Ubuntu – Add notes to books in Calibre

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Does anyone know of a plugin that lets you add notes to books in Calibre?

I read quite a lot of books (actual books) and I'm quite used to add little side notes on small sticky notes. Since some books aren't shipped to my location I decided to buy the e-books and use Calibre to read them. Only thing I missed was a way to add notes. I've been using Mendeley for quite some time now, so I know it's possible to add notes but I'm using Mendeley for my work and I don't want to clutter it with e-books. Is there anyone who can help me?

Best Answer

There is an answer but you'll have to decide whether making your own annotations is more imporpant than GUI consistency: https://okular.kde.org/ (Obviously a KDE program, so it will install lots of dependency libraries and look ugly in a gnome environment, but it does what you need...)

Actually making your own annotations in Calibre?

No-go...

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Ubuntu – Does Calibre support Full Text Indexing / Search

Unfortunately Calibre does not have full-fext (Context) search for now. It's on the TODO list, but it will be a while before it is implemented (it's rather low down on that list).

As for me in addition to Calibre you can use DocFetcher for Full Text (context) Search in Calibre's Library folder. It is working as axpected on Windows for me.

Ubuntu – When is the latest Calibre 3 going to be available in Ubuntu 16.04 in Software Center

Because of the fact that we can not change release policy inside Ubuntu, you probably will not get it from official Ubuntu xenial repositories.

But you can use one of the following methods to install the software:

You can try to install calibre from Jonathon F's PPA.
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/calibre
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calibre
```
This will install v3.25 which is newer than v3.21 from Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS.

It looks great:

Also can try to download latest version from official site:

cd ~/Downloads
https://download.calibre-ebook.com/3.26.1/calibre-3.26.1-x86_64.txz
tar -xf calibre-3.26.1-x86_64.txz

and launch it from here with

./calibre

Other possibility is a Snap package.

Currently no calibre snap-package exist. Calibre has very beautiful interface, but Snap currently ignores theming, so it will not look pretty.

And I have doubts about the functionality of this option. Snap-version may not have access to USB-memory of the ebook-reader because of missed removable-media plug/interface.

Also about Snap version I can cite Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) from " feature request - package calibre as snap app" bug-report 1707517 from 2017-07-30 at launchpad.net:

There is already a cross-distro tarball that works without snap.

Also IMHO snap is still a disaster and I'm very grateful Kovid doesn't use it. He's already rejected snap multiple times

https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

duplicate 1699620

Best Answer

No-go...

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