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partnerinflight · 04-19-2010, 02:55 PM

First, great job on Calibre. As a new owner of a Nook I found myself much relieved that there's such a convenient app around to manage my newly budding library.

One small irritant that I've noticed so far: I grabbed a few books off various places (pdfs, mostly), and then used Calibre's ISBN/metadata lookup functionality to fill out the book details. However when I import these books into my Nook the author names (and some of the title names) have the last character replaced with a garbage unicode character (usually a Chinese character)... I'm assuming this is a bug in Calibre's unicode processing? Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way I can fix it on my own?

One other small irritant: one of the books I loaded was in .doc format. I used Save-To-PDF from MSWord, then imported the PDF in Calibre. When read from the Nook however, the pagination is fairly messed up. Basically it seems that Word's soft page breaks have been replaced with hard breaks, so some pages show up on Nook half or quarter-filled. Is that an issue with Word's PDF conversion, or a Calibre import issue? Should I have not used PDF at all? (Maybe RTF instead?)

Finally one feature request. (or maybe this already exists...) Is there a way to merge several books into one? (Specifically I've downloaded a bunch of short stories... it'd be nice to make an anthology book...) Any idea how that might be done?

Thanks again!

04-19-2010, 02:55 PM	#1
partnerinflight Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Nook	Calibre newbie -- bugs, comments, and feature requests :) First, great job on Calibre. As a new owner of a Nook I found myself much relieved that there's such a convenient app around to manage my newly budding library. One small irritant that I've noticed so far: I grabbed a few books off various places (pdfs, mostly), and then used Calibre's ISBN/metadata lookup functionality to fill out the book details. However when I import these books into my Nook the author names (and some of the title names) have the last character replaced with a garbage unicode character (usually a Chinese character)... I'm assuming this is a bug in Calibre's unicode processing? Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way I can fix it on my own? One other small irritant: one of the books I loaded was in .doc format. I used Save-To-PDF from MSWord, then imported the PDF in Calibre. When read from the Nook however, the pagination is fairly messed up. Basically it seems that Word's soft page breaks have been replaced with hard breaks, so some pages show up on Nook half or quarter-filled. Is that an issue with Word's PDF conversion, or a Calibre import issue? Should I have not used PDF at all? (Maybe RTF instead?) Finally one feature request. (or maybe this already exists...) Is there a way to merge several books into one? (Specifically I've downloaded a bunch of short stories... it'd be nice to make an anthology book...) Any idea how that might be done? Thanks again!