Interface gráfico de utilizador¶

A Interface Gráfica do Usuário fornece acesso a todos os recursos de gerenciamento de bibliotecas e de conversão de formatos de e-books. O fluxo de trabalho básico para o uso do calibre é primeiro adicionar livros à biblioteca a partir do seu disco rígido. O calibre tentará automaticamente ler os metadados dos livros e adicioná-los ao seu banco de dados interno. Uma vez no banco de dados, você pode executar várias ações: ref: ações, que incluem conversão de um formato para outro, transferência para o dispositivo de leitura, visualização no computador e edição de metadados. O último inclui a modificação da capa, descrição e tags, entre outros detalhes. Observe que o calibre cria cópias dos arquivos adicionados a ele. Seus arquivos originais permanecem intocados.

A interface está dividida em várias secções:

Ações ¶

A barra de ferramentas ações fornece atalhos convenientes para as ações mais usadas. Se você clicar com o botão direito do mouse nos botões, poderá executar variações na ação padrão. Observe que a barra de ferramentas ações terá uma aparência um pouco diferente, dependendo se você possui um leitor de e-book conectado ao seu computador.

Adicionar Livros ¶

adbi A ação Add books possui sete variações acessíveis através do clique com o botão direito do mouse.

Add books from a single folder: Opens a file chooser dialog and allows you to specify which books in a folder should be added. This action is context sensitive, i.e. it depends on which catalog you have selected. If you have selected the Library, books will be added to the library. If you have selected the e-book reader device, the books will be uploaded to the device, and so on.

Adicionar livros de pastas e subpastas: permite-lhe escolher uma pasta. A pasta e todas as suas subpastas serão inspecionadas recursivamente e qualquer livro eletrónico encontrado será adicionado à biblioteca. Pode escolher se o Calibre deve adicionar cada ficheiro existente numa pasta como um registo único de livro ou como vários registos de livros. O Calibre assume que cada pasta contém um único livro: todos os ficheiros de ebook numa mesma pasta são considerados como sendo o mesmo livro mas em diferentes formatos. Esta ação é o inverso da ação Exportar para disco, ou seja, pode usar Exportar para disco, eliminar os livros do Calibre e adicioná-los novamente em modo Livro único por pasta, sem perder informações, exceto a data (isto pressupõe que não tenha alterado nenhuma das configurações da ação Exportar para disco).

Adicionar vários livros a partir de arquivo (ZIP/RAR): Permite adicionar vários ebooks que estejam armazenados em arquivos ZIP ou RAR selecionados. É um atalho conveniente que evita a necessidade de ter de primeiro descomprimir o arquivo e só depois adicionar os livros através de uma das duas opções acima.

Add empty book (Book Entry with no formats): Allows you to create a blank book record. This can be used to then manually fill out the information about a book that you may not have yet in your collection.

Adicionar de ISBN: Permite que você adicione um ou mais livros através de seus códigos ISBN.

Adicionar arquivos para um registro de livro selecionado: Permite a você adicionar ou atualizar os arquivos associados a um livro existente em sua biblioteca.

Add data files to selected book records: Allows you to add any number of extra files that will be stored in a data sub-directory in the book directory. See Adding extra data files to a book for details.

Adicionar um ficheiro vazio aos registos dos livros selecionados: Permite-lhe adicionar um ficheiro vazio, do formato especificado, aos registos dos livros selecionados

The Add books action can read metadata from a wide variety of e-book formats. In addition, it tries to guess metadata from the filename. See the Calcular metadados a partir do nome dos ficheiros section, to learn how to configure this.

Para adicionar um formato adicional para um livro existente você pode fazer uma das três coisas:

Drag and drop the file onto the Book details panel on the right side of the main window

Right click the Add books button and choose Add files to selected books.

Click the Add books button in the top right area of the Edit metadata dialog, accessed by the Editar metadados action.

Editar metadados ¶

emii O :guilabel: ` ação Editar Metadados` tem quatro variações que podem ser acessados por fazer um botão direito do mouse sobre o botão.

Editar metadados individualmente: Permite editar os metadados dos livros, um por um, com a opção de obter metadados da Internet, incluindo capas. Também permite adicionar ou remover formatos específicos de ebook de um livro

Permite editar campos de metadados comuns para um grande número de livros simultaneamente. Ele opera em todos os livros que você selecionou: ref:`Library view

Baixar metadados e capas. Baixar metadados e capas (se disponível) para os livros são selecionados na lista de livros.

Registros de livros direta: Dá-lhe a capacidade de mesclar os metadados e formatos de dois ou mais registros de livros. Você pode optar por excluir ou manter os registros que não foram clicados em primeiro lugar.

Manage data files: Manage the extra data files associated with the selected books.

For more details, see A editar metadados do livro.

Converter livros ¶

cei E-books can be converted from a number of formats into whatever format your e-book reader prefers. Many e-books available for purchase will be protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. calibre will not convert these e-books. It is easy to remove the DRM from many formats, but as this may be illegal, you will have to find tools to liberate your books yourself and then use calibre to convert them.

Para a maioria das pessoas, a conversão deve ser um simples caso de um clique. Se você quer aprender mais sobre o processo de conversão, veja: ref: conversion.

O Converta ação books tem três variações , acessado por fazer um botão direito do mouse sobre o botão.

Converter individualmente: Permite especificar opções de conversão para personalizar a conversão de cada ebooks selecionado.

Conversão em lote: Permite-lhe especificar opções apenas uma vez para converter vários ebooks em lote.

Create a catalog of the books in your calibre library: Allows you to generate a complete listing of the books in your library, including all metadata, in several formats such as XML, CSV, BiBTeX, EPUB and MOBI. The catalog will contain all the books currently showing in the library view. This allows you to use the search features to limit the books to be catalogued. In addition, if you select multiple books using the mouse, only those books will be added to the catalog. If you generate the catalog in an e-book format such as EPUB, MOBI or AZW3, the next time you connect your e-book reader the catalog will be automatically sent to the device. For more information on how catalogs work, read the Criar catálogos de AZW3 • EPUB • MOBI.

