop to a narrow box. I'm on windows right now (I do use linux too, so don't hesitate to post…
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How do I replace a certain amount of whitespace using regex?

I'm using Calibre to convert a PDF to MOBI, but it has trouble interpreting space-indented code blocks. The blocks contain a lot of spaces, but in a lot of different amounts. Some lines are even indented by 31 spaces. Calibre allows for 3 regexes to…
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How to solve "ebook-convert" is not installed?

I want to convert .md into PDFs, and I followed https://toolchain.gitbook.com/ebook.html: Download the Calibre application. After moving the calibre.app to your Applications folder create a symbolic link to the ebook-convert tool: $ sudo ln -s…
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Is there a way to filter feed articles by content in Calibre recipies?

I'm using Calibre to download feeds from various news sources and to send them to my kindle. I was wondering if it is possible to use a custom recipe to download only articles that have a "magic" keyword in their title or content. For the title is…
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Crop the white margins of text-based multi-page PDF document and convert it to image-based PDF document

I want convert an electronic book for Kindle. I tried to convert large, two languages text-based PDF ebook with complex formatting styles and images into AZW3 book for Kindle using Calibre, and also tried amazon service, but conversion results poor…
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OASIS VLSI layout files parser

OASIS is a format for VLSI topology representation. I need a parser for the OASIS format, or maybe some documentation which will describe how this format is structured. I can't find any mentions of it in Google. Is there an OASIS parser available…
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ebook-convert spits out python error? Can someone understand the error?

I want to run ebook-convert together with Gitbook to produce my own pdf-files from my static files. When I just type ebook-convert I get this silly error message… I installed a fresh version of python installed convert-ebook with NPM and Gitbook is…
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Calibre search & replace

I would like to replace with  . I'we try to replace ([aiowz]) with  $1 but in calibre it wouldn't work... it would put $1 into text. What should i put into replace field?
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Automatically create chapter breaks and titles from plain text file?

I have a big file that is separated into categories with an underscore beneath each category name. The file is constantly changing and there are 80 categories. It is a plain text file. I would like to make it so that each category name is a separate…
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Calibre web error FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'xdg-icon-resource' in Docker

Host os: Ubuntu 22.04 device Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant ML350p Gen8 When starting up calibre web it gives me this error: Setting up libedit2:amd64 (3.1-20210910-1build1) ... Setting up libsensors-config (1:3.6.0-7ubuntu1) ... Setting up…
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Why won't calibre read the metadata on a recreated .epub file?

I am writing a program that takes an .epub file, unzips it, edits the content.opt file to add custom metadata, then zip the contents to create a new .epub file. I am using calibre as both my e-reader and my .epub editor, since calibre makes it very…
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Unexpected end of data when zipping zip files in Python

Good day. I wrote a little Python program to help me easily create .cbc files for Calibre, which is just a renamed .zip file with a text file called comics.txt for TOC purposes. Each chapter is another zip file. The issue is that the last zip file…
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Sending ebooks from Linux Mint to Kindle Paperwhite via Calibre

I'm trying to send some ebooks from my Linux Mint desktio to my kindle paperwhite using Calibre and am getting the error: Starting job: Email Counter-Clock World to me@free.kindle.com Sending failed... Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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