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Old 07-11-2016, 06:24 PM   #1
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I have used Calibre to convert ebooks for many years.
I would now like Calibre to be my main ebook reader, ie to be able to click on an ebook and to go straight to the book.
However, at present the best I can get is that the book is added to the library and I press v to read it.
Is there any way to bypass the library and the v?
Many thanks.
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Old 07-11-2016, 06:31 PM   #2
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Do you mean you want the Calibre eBook viewer to launch any time you double click on a book file? If so set the Calibre viewer to be the default program for the file type.

Are you using Windows? If so right click on a book file and select Properties. Then click Opens With and Change then either select the Calibre viewer if it's listed or click more and browse to the viewer and select it as your default program.
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Do you mean you want the Calibre eBook viewer to launch any time you double click on a book file? If so set the Calibre viewer to be the default program for the file type.

Are you using Windows? If so right click on a book file and select Properties. Then click Opens With and Change then either select the Calibre viewer if it's listed or click more and browse to the viewer and select it as your default program.
- I'd forgotten (or never realised) Open With is available in Properties, pity there's no Edit With and Print With like there was in the old days. The Edit and Print verbs still work, but their presence is hidden away in the bowels of the Redmond elites (some say, dumbing down is a CIA plot).

@JosephWebber - for the record the viewer is XXX\Calibre2\ebook-viewer.exe, where XXX is the directory in which calibre is installed - normally C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (X86)

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- I'd forgotten (or never realised) Open With is available in Properties, pity there's no Edit With and Print With like there was in the old days. The Edit and Print verbs still work, but their presence is hidden away in the bowels of the Redmond elites (some say, dumbing down is a CIA plot).

@JosephWebber - for the record the viewer is XXX\Calibre2\ebook-viewer.exe, where XXX is the directory in which calibre is installed - normally C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (X86)

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the moved it in W10
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Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations
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the moved it in W10
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Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations
Yes, its in the Windows control panel, as it has been since I can't remember when.

However, on my and it seems AnemicOak's Windows 10, it's also in the General Tab of Properties. I wondered, seeing as I couldn't recall seeing it there before, if they added it there in Win 10 !

And for the record on my Windows 10 its also settable via the Open With shell context menu item, as it has been since...

Maybe they dumb Windows 10 down for you Valley Dwellers

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Yes, its in the Windows control panel, as it has been since I can't remember when.

However, on my and it seems AnemicOak's Windows 10, it's also in the General Tab of Properties. I wondered, seeing as I couldn't recall seeing it there before, if they added it there in Win 10 !

And for the record on my Windows 10 its also settable via the Open With shell context menu item, as it has been since...

Maybe they dumb Windows 10 down for you Valley Dwellers

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They rearranged (reassigned) some of the names of choices on W10 from where they HAD been since W3.1

W10 also presents a different view depending on how you come at it. (XP allowed the choice (grouping?) and stuck with it until changed)

And, Yes, they are dumbing down operation of a computer, just like they are doing over at Google with Cars.
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Old 07-12-2016, 12:15 PM   #7
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Many thanks all.
I had forgotten that the viewer program was separate!
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Old 07-12-2016, 07:22 PM   #8
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'They' are dumbing down everything, they being - the MSM for sure, they being - large corporations for sure, they being mainstream political parties - for sure, they being 'the deep state' - probably. Orwell's 1984 is their operations manual.

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