i saw these posts about calibre. I had tried it once before but found it inaccessible and didn't know it could be run from the commandline. I just reinstalled it and still find it pretty much inaccessible with voiceover though I did manage to select a location for the folder. But everything in the menus is dimmed. I read in the information about calibre that you need to go into Preferences to install command line tools but this also looks inaccessible to me. Am I missing something here or can somebody tell me what to do? I do have the posts giving the terminal commands to use to convert a book. Also where can I find a list of what file types it will convert.
Thanks. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen <annieskovniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I have got it to work. Is it really true that you can only do 1 file at a > time on a mac, I have tried on windows there you can do a folder. > > Do I need to move my files into calibre, or can I do the cd command to > another folder and then do the convertion? > Best regards Annie. > Den Sep 26, 2012 kl. 11:46 AM skrev sandi sørensen <sandi1...@gmail.com>: > >> hi, i am not sure you can convert a whole library at a time but >> single converts, no problem. >> Usually i do that from the terminal. an example would look something like >> this. >> cp file from its start location too the location where you ahve the >> app laying, on my box it is /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOs. >> so the actual command line in the terminal would be: cp file.epub >> /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS. >> after that change too the right folder, location. >> cd /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS. >> okay last, but not least convert the file from one format, for me that >> might be text files. >> ./ebook-convert file.epub .txt >> after that copy the textfile or just read it as you would usually do >> with textedit. >> Congrats, you are now set to read as much as you want. >> >> >> /sandi >> >> >> On 9/25/12, Annie Skov Nielsen <annieskovniel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> Can any of you, who are used to use calibres ebook-converter guide me a >>> little. Maybe it will be easier off list, I simply can not get that to >>> work. >>> >>> Here are my questions. >>> >>> 1. do I need to turn anything on in calibre before the ebook-converter >>> works? >>> >>> 2. Can I convert a library of books at a time. >>> 3. can anyone give me an exact description that will get it to work. >>> >>> Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