Ver ¶

The View action displays the book in an e-book viewer program. calibre has a built-in viewer for many e-book formats. For other formats it uses the default operating system application. You can configure which formats should open with the internal viewer via Preferences → Interface → Behavior. If a book has more than one format, you can view a particular format by doing a right-click on the button.

Enviar para o dispositivo ¶

stdi A :guilabel: ` Enviar para Dispositivo` ação tem oito variações, acessado por fazer um botão direito do mouse sobre o botão.

** Enviar para a memória principal **: os livros selecionados são transferidos para a memória principal do leitor de livros digitais.

** Enviar para o cartão (A) **: Os livros selecionados são transferidos para o cartão de armazenamento (A) do leitor de livros digitais.

** Enviar para o cartão (B) **: Os livros selecionados são transferidos para o cartão de armazenamento (B) do leitor de livros digitais.

Envie no formato específico para: Os livros selecionados serem transferidos para o local de armazenamento selecionado no dispositivo no formato que você especificar.

Ejetar dispositivo: Desconecta o dispositivo do calibre.

** Setar padrão para enviar a ação do dispositivo**: Permite especificar qual das opções de 1 a 5 acima ou 7 abaixo, será a ação padrão quando você clica no botão principal.

Enviar e eliminar da biblioteca: Os livros selecionados são transferidos para o local de armazenamento selecionado no dispositivo e, em seguida, excluídos da biblioteca.

** Buscar anotações (experimental) **: transfere anotações que você pode ter feito em um e-book no seu dispositivo para os metadados de comentários do livro na biblioteca de calibre.

Você pode controlar o nome do arquivo e a estrutura de pastas dos arquivos enviados ao dispositivo, configurando um modelo em Preferences → Import/export → Sending books to devices Veja também: ref: templatelangcalibre.

Obter notícias ¶

fni The Fetch news action downloads news from various websites and converts it into an e-book that can be read on your e-book reader. Normally, the newly created e-book is added to your e-book library, but if an e-book reader is connected at the time the download finishes, the news is also uploaded to the reader automatically.

A ação Fetch news usa receitas simples (10-15 linhas de código) para cada site de notícia. Para aprender como criar receitas para suas próprias fontes de notícias, veja Adicionar o seu sítio de notícias favorito.

A ação Fetch news tem três variações, acessadas através do clique com o botão direito do mouse sobre o botão.

Schedule news download: Allows you to schedule the download of your selected news sources from a list of hundreds available. Scheduling can be set individually for each news source you select and the scheduling is flexible allowing you to select specific days of the week or a frequency of days between downloads.

Add a custom news source: Allows you to create a simple recipe for downloading news from a custom news site that you wish to access. Creating the recipe can be as simple as specifying an RSS news feed URL, or you can be more prescriptive by creating Python-based code for the task. For more information, see Adicionar o seu sítio de notícias favorito.

Fazer download de todas as fontes de notícias agendadas: Faz o calibre iniciar imediatamente o download de todas as fontes de notícias que você selecionou.

Biblioteca ¶

lii A ação Library permite você criar, trocar, renomear e remover uma biblioteca. O calibre permite que você crie quantas bibliotecas desejar. Você pode, por exemplo, criar uma biblioteca de ficção, uma de não ficção, uma de linguagem estrangeira, uma de projetos, ou qualquer outra estrutura que atenda suas necessidades. Bibliotecas são as estruturas organizacionais mais altas dentro do calibre. Cada biblioteca tem seu próprio conjunto de livros, etiquetas, categorias e localização de armazenamento.

**Trocar/criar biblioteca…*: Permite você; a) conectar a uma biblioteca do calibre já existente em outra localização, b) criar uma biblioteca vazia em uma nova localização ou, c) mover a biblioteca atual para uma nova localização.

Troca rápida: permite-lhe alternar entre bibliotecas que tenham sido registadas ou criadas no Calibre.

Renomear biblioteca: Permite mudar o nome da biblioteca.

Escolher livro aleatoriamente: Escolhe um livro para si, ao acaso, da biblioteca

Remover biblioteca: Permite cancelar o registo de uma biblioteca do Calibre.

Permite exportar dados de calibre para migração para um novo computador ou importar dados exportados anteriormente.

<library name>: Actions 7, 8 etc… give you immediate switch access between multiple libraries that you have created or attached to. This list contains only the 5 most frequently used libraries. For the complete list, use the Quick Switch menu.

Manutenção de biblioteca: Permite você verificar os problemas de consistência de dados da biblioteca atual e restaurar a base de dados da biblioteca atual a partir de backups.

Nota

Metadata about your e-books, e.g. title, author, and tags, is stored in a single file in your calibre library folder called metadata.db. If this file gets corrupted (a very rare event), you can lose the metadata. Fortunately, calibre automatically backs up the metadata for every individual book in the book’s folder as an OPF file. By using the Restore database action under Library Maintenance described above, you can have calibre rebuild the metadata.db file from the individual OPF files for you.

Vocẽ pode copiar ou mover livros entre diferentes bibliotecas (caso você tenha mais de uma biblioteca configurada) clicando com o botão direito sobre o livro e selecionando a ação Copy to library.

Dispositivo ¶

dvi A ação Device permite você ver os livros na memória principal ou cartão de memória do seu dispositivo, ou remover o dispositivo (retirá-lo do calibre). Esse ícone aparecerá automaticamente na barra de ferramentas principal do calibre quando você conectar um dispositivo que permita essa operação. Você pode clicar nele para ver os livros do seu dispositivo. Você também pode arrastar e soltar livros da sua biblioteca do calibre para o ícone para transferí-los para o seu dispositivo. Inversamente, você pode arrastar e soltar livros de seus dispositivos para o ícone de biblioteca da sua barra de ferramentas para transferir livros de seu dispositivo para a biblioteca do calibre.

