Questions about Calibre not reading/converting DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files

[morlaine]

I've been looking for a book reader that can handle all or almost all the book formats that I have including epub, doc, docx, pdf, DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files. From the documentation I've read, Calibre is supposed to be able to handle these files. Calibre works fine with epub, doc, docx, pdf files but not with the others.

First, I tried opening the DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files and Calibre said the format was not supported and then took me to an online description of the files. Then I tried converting them to epub which is my format of choice. And in some cases, it acted like it converted them, however, it only converted the first page, nothing else.

Am I expecting too much from Calibre? Are there plugins that I need to add for it to read and/or convert these files? Currently, I only have the DRM Removal plugin, nothing else.

Thank you for your help.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by morlaine

I've been looking for a book reader that can handle all or almost all the book formats that I have including epub, doc, docx, pdf, DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files. From the documentation I've read, Calibre is supposed to be able to handle these files. Calibre works fine with epub, doc, docx, pdf files but not with the others.

First, I tried opening the DJVU, CBR, CHM, RAR files and Calibre said the format was not supported and then took me to an online description of the files. Then I tried converting them to epub which is my format of choice. And in some cases, it acted like it converted them, however, it only converted the first page, nothing else.

Am I expecting too much from Calibre? Are there plugins that I need to add for it to read and/or convert these files? Currently, I only have the DRM Removal plugin, nothing else.

Thank you for your help.

I have converted CHM to EPUB from time to time, it's always worked. I lost the Index, Search and Favourites tabs which is understandable (maybe Favourites would convert to bookmarks if any existed). But I'd prefer to view them natively.

CBR should convert - if it doesn't, it may not be a 'valid' CBR - i.e. a solid archive of images.

I suggest you search the Conversion sub forum for RAR and DJVU. How a RAR is handled depends on its contents, and DJVU files are a special case -- not unlike PDF's.

BR