Each book that is successfully sent will have a checkmark in the "On Device" column. Tap a book in Calibre Companion. This will open the book's details. Tap your ebook reader if prompted. If you have more than one ebook reader, you'll be prompted to select the one you want to use.
Otherwise the book will open immediately in your reader app. Part 4. Click the Start button. The most common problem when trying to connect calibre to your Android device is Windows firewall settings. Type "windows firewall. Click "Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall. Click the "Change settings" button. You'll be prompted for the admin password if you aren't already the administrator.
Check the box to the left of "The main calibre program. Try connecting again. Repeat the previous section to connect to calibre on your computer. If it's your kindle device then you will find the books when you press on the 'Home' button in your kindle in the upper left side. You see the covers of the books you've downloaded the most recently. If you want to browse the other books whose covers are not visible, then you can tap on 'My Library' above the cover of the latest downloaded book.
It will show all the books that you've downloaded. If you've just taken a sample, they will be present to the right of the covers of the downloaded books. Yes No. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 1. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. We also need information about your device that calibre will collect automatically.
First, if your device supports SD cards, insert them. Then connect your device to the computer. This will create some debug output.
Copy it to a file and repeat the process, this time with your device disconnected from your computer. Send both the above outputs to us with the other information and we will write a device driver for your device. Once you send us the output for a particular operating system, support for the device in that operating system will appear in the next release of calibre.
To send us the output, open a bug report and attach the output to it. See how to report bugs. Make sure that you are connecting only a single device to your computer at a time. Instead use a wireless connection, via the calibre Content server. Make sure you are running the latest version of calibre currently 5. The latest version can always be downloaded from the calibre website. You can tell what version of calibre you are currently running by looking at the bottom line of the main calibre window.
Ensure your operating system is seeing the device. Note: on Windows, the device must have a drive letter for calibre to use it. Note that if you are using the user defined plugin for a device normally detected by a builtin calibre plugin, you must disable the builtin plugin first, so that your user defined plugin is used instead. This app allows calibre to connect to your Apple device wirelessly, just as though you plugged in the device with a USB cable. You can browse files on the device in calibre and use the Send to device button to transfer files to your device wirelessly.
Another easy way to browse your calibre collection from your Apple device is by using the calibre Content server, which makes your collection available over the net. First perform the following steps in calibre. The Content server allows you to read books directly in Safari itself. In addition, there are many apps for your iDevice that can connect to the calibre Content server. Examples include: Marvin, Mapleread and iBooks itself.
Start the Safari browser and type in the IP address and port of the computer running the calibre server, like this:. Replace See The calibre Content server for details on running the server and finding out the right IP address to use. You will see a list of books in Safari, tap on any book and you will be given the option to either download it, or read it in the browser itself.
If you choose to download it, Safari will ask you if you want to open it with iBooks. There are two ways that you can connect your Android device to calibre. Using a USB cable — or wirelessly, over the air.
The first step to using an Android device is installing an e-book reading application on it. Simply plug your device into the computer with a USB cable. Note that on macOS and Linux only a single program can connect to an Android device at a time, so make sure the device is not opened in the OS File manager, or the Android File Transfer utility, etc.
With newer Android devices, you might have to jump through a few hoops to get the connection working, as Google really does not want you to be independent of its cloud. First, unlock the screen before plugging in the USB cable. When you plugin in the USB cable you will get a popup notification.
You may need to restart calibre at this point in order for your device to be recognized. Finally, you might get a popup on the device every time calibre or the operating system actually tries to connect to it, asking for permission, tap OK. With the Kindle Fire 8 or newer there is an icon that shows up when the USB cable is plugged in, showing that the device is charging.
Tap that and switch the device to data transfer mode, and then start calibre, it should then be detected. The easiest way to transfer books wirelessly to your Android device is to use the Calibre Companion Android app.
This app allows calibre to connect to your Android device wirelessly, just as though you plugged in the device with a USB cable. You can browse your calibre collection on your Android device by using the calibre Content server, which makes your collection available over the net. You can now browse your book collection and download books from calibre to your device to open with whatever e-book reading software you have on your Android device.
Calibre Companion and many reading apps support browsing the calibre library directly. You can now browse the calibre library and download directly into the reading software.
See The calibre Content server for details. In that case, change the port in the calibre Preferences to On some operating systems, you may not be able to run the server on a port number less than because of security settings. In this case the simplest solution is to adjust your router to forward requests on port 80 to port Also some devices do not have browsers advanced enough to run the app-like interface used by the Content server.
Because of the large amount of spam in email, sending email can be tricky, as different mail servers use different strategies to block email. The most common problem is if you are sending email directly without a mail relay in calibre. Many servers for example, Amazon block email that does not come from a well known relay.
The most robust way to setup email sending in calibre is to do the following:. If you are sending to your Kindle, remember to update the email preferences on your Amazon Kindle page to allow email sent from your GMX email address. Finally, Amazon recently started sending confirmation emails that you have to click on back to your GMX account before the book is actually delivered.
