I updated #calibre (the ebook software) the other day. I don't use its graphical interface, and only have it around for its command line tools. Nevertheless, every time I've opened a text-or-document-adjacent filetype since, #Windows has asked me which app I want to use. It hasn't set my file associations to calibre, just unset all of my existing ones so that I have to answer a pointless prompt multiple times per day. How does this make any sense?
@joel = “since Calibre will organize books in folders by author”
I didn't like that part when I could see it in the folder structure. (It was all behind the scenes on my Kindle Voyage.) So I convert books in #Calibre, but manually copy them over to my #Kobo#Sage, with one folder for novels and another for shorts.
“I have read a lot more than in previous months thanks to this acquisition, which makes me quite happy.”
I also find I read more when I can see the calendar stats and weekly stats.
Having a problem with my Calibre-created ebook where its chapters are listed properly in the table of contents, and the pages are counted correctly, in every device including the Kobo app on my iPad…except on my Kobo Clara ereader, where it says 1 of 22 for 3 pages in a row, then 2 of 22 for three pages etc (basically the pages aren’t reflowing with the change of screen and font size).
And I found a reddit thread where someone has the same/similar problem, and asks for a solution, and the only answer is someone informing them that pages are an obsolete concept in Ebooks, and it’s like…have you ever used any ereading device, which will tell you how many pages you have left in a chapter and recalculate that for you if you happen to change screen/font size?
And I’m so annoyed on the question-asker’s behalf. Sorry they didn’t type “pages” in quote marks to prove they know they’re not real in ebooks, or type “number of taps until I reach the end of the chapter” or whatever phrase they needed to use to not trigger a completely irrelevant lecture.
(Maybe it was that technique where you ask a question and log on as a different user to answer it very wrongly to enrage people into giving the correct answer 😂)
I don't like reading from an ereader - I'm one of those old-school people who prefer actual paper books - but I can no longer use a reading light in bed because it'll wake up the kid. An ereader with a backlight would be better. But I don't buy books on Amazon. What's your favorite non-Kindle reader that you've actually used?
After just getting a baker's dozen of technical books from #HumbleBundle that are relevant to my work, the first thing was filing them away in #Calibre
The second thing was rabbitholing into how one could set up an LLM-based system to query all these ebooks I hoarded over time? ... Too much information, too little time to make use of them, and this plan would successfully distract me from the actual needed act of learning and synthesis in my own head. 😅
Finished Book 1 (a third) of #Dune by Frank Herbert and it is really good so far, I actually feel that watching the movie helps quite a bit to understand some things, they compliment each other well so far.
And I use #Koreader instead of the default interface because of the better stats and I don't need to use the specific kepub format (also better support for CBZ files
just to say, guys, Calibre's pretty great. not the most intuitive interface, and sometimes you gotta go looking for some info that should be more obvious, but like, wow, the functionality is really there, you know. (^_^) #eBooks#Calibre
📚 Calibre 7.4 Open-Source Ebook Manager Adds Support for Supernote A6X2 Nomad
ᐅ @9to5linux
「 Apart from support for the Supernote A6X2 Nomad device, this release adds a few UI enhancements like the ability for users to assign keyboard shortcuts to the tag browser sort functions, as well as a new keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+L) for toggling the main window layout 」
I'm a big proponent of RSS feeds. Even run my own #FreshRSS RSS aggregator and reader & have custom #Calibre recipes for archiving #rss for pdf reading.
Mainly talking about websites could easily enter the #Fediverse social media field by turning on the #ActivityPub plugin on their existing #WordPress#blog setups.
Still, many people are letting a great resource pass by them by not utilizing RSS feeds that exist. Nice to see some RSS bridges like these. https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
@villares I'm digitising my old CDs and scanning all the inserts while I do it - experimenting with using the Calibre Audio M3U plugin to store the music and inserts together. Now I've started wondering about using #Calibre to catalogue a coin collection too - there are so many potential uses!
Il fatto che ebook da me regolarmente acquistati non mi vengano messi completamente a disposizione (per scelta degli editori che li lucchettano con drm) mi fa imbestialire in una maniera... che è subito deDRM su Calibre e vaffancul.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.
Sostenete editori che non limitano i loro prodotti con il DRM.
I have 429 ebooks in Calibre that need organised. I'd really like to NOT have to do it completely by hand. Are there any scripts or programs out there that can take some or all of the work out of the equation?