Exportar para disco ¶

svdi A ação Salvar no disco tem 5 variações, acessadas através do clique com o botão direito do mouse sobre o botão.

Save to disk: Saves the selected books to disk organized in folders. The folder structure looks like:
Author_(sort)
    Title
        Book Files
Você pode controlar o nome do arquivo e a estrutura de pastas dos arquivos salvos no disco, configurando um modelo em: guilabel: Preferências-> Importar / Exportar-> Salvar livros no disco Also see A linguagem de modelos do Calibre.

Save to disk in a single folder: Saves the selected books to disk in a single folder.

Para 1. e 2., todos os formatos disponíveis, assim como seus metadatos, são armazenados no disco para cada livro selecionado. Metadados são armazenados em um arquivo OPF. Livros salvos podem ser re-importados para a biblioteca sem nenhuma perda de informação através da ação Adicionar livros.

Save only *<your preferred>* format to disk: Saves the selected books to disk in the folder structure as shown in (1.) but only in your preferred e-book format. You can set your preferred format in Preferences → Interface → Behaviour → Preferred output format

Save only *<your preferred>* format to disk in a single folder: Saves the selected books to disk in a single folder but only in your preferred e-book format. You can set your preferred format in Preferences → Interface → Behaviour → Preferred output format

Save single format to disk…: Saves the selected books to disk in the folder structure as shown in (1.) but only in the format you select from the popup list.

Remover livros ¶

rbi The Remove books action deletes books permanently, so use it with care. It is context sensitive, i.e. it depends on which catalog you have selected. If you have selected the Library, books will be removed from the library. If you have selected the e-book reader device, books will be removed from the device. To remove only a particular format for a given book use the Editar metadados action. Remove books also has five variations which can be accessed by doing a right-click on the button.

** Remover livros selecionados : Permite-lhe remover **de forma definitiva todos os livros que estejam selecionados na lista de livros.

Remover ficheiros de um formato específico dos livros selecionados…: Permite-lhe eliminar de forma permanente ficheiros de ebook, com o formato especificado, dos livros que estejam selecionados na lista de livros

Remove all formats from selected books, except…: Allows you to permanently remove e-book files of any format except a specified format from books that are selected in the book list.

** Remover todos os formatos dos livros selecionados **: permite-lhe remover para sempre todos os ficheiros de ebook dos livros selecionados na lista de livros. Apenas permanecerão os metadados.

Remover capas dos livros selecionados: Permite-lhe remover de forma definitiva ficheiros de capas de livros que estejam selecionados na lista de livros.

** Remover livros correspondentes do dispositivo **: permite remover arquivos de livros eletrônicos de um dispositivo conectado que corresponda aos livros selecionados na lista de livros.

Restore recently deleted: Allows you to undo the removal of books or formats.

Nota

Note that when you use Remove books to delete books from your calibre library, the book record is deleted, but the books are temporarily stored, for a few days, in a trash folder. You can undo the delete by right clicking the Remove books button and choosing to Restore recently deleted books.

Preferências ¶

cbi A ação Preferences permite você mudar a forma que o calibre funciona. Existem quatro variações, acessados clicando com o botão direito do mouse no botão.

Preferências: Permite você mudar a forma que o calibre funciona. Clicando no botão também executa essa ação.

** Executar assistente de boas-vindas **: Permite iniciar o: guilabel: Assistente de boas-vindas, que apareceu na primeira vez em que você iniciou o calibre.

Obtenha plugins para melhorar o calibre: Abre uma nova janela que mostra plugins para o calibre. Esses plugins são desenvolvidos por terceiros para estender a funcionalidade do calibre.

Reiniciar modo de depuração: Permite ativar um modo de depuração que pode ajudar os desenvolvedores do calibre na resolução de problemas que você encontra com o programa. Para a maioria dos usuários, este deve permanecer desativado a menos que instruído por um desenvolvedor para habilitá-lo.

Catálogos ¶

Um catálogo é uma coleção de livros. O Calibre aceita dois tipos de catálogos:

Biblioteca: É uma coleção de livros armazenada na biblioteca do Calibre no seu computador.

Device: This is a collection of books stored in your e-book reader. It will be available when you connect the reader to your computer.

Many operations, such as adding books, deleting, viewing, etc., are context sensitive. So, for example, if you click the View button when you have the Device catalog selected, calibre will open the files on the device to view. If you have the Library catalog selected, files in your calibre library will be opened instead.

Pesquisar e ordenar ¶

A secção Pesquisar e Ordenar permite-lhe executar diversas ações poderosas nas suas coleções de livros.

Você pode ordená-los por título, autor, data, classificação, etc., clicando nos títulos das colunas. Você também pode sub-tipo, ou seja, tipo em várias colunas. Por exemplo, se você clicar na coluna de título e, em seguida, a coluna de autor, o livro será classificada pelo autor e, em seguida, todas as entradas para o mesmo autor será classificado pelo título.

You can search for a particular book or set of books using the Search bar. More on that below.

You can quickly and conveniently edit metadata by selecting the entry you want changed in the list and pressing the E key.

You can perform Ações on sets of books. To select multiple books you can either:

Mantenha a tecla Ctrl pressionada e clique nos livros que deseja selecionar.

Mantenha a tecla Shift pressionada e clique nos livros inicial e final de uma série de livros que deseje ter selecionados.

Você pode configurar quais campos quer mostrar usando a caixa de diálogo :ref:”configuration”

To perform complex multiple column based sub-sorting add the Sort by tool to a toolbar via Preferences → Toolbars & menus.