They prefer you use Gmail to avoid the confirmation emails. See the note below for setting up Gmail to work with calibre. Even after doing this, you may have problems. One common source of problems is that some poorly designed antivirus programs block calibre from opening a connection to send email. Try adding an exclusion for calibre in your antivirus program.
So, when using these services to send mail calibre automatically restricts itself to sending one book every five minutes. Google recently deliberately broke their email sending protocol SMTP support in an attempt to force everyone to use their web interface so they can show you more ads.
They are trying to claim that SMTP is insecure, that is incorrect and simply an excuse. If you have trouble with Gmail you will need to setup an app password. Use this app password as the password for Gmail in the calibre settings.
If you are concerned about giving calibre access to your email account, simply create a new free email account with GMX or Hotmail and use it only for calibre. Linux kernels mount devices read-only when their filesystems have errors.
You can repair the filesystem with:. Note that in the case of the Kindle, there is a way to manipulate collections via USB, but it requires that the Kindle be rebooted every time it is disconnected from the computer, for the changes to the collections to be recognized. As such, it is unlikely that any calibre developers will ever feel motivated enough to support it.
There is however, a calibre plugin that allows you to create collections on your Kindle from the calibre metadata. It is available from here. Amazon have removed the ability to manipulate collections completely in their newer models, like the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire, making even the above plugin useless, unless you root your Kindle and install custom firmware. The Kobo has very buggy firmware.
Connecting to it has been known to fail at random. If you are getting an error when connecting to your touch with calibre try the following, each of which has solved the problem for some calibre users. Log out of the Kobo and log in again, this causes it to rebuild the database, fixing corrupted database errors. Try resetting the Kobo sometimes this cures the problem for a little while, but then it re-appears, in which case you have to reset again and again.
Try only putting one or two books onto the Kobo at a time and do not keep large collections on the Kobo. This happens because of an Amazon bug.
They try to download a cover for the book from their servers and when that fails, they replace the existing cover that calibre created with a generic cover. For details see this forum thread. As of version 4. So in order to see the covers on your Kindle, you have to:. Note that this workaround only works for books sent with calibre 4.
I encourage you to contact Amazon customer support and complain loudly about this bug. Maybe Amazon will listen. If the workaround is not working for you make sure you Kindle firmware is at least version 5. Books sent to the Kindle only show up on the Kindle after they have been indexed by the Kindle. This can take some time. If the book still does not show up after some time, then it is likely that the Kindle indexer crashed.
Sometimes a particular book can cause the indexer to crash. Unfortunately, Amazon has not provided any way to deduce which book is causing a crash on the Kindle. Your only recourse is to either reset the Kindle, or delete all files from its memory using Windows Explorer or whatever file manager you use and then send the books to it again, one by one, until you discover the problem book.
This will most likely take care of the problem. Where are the book files stored? How does calibre manage author names and sorting? How do I move my calibre data from one computer to another? The list of books in calibre is blank! When you first run calibre, it will ask you for a folder in which to store your books. Whenever you add a book to calibre, it will copy the book into that folder. Books in the folder are nicely arranged into sub-folders by Author and Title. If you want to add a file associated to a particular book, use the top right area of Edit metadata dialog to do so.
Calibre supports Android devices; however, its support is probably rudimentary. In spite of the slight inadequacy of SlowRain's posts, his point is valid: cloud storage solutions like DropBox or SpiderOak have the advantage that you can keep your folder structure exactly as you want to: that is, you can take your Calibre Library and copy it into your Dropbox desktop folder provided that it takes less than 2 gigabytes or that you pay the Dropbox fees; nevertheless, the Dropbox Android app won't download the whole library on your phone, but it'll download the files in an on-request basis.
All times are GMT The time now is PM. Mark Forums Read. User Name. Remember Me? Tip Got Facebook? Page 1 of 2. Thread Tools. Find More Posts by margaretanne. Find More Posts by Dopedangel. Find More Posts by SlowRain. And there is a checkmark in the "On Device" tag before the book in Calibre computer program you have sent. Then the index of the content server will display. Choose any tag to check the books from Calibre Library. And tap any book to download or show the metadata.
The books that have been in the Calibre Companion will be marked with "On device" tag. Then choose your cloud services. The books in your cloud providers will be synced in Calibre Companion. Tap the book and then tap "READ" option. Or long press the book and choose a reader to read. Calibre Library is another Android app designed for Calibre computer program. Compared with Calibre Companion, it's simpler and hooked with Calibre content server. You can use it to sync your books from Calibre computer library and download to read.
Then install it on your mobile phone. When the first time you use it, there will be a message to remind you to set the server address. Click "OK". Then type the IP address into the "Server Address" option. This IP address is just the Calibre content server address. After that, your Calibre Library books will be synced.
After the Calibre books synced, they will be wrapped by newest, title, authors and languages tags.
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