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Kobo Plus Expanding

PeterT — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:49:16 GMT

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Big news!

Kobo Plus is officially launching in Czechia, Greece, Luxembourg, Philippines, Poland, and Romania. 🌍✨

Readers in these six markets can now enjoy unlimited access to a huge catalogue of eBooks and audiobooks � from timeless classics to today�s bestselling titles (and LOTS of indie authors, of course).

With flexible subscription options for reading, listening, or both, Kobo Plus makes discovering your next favourite book easier than ever.

CBZ to PDF convert : bad margin

poco06 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:26:06 GMT

Hello,
I used to convert CBZ to PDF with Calibre from years, but since some times, the margin in the PDF converted file are not well rendered. In addition, the result is not the same for each page : some have no margin, some have right margin only ...
I have checked that the images integrated into the CBZ file are well centered with good margin.
I tried also to modify some parameters (output file and common options) without any change in the margin result.
Is there something special to use as parameters?
Let me know
Regards
Pat

Kindle Scribe features possibly coming to Kindle apps

jhowell — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:16:25 GMT

As part of my ongoing work to reverse engineer Kindle e-book formats I regularly examine new Kindle firmware and app updates for interesting changes. Lately I have been seeing increasing code related to handwritten annotation and notebook features being added to the Kindle apps.

So far those features have been exclusive to Scribe devices. This may be a sign that Amazon intends to expand those capabilities to apps, many of which run on devices with pen support.

Firmware 4.38.23697

JSWolf — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:14:00 GMT

Firmware 4.38.23697 has been released.

Where to start with Charles Dickens?

Loosheesh — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:02:04 GMT

I got an audiobook collection of Charles Dickens's major works, and I'd like recommendations on what you think is the best book to start with and (without spoilers) why:

Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dombey and Son
Bleak House
Little Dorrit
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Our Mutual Friend

I removed A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield from the list; the former I've read more than once, and the latter I attempted to read, got a quarter way through and gave up. Let's leave it for (way) later :p

(This is the audiobook collection, in case anyone is interested: The Charles Dickens Collection: 10 Novels & A Christmas Carol)

fails EpubCheck

philja — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:12:37 GMT

I just had a failure on EpubCheck (5.3.0) due to some underlined text marked up with the tags in an epub2 file.

Code:

Col: 38: ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file: element "u" not allowed anywhere; expected the element end-tag, text or element "a", "abbr", "acronym", "applet", "b", "bdo", "big", "br", "cite", "code", "del", "dfn", "em", "i", "iframe", "img", "ins", "kbd", "map", "noscript", "ns:svg", "object", "q", "samp", "script", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "tt" or "var" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")

Epub3 passes same check ok.

Sigil still inserts these tags as formatting for underlining: in Format > Underline.

Has there been a change in epub spec?

Should Sigil add a warning not to use in epub2 files?

Books sorting on First Name

Zebedi — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:00:07 GMT

I have found a strange glitch.

I have half a dozen authors with first name of Ben. These all sort by first name instead of last name. It only applies to Ben, no other 3 letter first names.

I have got round this by putting an extra n on the end - Benn.

But I am curious as to what�s different about this name.

Send book to XTEINK doesn't follow template

DAC — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:52:24 GMT

Hi
I'm having a problem with the "Send Books to Device" template.

I am trying to send books to my new XTEINK V4 in structured folders ("SciFi", "Fiction", "Parenting", "Tech", etc). I have managed to define a new column called "folder_tag" with the folder names as drop downs.

At the moment I have the following defined under the "Send to Device"

Books/{#folder_tag}/{authors} - {title}

But when I connect via Wifi and send books, it's not using this template but send the books into the "Books" directory, named "{title} - {authors} {id}"

I can't see where this template is. I've deleted all the other entries in gui.py.jaso and only have the following:

"save_to_disk_template_history": [
"Books/{#folder}/{authors} - {title}"
]

I've also tried to add this under the configuration for the specific device, but it reverts to everything in the Books directory.

What ever I try, I can't get it to use my direcory structure - books just go into the Books folder with the ID added to the end.

HELP! Where do I need to define where to send the books to different directories?

Thanks

David - have various kindles and an XTEINK V4

DAC — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:37:39 GMT

Hello
Time to stop lurking!
Hi, i've been a fan of ebooks for many years. I still have my original Kindle Keyboard (although thanks to Amazon, is now obsolete!) my main ereader is a PW11, but have just got an XTEINK v4 and love the small form factor.
I'm also a massive fan of Calibre and use it to store my library and move between devices.

