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morlaine · 01-20-2019, 11:31 AM

I've been looking for a book reader that can handle all or almost all the book formats that I have including epub, doc, docx, pdf, DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files. From the documentation I've read, Calibre is supposed to be able to handle these files. Calibre works fine with epub, doc, docx, pdf files but not with the others.

First, I tried opening the DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files and Calibre said the format was not supported and then took me to an online description of the files. Then I tried converting them to epub which is my format of choice. And in some cases, it acted like it converted them, however, it only converted the first page, nothing else.

Am I expecting too much from Calibre? Are there plugins that I need to add for it to read and/or convert these files? Currently, I only have the DRM Removal plugin, nothing else.

Thank you for your help.

01-20-2019, 11:31 AM	#1
morlaine Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle for PC	Questions about Calibre not reading/converting DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files I've been looking for a book reader that can handle all or almost all the book formats that I have including epub, doc, docx, pdf, DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files. From the documentation I've read, Calibre is supposed to be able to handle these files. Calibre works fine with epub, doc, docx, pdf files but not with the others. First, I tried opening the DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files and Calibre said the format was not supported and then took me to an online description of the files. Then I tried converting them to epub which is my format of choice. And in some cases, it acted like it converted them, however, it only converted the first page, nothing else. Am I expecting too much from Calibre? Are there plugins that I need to add for it to read and/or convert these files? Currently, I only have the DRM Removal plugin, nothing else. Thank you for your help.