Frequently Asked Questions

[kiklop74]

That is a known feature of epub format on sony reader. Sony reader uses different fonts for displaying epub files than LRF files. You need to set epub files to use LRF fonts.

To do that in news recipe add this line to it:

    extra_css = '@font-face @font-face {font-family: "serif1";src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf)} body{font-family: serif1, serif} .article_description{font-family: serif1, serif} p{font-family: serif1, serif}'

[t0mat0]

Hmm..i am new. Where can i get a dictionary?

[pubolab]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

That is a known feature of epub format on sony reader. Sony reader uses different fonts for displaying epub files than LRF files. You need to set epub files to use LRF fonts.

To do that in news recipe add this line to it:

    extra_css = '@font-face @font-face {font-family: "serif1";src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf)} body{font-family: serif1, serif} .article_description{font-family: serif1, serif} p{font-family: serif1, serif}'

There are some difference now. The main menu page still remains '?', while the section menu page have garbage characters. Jumping to the article page will reboot the device.

Looks like calibre did not do GB2312 to UTF8 conversion.

Is there a complete reference manual of the recipe syntax and commands?

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by pubolab

Looks like calibre did not do GB2312 to UTF8 conversion.

Calibre does not detect always correctly the native encoding. It is better to supply it manually. Use encoding parameter in your recipe for this.

encoding = 'gb2312'

See here the list of valid encoding names in python
http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html

Originally Posted by pubolab

Is there a complete reference manual of the recipe syntax and commands?

Of course look here http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/news.html

[pubolab]

After I run the feed2disk, which commands do I need to run for mobi book?

I tried oeb2mombi I gives this exception:

"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "writer.py", line 634, in <module>
File "writer.py", line 630, in main
File "writer.py", line 601, in oeb2mobi
File "calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.pyo", line 1067, in __init__
File "calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.pyo", line 1535, in _all_from_opf
File "calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.pyo", line 1268, in _spine_from_opf
calibre.ebooks.oeb.base.OEBError: Spine is empty
"

html2epub worked fine for the same html tree.

Another problem is: the epub seems does not contain the pictures.

This seems due to the fact that I ran the feed2disk with -o option.

That caused the image URL to be created wrongly:

The correct one should be:
file:///C:/ebook/zaobao/feed_12/article_0/images/img1.jpg.jpg

Instead, feed2disk used this wrong one:

file:///C:/ebook/zaobao/feed_12/article_0/zaobao/feed_12/article_0/images/img1.jpg.jpg

looks like a bug

[kovidgoyal]

Run feeds2mobi or any2mobi

[pubolab]

yes that works, Thank you!

[Sydney's Mom]

I love Calibre and it emails to my kindle. But the format is listed as EPUB, MOBI. I didn't enter EPUB, and can't find it entered anywhere else. Can you tell me why that is?

If I leave Calibre running, and it downloads news, how can I set it to automatically convert and email.

Thanks for all you do. Debra

[kovidgoyal]

you can double click on the formats list to change it. If you leave calibre running it will automatically email downloaded news to you.

[Sydney's Mom]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

you can double click on the formats list to change it. If you leave calibre running it will automatically email downloaded news to you.

How does it know to convert it first?

[kovidgoyal]

Set your output format to MOBI (next to the red heart) and th enews will be downloaded in MOBI format

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pubolab

Have some problem of reading Chinese news feed.

I have applied the unicode font hack as mentioned in

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20644

I am reading a news feed from a Chinese news paper

http://realtime.zaobao.com/news.xml

When I choose the LRF as output format, I am able to view the Chinese characters correctly on PRS-505. Only thing is that the titles and links font size is too big. (Same behavior when viewed with calibre internal viewer)

When I choose the EPUB as output format, the calibre internal viewer can view it correctly and the font size is fine.
However, the PRS-505 can not view it properly. All Chinese characters are replaced with '?', and the reader reboots after turning a few pages.

Any idea?

Edit the CSS of the ePub to add in the Chinese font. Then you should be able to read it fine. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36361

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

That is a known feature of epub format on sony reader. Sony reader uses different fonts for displaying epub files than LRF files. You need to set epub files to use LRF fonts.

To do that in news recipe add this line to it:

    extra_css = '@font-face @font-face {font-family: "serif1";src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf)} body{font-family: serif1, serif} .article_description{font-family: serif1, serif} p{font-family: serif1, serif}'

And you can also ass in the CSS code and install the Times New Roman italic and bold fonts as well to give true italics and true bold.

[Justy]

I recently installed Calibre and it looks quite useful. I have over 800 eBooks mostly in Mobipocket format. As expected several hundred of these did not have metadata which was picked up by Calibre. I would like to make use of the "metadata from filename" option but I have my eBooks named in 2 different ways.

NotSeries: Genre_Author_Title
Series: Genre_Author_SeriesName#_Title

for NotSeries this works: (?P<tags>.+)_(?P<author>[^_]+)_(?P<title>.+)

I'm not sure how to add in the series information so that it will continue to work for both title types. Any suggestions are welcome!

[Sabardeyn]

This is my first update to calibre so I just wanted to verify the process. Are the steps below correct?

1) Close all calibre windows.
2) Right click on the calibre system tray icon and choose Quit.
3) Remove calibre using Add/Remove Programs (or the Start Menu option, Uninstall calibre).
4) Once process ends, find and run the updated calibre installation file.


Lastly a couple of questions:

• Will the library metadata be retained., or must it be re-entered when updating?
• Can the library path be changed without re-entering the books or metadata? (Assume books are moved to a completely different hard drive and file structure: C:\Books\<author>\<title>.<ext> to G:\Library\Books\<author>\<title>.<ext>.)
• Is there any way to group book genre files seperately? Adding a Fiction, Manuals, News or equivalent folder between ...\Books\<author>\ in my example above?
• Similiarly, can authors be grouped alphabetically within a genre? (I've noticed with so many authors my system is slowing down a bit.)

Thanks in advance for the answers.