Tag: Calibre

How to Transfer EPUBs from Apple Books to Calibre

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Apple Books (formerly iBooks) exports personal EPUBs as folders containing loose files and unwanted metadata like iTunesMetadata.plist, which Calibre can’t import directly. Cleaning these into standard ZIP-based EPUBs allows seamless transfer to Calibre for management and conversion. This guide covers extraction, batch cleaning via terminal (with the provided script), and platform-specific solutions for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Extracting EPUB Folders[…]

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How to create a menu entry for Calibre

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I have installed Calibre, the perfect ebook management program, on a fresh install of Xfce using the Linux binary installer from the official website and I found no entry for Calibre on the applications menu. A menu entry for Calibre that works also under Xfce No menu entry, so, to solve this issue I have created a .desktop file for[…]

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