A interface de pesquisa ¶

You can search all book metadata by entering search terms in the Search bar. For example:

Asimov Foundation format:lrf

Isso irá corresponder a todos os livros em sua biblioteca que têm «Asimov» e «Fundação» em seus metadados e estão disponíveis no formato LRF. Mais alguns exemplos

author:Asimov and not series:Foundation
title:"The Ring" or "This book is about a ring"
format:epub publisher:feedbooks.com

Search kinds

There are four search kinds: contains, equality, regular expression (see regular expressions), and character variant. You choose the search kind with a prefix character.

“Contains” searches

Searches with no prefix character are contains and are by default case insensitive. An item matches if the search string appears anywhere in the indicated metadata. You can make contains searches case sensitive by checking the option Case sensitive searching in Preferences / Searching. If the search option Unaccented characters match accented characters and punctuation is ignored is checked then a character will match all its variants (e.g., e matches é, è, ê, and ë) and all punctuation and whitespace are ignored. For example, if the Unaccented characters match … option is checked then given the two book titles:

Big, Bothéred, and Bad

Big Bummer

then these searches find:

title:"er" matches both (“e” matches both “é” and “e”).

title:"g " matches both because spaces are ignored.

title:"g," matches both because the comma is ignored.

title:"gb" matches both because “, “ is ignored in book 1 and spaces are ignored in book 2.

title:"g b" matches both because comma and space are ignored.

title:"db" matches #1 because the space in “and Bad” is ignored.

title:"," matches both (it actually matches all books) because commas are ignored.

If the Unaccented characters match … option is not checked then character variants, punctuation, and spacing are all significant.

You can set only one of the search options Case sensitive searching and Unaccented characters match accented characters and punctuation is ignored.

“Equality” searches

Equality searches are indicated by prefixing the search string with an equals sign (=). For example, the query tag:"=science" will match science, but not science fiction or hard science. Character variants are significant: é doesn’t match e.

Two variants of equality searches are used for hierarchical items (e.g., A.B.C): hierarchical prefix searches and hierarchical component searches. The first, indicated by a single period after the equals (=.) matches the initial parts of a hierarchical item. The second, indicated by two periods after the equals (=..) matches an internal name in the hierarchical item. Examples, using the tag History.Military.WWII as the value:

tags:"=.History" : True. History is a prefix of the tag.

tags:"=.History.Military" : True. History.Military is a prefix of the tag.

tags:"=.History.Military.WWII" : True. History.Military.WWII is a prefix of the tag, albeit an improper one.

tags:"=.Military" : False. Military is not a prefix of the tag.

tags:"=.WWII" : False. WWII is not a prefix of the tag.

tags:"=..History" : True. The hierarchy contains the value History.

tags:"=..Military" : True. The hierarchy contains the value Military.

tags:"=..WWII" : True. The hierarchy contains the value WWII.

tags:"=..Military.WWII" : False. The .. search looks for single values.

“Regular expression” searches

Regular expression searches are indicated by prefixing the search string with a tilde (~). Any Python-compatible regular expression can be used. Backslashes used to escape special characters in regular expressions must be doubled because single backslashes will be removed during query parsing. For example, to match a literal parenthesis you must enter \\( or alternatively use super-quotes (see below). Regular expression searches are “contains” searches unless the expression is anchored. Character variants are significant: ~e doesn’t match é.

“Character variant” searches

Character variant searches are indicated by prefixing the search string with a caret (^). This search is similar to the contains search (above) except that:

letter case is always ignored.

character variants always match each other.

punctuation and whitespace are always significant.

The search options Unaccented characters match accented characters and punctuation is ignored and Case sensitive searching are ignored. They have no effect on this search’s behavior.

The following compares this search to a contains search assuming the Unaccented characters match… option is checked (see above) given the same two book titles:

Big, Bothéred, and Bad

Big Bummer

then these character variant searches find:

title:"^er" matches both (“e” matches both “é” and “e”)

title:"^g" matches both

title:"^g " matches #2 because the space is significant

title:"^g," matches #1 because the comma is significant

title:"^gb" matches nothing because space and comma are significant

title:"^g b" matches #2 because the comma is significant

title:"^db" matches nothing

title:"^," matches #1 (instead of all books) because the comma is significant

Search Expression Syntax

A search expression is a sequence of search terms optionally separated by the operators and and or. If two search terms occur without a separating operator, and is assumed. The and operator has priority over the or operator; for example the expression a or b and c is the same as a or (b and c). You can use parenthesis to change the priority; for example (a or b) and c to make the or evaluate before the and. You can use the operator not to negate (invert) the result of evaluating a search expression. Examples:

not tag:foo finds all books that don’t contain the tag foo

not (author:Asimov or author:Weber) finds all books not written by either Asimov or Weber.

The above examples show examples of search terms. A basic search term is a sequence of characters not including spaces, quotes ("), backslashes (\), or parentheses (( )). It can be optionally preceded by a column name specifier: the lookup name of a column followed by a colon (:), for example author:Asimov. If a search term must contain a space then the entire term must be enclosed in quotes, as in title:"The Ring". If the search term must contain quotes then they must be escaped with backslashes. For example, to search for a series named The «Ball» and The «Chain», use:

series:"The \"Ball\" and The \"Chain\"

If you need an actual backslash, something that happens frequently in regular expression searches, use two of them (\\).

It is sometimes hard to get all the escapes right so the result is what you want, especially in regular expression and template searches. In these cases use the super-quote: """sequence of characters""". Super-quoted characters are used unchanged: no escape processing is done.

More information

To search for a string that begins with an equals, tilde, or caret; prefix the string with a backslash.

Enclose search strings with quotes (») if the string contains parenthesis or spaces. For example, to find books with the tag Science Fiction you must search for tag:"=science fiction". If you search for tag:=science fiction you will find all books with the tag science and the word fiction in any metadata.

