How to get html books out of calibre?

abrogard · 05-07-2021, 07:12 AM

I think I've got lots of html 'books' in my recently made library.

I just looked at a couple and they were missing their images.

And I imagine lots more will simply be html single pages and an html page can be any length... even without images I wonder how calibre could cope with that?

So I thought I'd take the easy path and remove them all and I'll keep them somewhere else in a dir of their own.

But how do I find them all and export them all from my library?

theducks · 05-07-2021, 09:34 AM

Calibre does not usually store HTML DIRECTLY. It usually puts them in an Archive (RAR) because they usually have ancillary files that need to be kept together. Like covers and other immigrates.

Searches

formats:HTM

formats:RAR

formats:ZIP

I suspect the HTM format save is when there are no embedded files needed (as detected)

abrogard · 05-07-2021, 05:51 PM

Yep, thanks for that. I took a quick look using those searches and got a few hits and when I looked at them I didn't get much readable output. One was labelled 'youtube' for 'author' and I didn't see any video or intelligible script, that was a 'zip' another was a rar and seemed to come from MS Flight simulator and be something to do with some kind of plane and lastly three htm's. One opened good, from Spectator mag, one didn't open at all and one opened with what looked like a clear text version of the page, pretty unusable.
So the point is, I guess, that one wants to think copies in any reservoir, including calibre, are good intelligible copies so for safety's sake it looks like I should take out all htm's.
And your searches would be the way to go about it I guess.
So thanks for that.

05-07-2021, 07:12 AM	#1
abrogard Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2017 Device: kindle	How to get html books out of calibre? I think I've got lots of html 'books' in my recently made library. I just looked at a couple and they were missing their images. And I imagine lots more will simply be html single pages and an html page can be any length... even without images I wonder how calibre could cope with that? So I thought I'd take the easy path and remove them all and I'll keep them somewhere else in a dir of their own. But how do I find them all and export them all from my library?

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05-07-2021, 09:34 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,054 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Calibre does not usually store HTML DIRECTLY. It usually puts them in an Archive (RAR) because they usually have ancillary files that need to be kept together. Like covers and other immigrates. Searches formats:HTM formats:RAR formats:ZIP I suspect the HTM format save is when there are no embedded files needed (as detected)

05-07-2021, 05:51 PM	#3
abrogard Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2017 Device: kindle	Yep, thanks for that. I took a quick look using those searches and got a few hits and when I looked at them I didn't get much readable output. One was labelled 'youtube' for 'author' and I didn't see any video or intelligible script, that was a 'zip' another was a rar and seemed to come from MS Flight simulator and be something to do with some kind of plane and lastly three htm's. One opened good, from Spectator mag, one didn't open at all and one opened with what looked like a clear text version of the page, pretty unusable. So the point is, I guess, that one wants to think copies in any reservoir, including calibre, are good intelligible copies so for safety's sake it looks like I should take out all htm's. And your searches would be the way to go about it I guess. So thanks for that.

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