You will find the list of Frequently Asked Questions useful as well. For even more power and versatility, learn the Command Line Interface. To get started with more advanced usage, you should read about The Graphical User Interface. Once the icon stops spinning again, disconnect your reader and read away! If you didn’t convert the book in the previous step, calibre will auto convert it to the format your reader device understands. If you want to read the book on your reader, connect the reader to the computer, wait till calibre detects it (10-20 seconds) and then click the “Send to device” button. Click the “View” button to read the book. Once it’s finished spinning, your converted book is ready. The little icon in the bottom right corner will start spinning. Ignore all the options for now and click “OK”. Just select the book you want to convert then click the “Convert books” button. When first running calibre, the Welcome wizard starts and will set up calibre for your reader device. In order to do that you’ll have to convert the book to a format your reader understands. Once you’ve admired the list of books you just added to your heart’s content, you’ll probably want to read one. Once you’ve added the books, they will show up in the main view looking something like this: Drag and drop a few e-book files into calibre, or click the “Add books” button and browse for the e-books you want to work with. What do you do now? Before calibre can do anything with your e-books, it first has to know about them. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and macOS. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It can go out to the Internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can also talk to many e-book reader devices. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats. That might work, but I've never tried it since I never actually use mobi anymore.Calibre is an e-book library manager. The ONLY reason to use mobi these days is because that is all Amazon will let you email to your Kindle.another Amazon who-knows-why quirk.Īfter-thought: But since you have done all that work already, you might try doing a mobi-to-mobi conversion, after editing the metadata. It's an old format and azw3 will give you better appearance and styling opportunities. Then, after the metadata is in the book itself, convert to mobi, if you must.īest of all, just forget mobi. If these are not on your menu, you can find them in Preferences and put them there. (Embed Metadata will do the textual metadata, but not the cover.) So to fix your problem, edit the metadata on a copy in epub or azw3 format, then run Polish (which has various settings and will let you update the cover and all metadata in the book file). So changing metadata on a mobi file is not going to get it into the book (but see the last paragraph below, an after-thought). Mobi will not.you can't edit a mobi file, and it stores its metadata in a different way anyhow. To write it to the book file itself, you have to do one of several things: run the Polish function, or run the Embed Metadata function, or convert the book.Įpub and azw3 books are editable in Calibre, and will respond to Polish and Embed Metadata. As you have discovered, the metadata you change in Calibre only initially affects the external opf file stored in the Calibre library.
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