You can build advanced search queries easily using the Advanced search dialog accessed by clicking the button on the left of the search box.

Available fields for searching are: tag, title, author, publisher, series, series_index, rating, cover, comments, format, identifiers, date, pubdate, search, size, vl and custom columns. If a device is plugged in, the ondevice field becomes available, when searching the calibre library view. To find the search name (actually called the lookup name) for a custom column, hover your mouse over the column header in the library view.

Dates

A sintaxe para pesquisar datas é:

pubdate:>2000-1 Will find all books published after Jan, 2000
date:<=2000-1-3 Will find all books added to calibre before 3 Jan, 2000
pubdate:=2009 Will find all books published in 2009

If the date is ambiguous then the current locale is used for date comparison. For example, in an mm/dd/yyyy locale 2/1/2009 is interpreted as 1 Feb 2009. In a dd/mm/yyyy locale it is interpreted as 2 Jan 2009. Some special date strings are available. The string today translates to today’s date, whatever it is. The strings yesterday and thismonth (or the translated equivalent in the current language) also work. In addition, the string daysago (also translated) can be used to compare to a date some number of days ago. For example:

date:>10daysago
date:<=45daysago

To avoid potential problems with translated strings when using a non-English version of calibre, the strings _today, _yesterday, _thismonth, and _daysago are always available. They are not translated.

Searching dates and numeric values with relational comparisons

Dates and numeric fields support the relational operators = (equals), > (greater than), >= (greater than or equal to), < (less than), <= (less than or equal to), and != (not equal to). Rating fields are considered to be numeric. For example, the search rating:>=3 will find all books rated 3 or higher.

You can search for books that have a format of a certain size like this:

size:>1.1M will find books with a format larger than 1.1MB

size:<=1K will find books with a format smaller than or equal to 1KB

You can search for the number of items in multiple-valued fields such as tags using the character # then using the same syntax as numeric fields. For example, to find all books with more than 4 tags use tags:#>4. To find all books with exactly 10 tags use tags:#=10.

Series indices

Series indices are searchable. For the standard series, the search name is series_index. For custom series columns, use the column search name followed by _index. For example, to search the indices for a custom series column named #my_series, you would use the search name #my_series_index. Series indices are numbers, so you can use the relational operators described above.

Saved searches

The special field search is used for saved searches. If you save a search with the name «My spouse’s books» you can enter search:"My spouse's books" in the Search bar to reuse the saved search. More about saving searches below.

Virtual libraries

The special field vl is used to search for books in a Virtual library. For example, vl:Read will find all the books in the Read Virtual library. The search vl:Read and vl:"Science Fiction" will find all the books that are in both the Read and Science Fiction virtual libraries. The value following vl: must be the name of a Virtual library. If the Virtual library name contains spaces then surround it with quotes.

Whether a field has a value

You can search for the absence or presence of a value for a field using «true» and «false». For example:

cover:false finds all books without a cover

series:true finds all books that are in a series

series:false finds all books that are not in a series

comments:false finds all books with an empty comment

formats:false finds all books with no book files (empty records)

Yes/no custom columns

Searching Yes/no custom columns for false, empty, or blank will find all books with undefined values in the column. Searching for true will find all books that do not have undefined values in the column. Searching for yes or checked will find all books with Yes in the column. Searching for no or unchecked will find all books with No in the column. Note that the words yes, no, blank, empty, checked and unchecked are translated; you can use either the current language’s equivalent word or the English word. The words true and false and the special values _yes, _no, and _empty are not translated.

Identifiers

Identifiers (e.g., ISBN, DOI, LCCN, etc.) use an extended syntax. An identifier has the form type:value, as in isbn:123456789. The extended syntax permits you to specify independently the type and value to search for. Both the type and the value parts of the query can use any of the search kinds. Examples:

“identificadores: verdadeiro” encontrarão livros com qualquer identificador.

“identificadores: falso” encontrarão livros sem identificador.

identifiers:123 will search for books with any type having a value containing 123.

identifiers:=123456789 will search for books with any type having a value equal to 123456789.

identifiers:=isbn: irá encontrar livros que tenham um tipo para ISBN com um valor qualquer.

identifiers:=isbn:false irá encontrar livros que não tenham um tipo para ISBN.

identifiers:=isbn:123 irá encontrar livros que tenham um tipo para ISBN com um valor contendo 123.

identifiers:=isbn:=123456789 irá encontrar livros que tenham um tipo para ISBN com um valor igual a 123456789.

identifiers:i:1 will find books with a type containing an i having a value containing a 1.

Categories visible in the Tag browser

The search in_tag_browser:true finds all books that are in categories (tags, authors, etc.) currently shown in the Tag browser. This is useful if you set the two preferences Preferences → Look & feel → Tag browser → Hide empty categories and Find shows all items that match. With those two preferences set, doing a Find in the Tag browser shows only categories containing items matched by the Find. Then, the search in_tag_browser:true additionally finds books with these categories / items. You can easily run this search by pressing the key Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F or clicking the configure button in the Tag browser and choosing the Show only books that have visible categories entry.

Search using templates

You can search using a template in A linguagem de modelos do Calibre instead of a metadata field. To do so you enter a template, a search type, and the value to search for. The syntax is:

template: (the template) #@#: (search type) : (the value)

The template is any valid calibre template language template. The search type must be one of t (text search), d (date search), n (numeric search), or b (set/not set (boolean)). The value is whatever you want, and can use the search kinds described above for the various search types. You must quote the entire search string if there are spaces anywhere in it.

