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calibre is free and open source e-book computer software that organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats.

Calibre is an ebook viewer/tool with many features, including a catalogue/library, an editor, the ability to convert between formats, and much more.

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How do I convert epub to mobi using calibre?

How do I convert epub to mobi using Calibre for this?
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Calibre No Longer Working

Calibre stopped working recently. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. When I open a terminal and call $calibre I get the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 20, in …
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How do I get a dark theme/night mode in Calibre Ebook Viewer?

Most Ebook readers come with a standard easy Night Mode switch. I'm trying to figure this out in Calibre. So far, I've been able to change the app theme to use my dark System theme by creating $ sudo nano /etc/profile.d/calibre.sh export…
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Does Calibre support Full Text Indexing / Search?

Calibre has tons of plugins, but what I really miss is full text search for all my books (mainly pdf and DJVU). Is this implemented, is there a plugin available? I can only find feature requests that are years old and unfixed launchpad bugs. If full…
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How can I export books from Ubuntu to Amazon Kindle?

I have tried the Amazon Kindle HD 7", but could not integrate it at all with my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OS. I have tried the USB cable but it didn't show up on the screen and I have tried to connect it via Bluetooth, but it also didn't work. I have Calibre…
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Calibre can not send book to Kindle

I don't know why but Calibre stopped sending working with my Kindle on Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits. Till a few time ago everything was working just fine, but now whenever I connect my Kindle and try to send some book on the main meory of the device I get…
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How to convert cbr to pdf?

I have a comic strip book in cbr (Calibre?) format. How can I convert it to pdf in my Ubuntu 12.04? I tried to install calibre hoping that it is able to do so. But it seems to be buggy and does not show up. Appreciate your hints to do the…
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ebook viewer - Qt WebEngine Render process has crashed (ubuntu 22.04)

Just upgraded to 22.04 and the ebook viewer is unable to open .mobi file with ebook viewer error message: calibre, version 5.41.0 ERROR: Render process crashed: The Qt WebEngine Render process has crashed. You should try restarting the viewer. I've…
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Package other than calibre for converting an RSS feed's entries to an ebook

Is there a package in the repositories (other than Calibre) that could be used to take an RSS feed and convert the entries into an ebook for reading? Calibre seems a bit too bulky to use to simply grab a single feed and spit out the entries as…
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Add notes to books in Calibre

Does anyone know of a plugin that lets you add notes to books in Calibre? I read quite a lot of books (actual books) and I'm quite used to add little side notes on small sticky notes. Since some books aren't shipped to my location I decided to buy…
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How to install Calibre on Ubuntu 12.04

Im trying to install Calibre e-book manager on my computer, i'm a newbie to linux and i dont know where the "installation directory" is....Here are the commands that they have in order to install it... sudo python -c "import sys; py3 =…
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Calibre error: 'QWebEngineProfile' object has no attribute 'setUrlRequestInterceptor', how do fix it? Ubuntu 20.04

calibre, version 4.99.4 (linux, embedded-python: False) Conversion error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (Unity in Action, Third Edition) Convert book 1 of 1 (Unity in Action, Third Edition) Conversion options changed from defaults: …
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Where is the man or manpage for a flatpak application?

How would I read the man page for calibre when it's installed from flatpak as below? nicholas@gondor:~$ nicholas@gondor:~$ flatpak info com.calibre_ebook.calibre calibre - The one stop solution to all your e-book needs ID:…
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When is the latest Calibre 3 going to be available in Ubuntu 16.04 in Software Center?

The current version which is 2.55.0 is not working for me and does not support my Pocketbook Inkpad 3 ebook reader and other ways of installation are too complicated for me.
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Making calibre work with Aquaris M10 phablet?

Sending books from calibre to the M10 phablet connected to a laptop through an USB cable does not work out of the box. On the laptop, start calibre Plug the tablet to the laptop using a USB cable The M10 shows up in the file manager Calibre detects…
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