Frequently Asked Questions - Page 39

itimpi · 12-22-2010, 04:49 PM

Not as far as I know.

Looking at the Change Log this happened in the 0.7.30 release and it mentions throttling emails to gmail/hotmail to not be more frequent than one every 5 minutes.

Flameingskull · 12-22-2010, 09:01 PM

I recently came accross calibre (a few hours ago iirc lol) when I was seperatley searching for software that would convert my e-books and software that would manage my collection. Not that it's huge, only around 16000 books which is nothing compared to my digital comics collection but I digress. Until today I've been manually organizing my books into folders for each author and it's obviousley quite a tedious thing to do as well as to rememeber by whom each series of books was written by and find them within a window covered in named foders so calibre is going to be a very handy application to use (I'm currently in the process of adding all of my ebooks into the library at once lol).

So here's my question:

Why does calibre have to have a seperate library folder and why does it have to copy ebooks into it rather than use existing folders that are in place?

After reading the question myself even I find it a tad to simple and broad so let me try and clarify it it somewhat.

I use a piece of software called comicrack to organise and manage all of my digial comics and manga and just like calibre by default it has an empty library until you set folders that it scans within the preferences menu, now I've set up comickrack to scan the folders I already use to store my comics and manga and tweaked the preferences so that it scans during start up and removes missing files etc but it doesn't make physical copies of the files and just like calibre it uses metadata and has the ability (with certain plugins) to download and save the metadata for comics that are added to my library but doesn't have the added annoyance of having to delete files and calculate double hard drive space when adding a large number of files into the library. So why doesn't calibre work in a similar fashion and if it does but requires a bit of a work around to do so how do I go about it?

MrsJoseph · 12-22-2010, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manichean

That shouldn't be a problem, I believe.

Thanks!

DoctorOhh · 12-22-2010, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flameingskull

So why doesn't calibre work in a similar fashion and if it does but requires a bit of a work around to do so how do I go about it?

The simple answer is because the developer of calibre decided to do it differently then the developer of comicrack decided to do it.

Here is the answer in the FAQ.

Lady Fitzgerald · 12-23-2010, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwanthny

The simple answer is because the developer of calibre decided to do it differently the developer of comicrack decided to do it.

Here is the answer in the FAQ.

The thing with calibre is one does not need to directly access the files themselves so it doesn't really matter how what calibre does with the files. Everrything you can do by accessing the files directly, you can not only do from within calibe, calibre can do more and do it better. Frankly, the old folder/filename tree has outlived its usefulness.

Flameingskull · 12-23-2010, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwanthny

The simple answer is because the developer of calibre decided to do it differently then the developer of comicrack decided to do it.

Here is the answer in the FAQ.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

The thing with calibre is one does not need to directly access the files themselves so it doesn't really matter how what calibre does with the files. Everrything you can do by accessing the files directly, you can not only do from within calibe, calibre can do more and do it better. Frankly, the old folder/filename tree has outlived its usefulness.

Fair enough, I guess that since it's the first time I'm setting the library up it'll require more attention so to speak but once I've gone through all of it the first time adding books to it there after should be much easier lol

not that it's difficult mind you, just tediouse but that's more due to my collection not having standard file naming system than any fault of calibre lol

Thanks for help ^_^

Starson17 · 12-23-2010, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flameingskull

more due to my collection not having standard file naming system than any fault of calibre

Whatever your naming system is, if it's consistent, you should be able to get all you data - author, title, series, series number into Calibre with a suitable choice of regex used in the Add Books of Prefernces _>Import/Export. Spend some time figuring this out, ask here and then do your import. I think most of us have leaped in and realized we could have done so much better if we'd known what we were doing when we first imported files. Sometimes it's worth doing a bulk file rename just to get the files in good order before importing.

Good luck.

Flameingskull · 12-23-2010, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starson17

Whatever your naming system is, if it's consistent, you should be able to get all you data - author, title, series, series number into Calibre with a suitable choice of regex used in the Add Books of Prefernces _>Import/Export. Spend some time figuring this out, ask here and then do your import. I think most of us have leaped in and realized we could have done so much better if we'd known what we were doing when we first imported files. Sometimes it's worth doing a bulk file rename just to get the files in good order before importing.

Good luck.

I think I'm going to have to do that lol, I've gotten my books for several different sources and until now I've not really needed a consistent naming system for the files, luckily I have just the application for bulk renaming ^_^

library addict · 12-26-2010, 06:01 PM

I have a Word document which I then saved in RTF format. It contains a large numbered list. When I convert it to ePub, the numbers all display as "1)" rather than sequentially. Any way to fix this?

ile · 12-26-2010, 06:06 PM

Would it be possible to make ebook-convert.exe to fetch the images from the internet (i.e. if the image is referenced with an url)?

kovidgoyal · 12-26-2010, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ile

Would it be possible to make ebook-convert.exe to fetch the images from the internet (i.e. if the image is referenced with an url)?