Exemplos:

template:"program: connected_device_name('main')#@#:t:kindle" – is true when the kindle device is connected.

template:"program: select(formats_sizes(), 'EPUB')#@#:n:>1000000" – finds books with EPUB files larger than 1 MB.

template:"program: select(formats_modtimes('iso'), 'EPUB')#@#:d:>10daysago" – finds books with EPUB files newer than 10 days ago.

template:"""program: book_count('tags:^"' & $series & '"', 0) != 0#@#:n:1""" – finds all books containing the series name in the tags. This example uses super-quoting because the template uses both single quotes (') and double quotes (") when constructing the search expression.

You can build template search queries easily using the Advanced search dialog accessed by clicking the button . You can test templates on specific books using the calibre Template tester, which can be added to the toolbars or menus via Preferences → Toolbars & menus. It can also be assigned a keyboard shortcut via Preferences → Shortcuts.

Advanced search dialog

_images/search.png — Advanced search dialog¶

A guardar pesquisas ¶

calibre allows you to save a frequently used search under a special name and then reuse that search with a single click. To do this, create your search either by typing it in the Search bar or using the Tag browser. Then type the name you would like to give to the search in the Saved Searches box next to the Search bar. Click the plus icon next to the saved searches box to save the search.

Now you can access your saved search in the Tag browser under Saved searches. A single click will allow you to reuse any arbitrarily complex search easily, without needing to re-create it.

A pesquisar texto integral em todos os livros ¶

calibre can optionally index the full text of books in the library to allow for instant searching of words inside any book. To use this functionality click the FT button at the left edge of the search bar.

Then, enable indexing for the current library. Once indexing is complete you can search all the text in the full library. When you add new books to the library, they will be automatically indexed in the background. This search allows you to quickly find all books that contain a word or combination of words. You can even search for words that occur near other words, as shown in the examples in the search popup window. Note that this search tool will find only one occurrence of the search query in a particular book, not list every occurrence, for that it is best to search inside the book using the calibre E-book viewer.

You can re-index an individual book by right clicking on the Book details panel in calibre and choosing Re-index this book for full text searching.

Bibliotecas virtuais ¶

A Virtual library is a way to pretend that your calibre library has only a few books instead of its full collection. This is an excellent way to partition your large collection of books into smaller, manageable chunks. To learn how to create and use Virtual libraries, see the tutorial: Bibliotecas virtuais.

Temporarily marking books ¶

You can temporarily mark arbitrary sets of books. Marked books will have a pin on them and can be found with the search marked:true. To mark a book press Ctrl+M or go to Preferences → Toolbars & menus and add the Mark books button to the main toolbar.

You can mark books with a specific text label by right clicking the Mark books button and choosing Mark books with text label. Books marked with text labels can later be found using the search marked:"=the-text-you-entered".

Calcular metadados a partir do nome dos ficheiros ¶

Normally, calibre reads metadata from inside the book file. However, it can be configured to read metadata from the file name instead, via Preferences → Import/export → Adding books → Read metadata from file contents.

You can also control how metadata is read from the filename using regular expressions (see Tudo sobre utilização de expressões regulares no Calibre). In the Adding books section of the configuration dialog, you can specify a regular expression that calibre will use to try and guess metadata from the names of e-book files that you add to the library. The default regular expression is:

title - author

that is, it assumes that all characters up to the first - are the title of the book and subsequent characters are the author of the book. For example, the filename:

Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov.txt

será interpretada para ter o título: Fundação e Terra e autor: Isaac Asimov

Dica

Se o nome do ficheiro não contiver um hífen, a expressão regular acima falhará.

Detalhes do livro ¶

The Book details display shows the cover and all the metadata for the currently selected book. It can be hidden via the Layout button in the lower right corner of the main calibre window. The author names shown in the Book details panel are click-able, they will by default take you to the Wikipedia page for the author. This can be customized by right clicking on the author name and selecting Manage this author.

Similarly, if you download metadata for the book, the Book details panel will automatically show you links pointing to the web pages for the book on Amazon, WorldCat, etc. from where the metadata was downloaded.

You can right click on individual e-book formats in the Book details panel to delete them, compare them to their original versions, save them to disk, open them with an external program, etc.

You can change the cover of the book by simply drag and dropping an image onto the Book details panel. If you wish to edit the cover image in an external program, simply right click on it and choose Open with.

You can also add e-book files to the current book by drag and dropping the files onto the Book details panel.

Double clicking the Book details panel will open it up in a separate popup window.

Finally, you can customize exactly what information is displayed in the Book details panel via Preferences → Interface → Look & feel → Book details.

Navegador de conteúdos ¶

The Tag browser allows you to easily browse your collection by Author/Tags/Series/etc. If you click on any item in the Tag browser, for example the author name Isaac Asimov, then the list of books to the right is restricted to showing books by that author. You can click on category names as well. For example, clicking on «Series» will show you all books in any series.

The first click on an item will restrict the list of books to those that contain or match the item. Continuing the above example, clicking on Isaac Asimov will show books by that author. Clicking again on the item will change what is shown, depending on whether the item has children (see sub-categories and hierarchical items below). Continuing the Isaac Asimov example, clicking again on Isaac Asimov will restrict the list of books to those not by Isaac Asimov. A third click will remove the restriction, showing all books. If you hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys and click on multiple items, then restrictions based on multiple items are created. For example you could hold Ctrl and click on the tags History and Europe for finding books on European history. The Tag browser works by constructing search expressions that are automatically entered into the Search bar. Looking at what the Tag browser generates is a good way to learn how to construct basic search expressions.

Items in the Tag browser have their icons partially colored. The amount of color depends on the average rating of the books in that category. So for example if the books by Isaac Asimov have an average of four stars, the icon for Isaac Asimov in the Tag browser will be 4/5th colored. You can hover your mouse over the icon to see the average rating.

