Questions tagged [ebook]
Questions about reading ebooks on your computer, or using your computer to transfer ebooks to an ebook reader.
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How to read books from Google Play Books on PC? [closed]
I have a few books uploaded on Google Play Books. Play Books isn't available in the country I'm in.
I can easily access and read these books from my Android app (although I cannot browse and purchase ...
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Destructive cropping of text outside of view in PDF(after crop by BRISS) for conversion to epub [closed]
I have vision issues and read eBooks with TTS. But a lot of eBooks are only available in PDF format and PDFs are awful when you convert them to ePub because of headers and footers.
Then I found a FOSS ...
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Extracting foregrounds from DJVU files
I tried extracting the foreground using ddjvu -mode=foreground and ddjvu -mode=black but the file that was generated was several GB in size. Following one of the answers in rhis link I then tried to ...
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How to create PocketBook-compatible BMP files using ImageMagick?
PocketBook 611 is a black-and-white e-book reader. PocketBook 611 (and models of similar age, before touch displays were introduced) uses a very specific BMP format for its so-called "Power-off ...
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How to increase the space between lines in Calibre reader?
I prefer the Calibre ebook reader to any other but I find one limitation: there is no obvious way (GUI) to change the space between lines.
I have found various solutions but these involved editing the ...
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Ebook makes Apple Books app crash
I have a Word document which I convert to .epub using Calibre. To inspect the resulting ebook, I import the .epub file into the Apple Books app on desktop. This conveniently imports the book onto my ...
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How do I convert manpages/info files to EPUB?
I like to read the manual pages on my e-reader. What is the best way to convert the manpages/info files into EPUBs?
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how do I search an ebook in epub format on a Mac?
I have purchased an e-book from ebooks.com in epub format.
I need to read it on a MAC, and I need to search for specific phrases.
Is this possible, and how?
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Adobe Digital Editions - Only the Cover Pages on all E-books are Displaying - pages blank
Fresh install of Adobe Digital Editions. I deleted all folders (program data / app data) prior to the reinstall. No change. I've never used this app on this computer before. It didn't work on ...
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Alternative to Apple Books for power users that works across all devices?
I'm quite sick of Apple Books as it randomly deletes books from my library on the iPad, and find myself out of a book exactly when I need it the most and I'm offline. The app also makes it ...
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How to Convert Kindle Ebook to PDF Using ONLY a PC
I have a Kindle eBook, but I do not want to use Amazon's Kindle Reader online to read it. I would rather convert my Kindle eBook to a PDF file and then view it on Firefox's PDF viewer if possible.
I'...
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Kobo reader: how to open the root folder
I'm trying to install Koreader, the alternative PDF-reader on my Kobo Aura One. Installation instructions say I have to install it in the root directory. When I connect the Kobo via USB to my Mac, I ...
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How to slice an epub into smaller volumes?
Some Microsoft books, and O'Reilly as well, are on the excessive side. Starting from PDF, calibre can conver to epub easily. Or, some are available as epub and even mobi.
Dealing only with `epub' ...
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How to disable library book file names transliteration in Calibre?
Whenever I import a book co the Calibre eBook manager library it converts the names/titles to English removing all the accents from European words and replacing non-Latin (e.g. Russian) words with ...
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Difficulty Handling XML Version of the United States Code
So I've been trying to put the United States Code (offered here from the U.S. House of Representatives) so that I can hopefully get it to a point where I can put it into an ebook format (either ePub ...
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