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.
An 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. Many reading apps support browsing the calibre library directly via its OPDS support.
In such apps you can go to the online catalog screen and add the IP address of the calibre server to browse and download books from your calibre library within the app. 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. It makes your calibre collection available over the net. You can browse it on your device using a simple browser or a dedicated application.
First perform the following steps in calibre:. 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. 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. Metadata about the books is stored in the file metadata. This file is a sqlite database.
When backing up your library make sure you copy the entire folder and all its sub-folders. The library folder and all its contents make up what is called a calibre library.
You can have multiple such libraries. To manage the libraries, click the calibre icon on the toolbar. You can copy or move books between different libraries once you have more than one library setup by right clicking on a book and selecting the Copy to library action. Author names are complex, especially across cultures, see this note for some of the complexities. The first thing to understand is that books and authors are separate entities in calibre.
A book can have more than one author, and an author can have more than one book. You can manage the authors of a book by the edit metadata dialog. You can manage individual authors by right clicking on the author in the Tag browser on the left of the main calibre window and selecting Manage authors. Using this dialog you can change the name of an author and also how that name is sorted. This will automatically change the name of the author in all the books of that author.
When a new author is added to calibre this happens whenever a book by a new author is added , calibre automatically computes a sort string for both the book and the author. When you succeed in adding, the title of the ebook will show in the middle list. This book is DRMed.
So if also receive this dialog when converting lit to epub, maybe you should remove drm from lit files. As the image shows, we can also set pdf as output format if we want to convert lit to pdf. Of course we can also convert lit to mobi and convert lit to azw. The formats calibre support are as below. Create an account. Edit this Article. We use cookies to make wikiHow great. By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy.
Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article parts. Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: March 29, Part 1. Understand the process. LIT files are a form of eBook that is no longer supported. It was developed by Microsoft for use with the Microsoft Reader program. Its use was discontinued in and the Microsoft Reader program is no longer available for download.
You'll want to convert them to a friendlier format that is supported by all your devices. Installing an old version of Microsoft Reader would only let you to view the LIT files on your current computer. Converting the files will allow you to transfer them to any of your devices, including an iPad or Kindle. It will also make it easier to open them on your computer in a modern eBook reader. Converting the files will remove this DRM and allow you to use your files as you'd like. You must remove the DRM using the Windows computer that was originally authorized to open the files.
There is no other way to remove this DRM short of taking screenshots of each page. Download Convert LIT. This tool will convert your LIT files into an open format that works on many readers and can easily be converted into other eBook formats. This will allow you to transfer it to your other devices. This should only be used as fair-use to remove DRM from files that you own. It should not be used to pirate eBooks. The formats calibre supports are listed below.
On your Android device or Fire tablet, you can use the OverDrive app to borrow and read borrowed ebooks; alternatively, you can use OverDrive Read to read ebooks in your browser. Tap the file once to open or preview it, then select the Upload to Play Books option from the pop-up menu.
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