The outer-level items in the Tag browser, such as Authors and Series, are called categories. You can create your own categories, called User categories, which are useful for organizing items. For example, you can use the User categories editor (click the Configure button at the lower-left of the Tag browser and choose Manage authors, tags, etc → User categories) to create a User category called Favorite Authors, then put the items for your favorites into the category. User categories can have sub-categories. For example, the User category Favorites.Authors is a sub-category of Favorites. You might also have Favorites.Series, in which case there will be two sub-categories under Favorites. Sub-categories can be created by right-clicking on a User category, choosing Add sub-category to…, and entering the sub-category name; or by using the User categories editor by entering names like the Favorites example above.

You can search User categories in the same way as built-in categories, by clicking on them. There are four different searches cycled through by clicking:

«tudo com correspondência a um item na categoria» indicado por um único sinal de mais em verde.
«tudo com correspondência a um item na categoria ou suas subcategorias» indicado por dois sinais de mais em verde.
«tudo sem correspondência a um item na categoria» mostrado por um único sinal de menos em vermelho.
«tudo sem correspondência a um item na categoria ou suas subcategorias» mostrado por dois sinais de menos em vermelho.

It is also possible to create hierarchies inside some of the text categories such as tags, series, and custom columns. These hierarchies show with the small triangle, permitting the sub-items to be hidden. To use hierarchies of items in a category, you must first go to Preferences → Interface → Look & feel and enter the category name(s) into the «Categories with hierarchical items» field. Once this is done, items in that category that contain periods will be shown using the small triangle. For example, assume you create a custom column called «Genre» and indicate that it contains hierarchical items. Once done, items such as Mystery.Thriller and Mystery.English will display as Mystery with the small triangle next to it. Clicking on the triangle will show Thriller and English as sub-items. See Managing subgroups of books, for example «genre» for more information.

Hierarchical items (items with children) use the same four “click-on” searches as User categories. Items that do not have children use two of the searches: «everything matching» and «everything not matching».

You can drag and drop items in the Tag browser onto User categories to add them to that category. If the source is a User category, holding the Shift key while dragging will move the item to the new category. You can also drag and drop books from the book list onto items in the Tag browser; dropping a book on an item causes that item to be automatically applied to the dropped books. For example, dragging a book onto Isaac Asimov will set the author of that book to Isaac Asimov. Dropping it onto the tag History will add the tag History to the book’s tags.

You can easily find any item in the Tag browser by clicking the search button at the lower-right corner. In addition, you can right click on any item and choose one of several operations. Some examples are to hide it, rename it, or open a «Manage x» dialog that allows you to manage items of that kind. For example, the Manage authors dialog allows you to rename authors and control how their names are sorted.

Pode controlar o modo como os itens são ordenados no navegador de conteúdos através do botão: guilabel:”Configurar` no canto inferior esquerdo do navegador de conteúdos. Pode optar por classificar por nome, classificação média ou popularidade (popularidade é o número de livros com pelo menos um item na sua biblioteca. Por exemplo, a popularidade de Isaac Asimov é o número de livros de Isaac Asimov na sua biblioteca).

Grelha de capas ¶

You can have calibre display a grid of book covers instead of a list of books, if you prefer to browse your collection by covers instead. The Cover grid is activated by clicking the Layout button in the bottom right corner of the main calibre window. You can customize the cover sizes and the background of the Cover grid via Preferences → Interface → Look & feel → Cover grid. You can even have calibre display any specified field under the covers, such as title or authors or rating or a custom column of your own devising.

Navegador de capas ¶

In addition to the Cover grid described above, you can also have calibre display covers in the single row. This is activated via the Layout button in the lower right corner of the main window. In Preferences → Interface → Look & feel → Cover browser you can change the number of covers displayed, and even have the Cover browser display itself in a separate popup window.

Adding notes for authors, series, etc.¶

You can add notes for an author/series/tag/publisher/etc. to your calibre library. To do so right click on the author name in the Tag browser on the left or the Book details panel on the right and choose Create note or Edit note.

A simple popup window will allow you to enter your notes using basic formatting and supporting links and images. Once a note for an author is created, it can be viewed easily from the Book details panel by clicking the little pencil icon next to the author name.

You can search through all the notes in your library using the Browse notes tool by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N or adding it to the toolbar via Preferences → Toolbars & menus.

Visualização Rápida ¶

Sometimes you want to select a book and quickly get a list of books with the same value in some category (authors, tags, publisher, series, etc.) as the currently selected book, but without changing the current view of the library. You can do this with Quickview. Quickview opens either a second window or a panel in the book list showing the list of books matching the value of interest. For example, assume you want to see a list of all the books with the one or more of the authors of the currently-selected book. Click in the author cell you are interested in and press the “Q” key or click the Quickview icon in the Layout section of the calibre window. A window or panel will open with all the authors for that book on the left, and all the books by the selected author on the right.

Alguns exemplos de uso da visualização rápida: Ver se outros livros

have some tag(s) applied to the currently selected book,
está na mesma série que o livro atual
tem os mesmos valores, numa coluna personalizada, que o livro atual
foram escritos por um dos mesmos autores do livro atual
partilhar valores numa coluna personalizada

There are two choices for where the Quickview information appears:

It can open «undocked»: on top of the calibre window and will stay open until you explicitly close it.

It can open «docked»: as a panel in the book list section of the calibre main window.

You can move the window from docked to undocked as desired using the «Dock/Undock» button.

The Quickview panel can be left open permanently, in which case it follows movements on the book list. For example, if you click in the calibre library view on a category column (tags, series, publisher, authors, etc.) for a book, the Quickview window contents will change to show you in the left-hand side panel the values in that category for the selected book (e.g., the tags for that book). The first item in that list will be selected, and Quickview will show you on the right-hand side panel all the books in your library that use that value. Click on an different value in the left-hand panel to see the books with that different value.

Double-click on a book in the Quickview window to select that book in the library view. This will also change the items display in the QuickView window (the left-hand panel) to show the items in the newly-selected book.

