To remove the numbers and the which is CSS for a line break, your code would be: There’s a number followed by, then a line break. This will bring up a dialogue box that shows what the PDF looks like before conversion. The first thing you want to do is click on the wizard button. As the screenshot says, search and replace uses regular expressions. Make sure you select PDF as your input and then either Mobi or ePub (or whatever format you prefer) as output. Under “Convert books” select “Search and Replace”: When you read the PDF you can’t see them, but when you convert to ePub or Mobi they appear within the text and render the converted book unreadable. Some PDFs have line numbers that are on a hidden layer. I’m going to address three of the most common problems when converting a PDF to ePub and what you can do to address those problems. There are some tips and tricks in Calibre’s PDF conversion engine that can be used to produce very clean and readable PDFs. Often there will be stray letters or numbers or headers that affect the output of an ebook.

Select the book that you want to send to your Kindle and click “Send to Device” from the main application window.A couple of weeks ago, after this post about inserting the blurb at the front of an ebook, a reader emailed me asking about cleaning up PDF files when converting to ePub. Calibre will then show which books are on your Kindle (with a green tick) and which books have yet to be added (see image below). Plug your Kindle into the computer and wait a few moments for Calibre to recognise that a Device has been connected.

You can check that it has been converted by checking the preview window for this book – it will show that it is now formatted for MOBI and EPUB. This will say “1” while it is converting and will return to “0” when the job is finished. At the bottom right-hand corner of Calibre you will notice it says “Jobs”. To read this on a Kindle, select “MOBI” and then click OK (bottom right of the window), as shown below. You can choose the “Output format” from a drop down menu in the top right corner. You will see it appear at the top of your book list in Calibre – see image below.Ĭlick the “Convert books” button in the toolbar at the top of the application window. Among the many things it can do is to convert various ebook file types (e.g., PDF, EPUB, MOBI etc.,) to other file types.Ĭlick on the “Add books”button - this is on the top left corner of the application’s toolbar (see image below).Ĭhoose the file from where you have it saved on your computer. Calibre is primarily a versatile ebook reader and ebook library management app for both Windows and Mac.

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