The most comfortable reading setup I've ever had cost me nothing extra � it was alrea

LordOfCrypt — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:10:18 GMT

The most comfortable reading setup I've ever had cost me nothing extra — it was already in my bedroom. It's the TV. I know.
I still read on my phone on the commute, and a tablet is fine on the couch. But late at night, horizontal, lights off — nothing I've tried comes close to a big screen across the room and a remote control that fits under the blanket.
No device to hold up. No bright panel six inches from your face. Font size that doesn't feel like cheating. You just... read.
The real problem — at least in my experience — isn't the idea, it's the software. Reading apps on Android TV are a mess. They install, they technically work, but you can tell immediately that nobody thought about D-pad navigation when they built them. It's all touchscreen logic wearing a TV costume.
I've been patching things together for about a year. Maybe I've been looking in the wrong places — curious whether anyone here has gone down the same road, found something that actually works, or has strong opinions about why this is a terrible idea.

Using regex to fix broken paragraph in Chinese

icearch — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:46:16 GMT

I have some thought, I need someone familiar with regex and text to see if this is doable.

The logic here is simple: I am not going to be 100% correct, just to get rid of annoying breaks.

Since chinses do not have space to identify words, and no capital to identify beginning of sentence, that leads me to think the other way round: What can be used to identify the ending of a sentence?

That be: punctuations!

So, I will regex search a punctuation and a line break right next to each other, that will be 99% the ending of a paragraph!

And the rest is easy.

So this is what I come up with to find the ending:

([\.．。\?？\!！>》\)）\]】}…:：—'"’”\|」』@])\n

and replace it with:

\1@@@\n

and replace:

@@@ to \n

Of course, you need to prepare the text first by removing excess space and empty lines.

So what do you guys think? Is there anything to improve?

Conversion without jacket

Terisa de morgan — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:49:33 GMT

Hello,

I would like to know if it's possible to convert a book without including jacket (as an exception, not removing the jacket file every time).

Other Fiction St. John, Percy B.: The Snow Ship.PDF V 1.0 27.05.2026

hornhj — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:38:48 GMT

Percy Bolingbroke St. John. 1821-1889. (1819 is birth date according to Allibone.) Percy was a son of James Augustus St. John, and a brother of Bayle and Horace. His earliest work seems to have been �Young Naturalists Book of Birds� in 1844. After �The Trapper�s Bride� came out in 1845 he was reviewed in Hood�s Magazine and Comic Miscellany. This was edited by Thomas Hood, author of �Song Of A Shirt,� his son and namesake would become editor of Fun. Hood was dead by the time Percy began writing tales for the magazine in 1846. His first works for Hood�s were short stories, �Caleb Von Dustenberg,� �The Inheritance,� �The Two Travellers� and �The Usurer.� Then he began a short western serial, �White Cloud,� taking place amongst the Seminoles in Florida.

Pseudonym For: Austin, Howard; Brady, Old King, the world-known detective; Clyde, Kit; Doughty, Francis Worcester, -1917; Fenton, Ralph, Colonel; Fox, Tom; Maynard, Robert, Capt.; Raymond, P. T.; Sherman, John
https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/200...1821-1889.html

here as PDF:
>The Snow Ship.<

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Other Fiction St. John, Percy B.: The Snow Ship. V 1.0 27.05.2026

hornhj — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:36:24 GMT

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Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 262, v1, 27 May 2026

Pulpmeister — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:06:40 GMT

22 short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, ranging from romance to strange to humour, collected from newspapers, magazines, and other sources.

1: A Tale of the Coral Sea / Randolph Bedford
2: Outside the Door / E. F. Benson
3: The Islington Mystery / Arthur Machen
4: A Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant
5: The Yellow Moth / Fred Merrick White
6: The Hypnotized Township / Henry Lawson
7: Get That Man / Louis Arthur Cunningham
8: The Master Microbe / Ethel Lina White
9: An Episode / Boyd Cable
10: The Dance on the Hill / Achmed Abdullah
11: Clan / E. F. Benson
12: The Cave of the Invisible / James Francis Dwyer
13: For Valor! / Richard Dehan
14: The Missing Mortgagee / R. Austin Freeman
15: Flowers for Miss Riordan / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
16: The Curate of Poltons / Anthony Hope
17: The Governess at Greenbush / E. W. Hornung
16: The Case of the Vacant Office / Scott Campbell
19: One Chance in a Million / H. D. Umbstaetter
20: Hunting-Cap / Katharine Tynan
21: The Guinea Pig's Tail / William Le Queux
22: Lieutenant Lapenoti�re/ Arthur Quiller-Couch

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