No, use a html downloader program like wget or httrack for that and then convert the resulting html.

kovidgoyal · 12-26-2010, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by library addict

I have a Word document which I then saved in RTF format. It contains a large numbered list. When I convert it to ePub, the numbers all display as "1)" rather than sequentially. Any way to fix this?

Save your as html instead of RTF see http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual...word-documents

library addict · 12-26-2010, 09:33 PM

Thanks!

Sinnott · 01-05-2011, 08:20 AM

For the life of my I can't get calibre to 'talk' with my Archos 101 Android tablet. I'm sure I'm missing something simple.

I start the server in calibre.

On my tablet, I open up WordPlayer v3 on my Archos.

When I try to find the library through WordPlayer I click on "My Calibre Library" and enter "192.168.1.100:8081" as the url (which I obtained through ipconfig, and added the server port listed in calibre.)

I keep getting a "Calibre server not found" error.

The 'test server' in calibre brings up the appropriate page on my desktop computer, but that url gives me the same problem on my Archos.

Any help would be appreciated.

Manichean · 01-05-2011, 09:06 AM

The "Test server"- button calls the server on the loopback address instead of the external IP address of the computer. Can you reach it on the computer by typing the address as you typed it into the tablet? Can you reach it via browser on the tablet? Is the tablet in the same IP range as your computer is? If you have a combined router/AP, then sometimes the WLAN devices are not allowed to talk to the wired LAN devices, which I'm assuming your computer to be, for security reasons. Is this the case on your network?

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12-22-2010, 04:49 PM	#571
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,553 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	Not as far as I know. Looking at the Change Log this happened in the 0.7.30 release and it mentions throttling emails to gmail/hotmail to not be more frequent than one every 5 minutes.

12-22-2010, 09:01 PM	#572
Flameingskull Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Nintendo DS	I recently came accross calibre (a few hours ago iirc lol) when I was seperatley searching for software that would convert my e-books and software that would manage my collection. Not that it's huge, only around 16000 books which is nothing compared to my digital comics collection but I digress. Until today I've been manually organizing my books into folders for each author and it's obviousley quite a tedious thing to do as well as to rememeber by whom each series of books was written by and find them within a window covered in named foders so calibre is going to be a very handy application to use (I'm currently in the process of adding all of my ebooks into the library at once lol). So here's my question: Why does calibre have to have a seperate library folder and why does it have to copy ebooks into it rather than use existing folders that are in place? After reading the question myself even I find it a tad to simple and broad so let me try and clarify it it somewhat. I use a piece of software called comicrack to organise and manage all of my digial comics and manga and just like calibre by default it has an empty library until you set folders that it scans within the preferences menu, now I've set up comickrack to scan the folders I already use to store my comics and manga and tweaked the preferences so that it scans during start up and removes missing files etc but it doesn't make physical copies of the files and just like calibre it uses metadata and has the ability (with certain plugins) to download and save the metadata for comics that are added to my library but doesn't have the added annoyance of having to delete files and calculate double hard drive space when adding a large number of files into the library. So why doesn't calibre work in a similar fashion and if it does but requires a bit of a work around to do so how do I go about it?

12-26-2010, 06:01 PM	#579
library addict Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,154 Karma: 37197878 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Device: Nexus 7 2, Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (retired=Sony PRS650, Kobo Mini)	I have a Word document which I then saved in RTF format. It contains a large numbered list. When I convert it to ePub, the numbers all display as "1)" rather than sequentially. Any way to fix this?

12-26-2010, 06:06 PM	#580
ile Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Would it be possible to make ebook-convert.exe to fetch the images from the internet (i.e. if the image is referenced with an url)?

12-26-2010, 09:33 PM	#583
library addict Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,154 Karma: 37197878 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Device: Nexus 7 2, Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (retired=Sony PRS650, Kobo Mini)	Thanks!

01-05-2011, 08:20 AM	#584
Sinnott Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Archos Android Tablet	For the life of my I can't get calibre to 'talk' with my Archos 101 Android tablet. I'm sure I'm missing something simple. I start the server in calibre. On my tablet, I open up WordPlayer v3 on my Archos. When I try to find the library through WordPlayer I click on "My Calibre Library" and enter "192.168.1.100:8081" as the url (which I obtained through ipconfig, and added the server port listed in calibre.) I keep getting a "Calibre server not found" error. The 'test server' in calibre brings up the appropriate page on my desktop computer, but that url gives me the same problem on my Archos. Any help would be appreciated.

01-05-2011, 09:06 AM	#585
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	The "Test server"- button calls the server on the loopback address instead of the external IP address of the computer. Can you reach it on the computer by typing the address as you typed it into the tablet? Can you reach it via browser on the tablet? Is the tablet in the same IP range as your computer is? If you have a combined router/AP, then sometimes the WLAN devices are not allowed to talk to the wired LAN devices, which I'm assuming your computer to be, for security reasons. Is this the case on your network?