Using prior version of Calibre eBook reader

[wildchild1954]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

- Download the portable version of Calibre 3.48. Extract it wherever. Don't bother opening it; you're just using the viewer.

I have tried to download that portable version of Calibre 3.48 but all it downloads is an installer and you said not to do that. Nowhere is there an Extract command

[BetterRed]

That calibre-portable-installer-3.48.0.exe with ask you where to install it - it's a self extracting zip.

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[wildchild1954]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

- In your main Calibre, go to Preferences > Interface > Behavior and on the right side uncheck the "use internal viewer for..." whichever formats you primarily use.

- Go find a book in your library that uses that format, and use the "Open containing folder" button. (You might need to use Preferences > Interface > Toolbar & menus to add it somewhere if it's disabled.)

- Assuming you're using Windows, right-click the eBook and Open With > Choose another app. There's an option somewhere to choose another application on the computer. Use that, then navigate to the folder where you extracted the portable version of Calibre. Look for an ebook-viewer.exe and pick it. Also make sure that "use this to always open [format]" is selected

I got the portable version downloaded and installed. However my version of Calibre doesn't have a button beside the "use internal viewer for:" But if I uncheck everything in the list below it, then follow the steps you give when I try to open an epub book at the right-click the eBook and Open With > Choose another app, all I can get is the following message: This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel."

I can open the old ebook Viewer and use it to open an epub but I can't make it maintain the association. Every time I want to open that epub I have to use the Viewer to do it again.

Can we figure out how to make this association stick? I tried using the Control Panel and Default Programs but that won't work either.

[BetterRed]

@wildchild1954 - see Configuring and using Calibre's built in Open With

I can't see your image, I think its in your private google drive. Post it here, by going into Advanced Mode and clicking the paper clip or scrolling down and clicking the Manage Attachments button.

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[wildchild1954]

[BetterRed]

With the settings in that screen shot calibre will use the 4.12 viewer when viewing epubs.

Rather than messing Windows Open With I prefer to use Calibre's Open With to access the 3.48 viewer as described in the link I posted in post 19.

But I've forgotten why you don't want to use the version 4 viewer, I didn't like the 4.0 viewer, which is why I hooked installed calibre into the 3.48 portable viewer. But Kovid has made a lot changes since then, so I rarely use the old one now.

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[BetterRed]

PS: I noticed you have DOCX checked in that screenshot. Why do you want to view DOCX files with the calibre viewer, and not a 'native' viewer like Word or Office Writer (which would presumably be the Windows default handler for DOCX).

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[wildchild1954]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

With the settings in that screen shot calibre will use the 4.12 viewer when viewing epubs.

Rather than messing Windows Open With I prefer to use Calibre's Open With to access the 3.48 viewer as described in the link I posted in post 19.

But I've forgotten why you don't want to use the version 4 viewer, I didn't like the 4.0 viewer, which is why I hooked installed calibre into the 3.48 portable viewer. But Kovid has made a lot changes since then, so I rarely use the old one now.

BR

I have no idea how to change the settings in the screen shot so that I can access the 3.48 viewer. Nor do I have any idea how to set the Open With in Calibre. Walk me step-by-step (preferably with screen shots so I can see what I'm supposed to do!) through this process and maybe I can finally get this done.

[BetterRed]

Click the link I posted in the first line of post #19 and you'll find a step by step instructions with screen shots

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[wildchild1954]

Your instructions from the link in Post #19 still don't do me any good. Not a one of the shown screen shots look anything like what I'm working with in Calibre v4.13.0. If I right click on the epub format as shown in the first screen shot all I get is Select All, Copy all, and Search the internet for this book.

[BetterRed]

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[wildchild1954]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

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That IS where I'm right-clicking! Since I pare down information I don't really need the only things that show under the cover image are Title, Authors, Published, and Formats. So if I right-click on that epub after Formats: all I get is Select All, Copy all, and Search the internet for this book as shown in the screen shot I posted.

[ownedbycats]

You have to right-click exactly on the text (the cursor will change when you're hovering it). It can be tricky sometimes.

[wildchild1954]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

You have to right-click exactly on the text (the cursor will change when you're hovering it). It can be tricky sometimes.

It doesn't seem to matter where I click on that darned EPUB. Even making sure the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand when I'm hovering it all I can get is those same three links. Does the fact that I'm using Calibre v4.13 instead of v4.12 matter?

[kovidgoyal]

You have created a custom formats column and that is what you are displaying in the book details panel. Dispay the builtin formats one and it will work.