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calibre is free and open source e-book computer software that organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats.

Calibre is an ebook viewer/tool with many features, including a catalogue/library, an editor, the ability to convert between formats, and much more.

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Calibre crashing on start-up

When I try to launch calibre I get the following error: calibre qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin Gtk-Message: 14:55:04.251: Failed to load module "atk-bridge" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 20, in …
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Problems with installing Calibre on Ubuntu 16.04

I installed calibre. When i try to open it via console it states This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb". Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen,…
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Make Calibre to ask for an application each time

I have a huge ebook library of pdf files very big ones and small ones too. I use MuPDF as default application to read PDF files but some files are best viewed in Document Viewer. I need a way so that every time when I click on a PDF file to ask for…
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Calibre does not detect Kobo CLara 2E

I have bought a KOBO Clara 2E ereader. So far i have been unable to connect it to Calibre. I have also been unable to find a solution on the Internet, though there are lots op people who did say something about it. FYI: The ereader is visible in the…
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How to convert ebook in Calibre?

How do you convert an ebook to a different format in Calibre? If I select a book, click the big "Convert Books" button, select output to "MOBI", and click "OK", it appears to run a job successfully, but no new ebook format is generated. If I click…
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Calibre. does it possible to use network samba share for library storage folder

Ubuntu xenial 16.04. Calibre 2.55. All work fine, but when i try to create an empty library on a nas share selecting an empty Untitled Folder. i got Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/ui.py", line 637, in…
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Calibre suddenly crashed

I had been using Calibre (downloaded from Ubuntu software center) on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. After adding some books to my library and a proper shutdown, the Calibre did not start. From Terminal too it did not get started hence I had to use ^C and it…
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Why has Calibre stopped working?

Have used Calibre for years to transfer ebooks to my tablet but has stopped recognizing the device and any update for Calibre fail to work through Terminal.
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Calibre E-book Content Server not working on Ubuntu 22.04

Background Info: I've used Calibre for many, many years. I use the content server to allow access to my libraries over my local network. However, sometime in December the content server stopped working. I first thought that a firewall setting may…
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Failed to create calibre library at : U/media/data/files/Biblioth/xc3\xq8que calibre

calibre, version 0.8.38 ERROR: Failed to create library: Failed to create calibre library at: u'/media/data/Files/Biblioth\xc3\xa8que calibre'. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 102, in…
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