Shift- or Ctrl- double-click on a book in the Quickview window to open the edit metadata dialog on that book in the calibre window. The edited book will be Quickview’ed when you close the edit metadata dialog.

Você pode ver se uma coluna pode ser vista na Visualização Rápida passando o mouse sobre o cabeçalho da coluna e olhando no seu tooltip. Você pode também descobrir clicando com o botão direito do mouse no cabeçalho da coluna para ver se a opção «Visualização rápida» é mostrado, e selecionando essa opção é equivalente a pressionar “Q” na célula atual.

Options (in Preferences → Look & feel → Quickview):

Respeitar (ou não) a biblioteca virtual atual. Se assinalado, a vista rápida mostra apenas livros na biblioteca virtual atual. Predefinição: Respeitar bibliotecas virtuais

Change the Quickview window contents when the column is changed on the book list using the cursor keys. Default: don’t follow changes made with cursor keys

Change the column being «quickview’ed» when a cell in the Quickview window is double-clicked. Otherwise the book is changed but the column being examined is not. Default: change the column

Change the column being «quickview’ed» to the current column when the return key is pressed in the Quickview panel. Otherwise the book is changed but the column being examined is not. Default: change the column

Choose which columns are shown in the Quickview window/panel.

Processos ¶

The Jobs panel shows the number of currently running jobs. Jobs are tasks that run in a separate process. They include converting e-books and talking to your reader device. You can click on the jobs panel to access the list of jobs. Once a job has completed you can see a detailed log from that job by double-clicking it in the list. This is useful to debug jobs that may not have completed successfully.

Atalhos de teclado ¶

calibre has several keyboard shortcuts to save you time and mouse movement. These shortcuts are active in the book list view (when you’re not editing the details of a particular book), and most of them affect the title you have selected. The calibre E-book viewer has its own shortcuts which can be customised in the viewer Preferences.

Nota

Note: The calibre keyboard shortcuts do not require a modifier key (Command, Option, Control, etc.), unless specifically noted. You only need to press the letter key, e.g. E to edit.

Atalhos de teclado para o programa Calibre¶
Atalho de teclado	Ação
`F2 (Enter for macOS)`	Editar os metadados do campo atualmente selecionado na lista de livros.
`A`	Adicionar Livros
`Shift+A`	Adicionar formatos aos livros selecionados
`C`	Converter livros selecionados
`D`	Enviar para o dispositivo
`Del`	Remover livros selecionados
`E`	Editar metadados dos livros selecionados
`G`	Obter livros
`I`	Mostrar detalhes do livro
`K`	Editar índice
`M`	Fundir os registos selecionados
`Alt+M`	Fundir os registos selecionados mas manter os originais
`O`	Abrir a pasta com o conteúdo
`P`	Refinar livros
`S`	Exportar para disco
`T`	Editar livro
`V`	Ver
`Shift+V`	Ver o último livro lido
`Alt+V/Cmd+V for macOS`	Ver formato específico
`Alt+Shift+J`	Alternar lista de processos
`Alt+Shift+B`	Alternar visualizador de capas
`Alt+Shift+D`	Toggle Book details panel
`Alt+Shift+T`	Alternar navegador de conteúdos
`Alt+Shift+G`	Alternar grelha de capas
`Alt+A`	Mostrar livros do mesmo autor que o livro atual
`Alt+T`	Mostrar livros com as mesmas etiquetas do livro atual
`Alt+P`	Mostrar livros publicados pela mesma editora do livro atual
`Alt+Shift+S`	Mostrar livros na mesma série do livro atual
`/, Ctrl+F`	Foco na barra de pesquisa
`Shift+Ctrl+F`	Open the Advanced search dialog
`Shift+Alt+F`	Toggle the Search bar
`Esc`	Limpar a pesquisa atual
`Shift+Esc`	Focar a lista de livros
`Ctrl+Esc`	Limpar a biblioteca virtual
`Alt+Esc`	Limpar as restrições adicionais
`Ctrl+*`	Cria uma biblioteca virtual temporária a partir da pesquisa atual
`Ctrl+Right`	Selecionar a aba seguinte das bibliotecas virtuais
`Ctrl+Left`	Selecionar a aba anterior das bibliotecas virtuais
`N ou F3`	Ache o próximo livro que corresponde com os parâmetros atuais de pesquisa (funciona somente se o destaque da busca estiver ligado nas preferências de busca)
`Shift+N ou Shift+F3`	Ache o livro anterior que corresponde com os parâmetros atuais de pesquisa (funciona somente se o destaque da busca estiver ligado nas preferências de busca)
`Ctrl+D`	Descarregar metadados e capas
`Ctrl+R`	Reiniciar Calibre
`Ctrl+Shift+R`	Reiniciar o Calibre em modo de depuração
`Shift+Ctrl+E`	Adicionar livros vazios ao Calibre
`Ctrl+M`	Toggle mark/unmarked status on selected books
`Ctrl+/` or `Ctrl+Alt+F`	Open the popup to search the full text of all books in the library
`Q`	Abra a janela flutuante da Vista rápida para ver livros em séries/etiquetas/etc relacionadas.
`Shift+Q`	Foco no painel de visualização rápida aberto
`Shift+S`	Realiza uma pesquisa no painel de vista rápida
`F5`	Reaplicar a ordenação atual
`Ctrl+Q`	Sair do Calibre
`X`	Toggle auto scroll of the book list
`Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F`	Restrict the displayed books to only those books that are in a category currently displayed in the Tag browser
`B`	Browse annotations (highlights and bookmarks) made in the calibre E-book viewer for all books in the library
`Ctrl+Shift+N`	Browse notes associated with authors/series/tags/etc.
`Alt+Shift+L`	Alternar disposição entre vista larga e estreita