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OpenInkPot 20120301 for the Hanlin V3ext / BeBook One � rebuilt image, tested

forger7 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:46:28 GMT

Hi all,

I recently brought an old Hanlin V3 back to life and wanted OpenInkPot on it, ideally the last daily build of 1 March 2012. The catch: only the image for the original V3 (64 MB) survives on the Wayback Machine. The V3ext image from that day was never archived. Flashing the V3 image on a V3ext gives you a white screen. The kernel boots, but it looks for the root filesystem in the wrong place.

So I rebuilt the missing image. OpenInkPot's own build script treats v3 and v3ext identically except for the kernel flavour, the JFFS2 eraseblock size and one version file. The rebuild therefore takes the 2012 V3 userspace and swaps in the V3ext kernel and modules from the archived V3ext daily of 2010-06-12. That is the same kernel package version, 2.6.29-39. It runs fine on my device.

I also fixed two small annoyances:

Settings → Screen update now works. It was hardcoded to the N516 framebuffer.
In FBReader the page keys now work in landscape mode, for the default 270� rotation.

Download, flashing instructions and the reproducible build script:
https://github.com/Forger7/hanlin-v3ext-openinkpot

Flashing works the usual way:

Put V3update.bin on a FAT16 SD card of at most 1 GB.
Hold "+" while switching on, release it after the beep.

Note that the internal storage gets reformatted. This image is for the V3ext only, which shows about 450�500 MB of internal storage over USB. It is not for the old 9 MB V3.

All credit goes to the OpenInkPot team, all of the software is theirs. I only put the pieces back together.

Firmware 4.38.23852 & 4.46.23852 have been released

DNSB — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:20:42 GMT

Kobo has released firmware 4.38.23852 & 4.46.23852 for all Kobo touch ereaders other than the Mini.

As usual, the What's new notes are a bit vague. Buying books from the device has had some issues with payment verification fixed, unnamed security updates and a mention of StoryGraph.

Accessories New page turner works with Gen 1 Scribe

sparksdls — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:57:13 GMT

Bought one for my 2025 Scribe and it works great - really so much better than the 2-piece turner I have. Forward & backward turns with buttons for display brightness. I tried it on my wife's 1st Gen Scribe and it works just as well with it so I ordered a second one.

Firmware 16.2.2

alva — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:43:33 GMT

Just got an update to 16.2.2 on my Tolino vision 6

Not sure what changed as it is not even listed on the tolino website

Sage Sage Factory Reset Itself Last Night

enuddleyarbl — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:36:14 GMT

Well, thank goodness for Calibre. For some reason, the wife's Sage decided to reset itself sometime last night. At about 0400 hrs, she noticed the LED flashing. The screen wouldn't come on, so she just plugged it in. This morning, I picked it up and it was actually off instead of Sleeping. Powered it on and it greeted me with the "choose your language" screen and went on from there. After it finished the setup and I used Calibre to remove the unwanted Previews and Recommendations it stuck on there, I copied all her books and reading positions back from Calibre. She only lost last night's reading position.

Hopefully, the problem was just a database corruption and not something physically wrong with the thing.

PW2 [Wanted] katadelos popcorn_windows.zip for PW2 MEGREZ (i.MX6SL)

nik1982 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:50:29 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for the original katadelos popcorn_windows.zip for Kindle Paperwhite 2, hardware codename MEGREZ (i.MX6SL, DP75SDI).

Current situation:
- The board can enter SDP mode correctly, VID=15A2 PID=0063
- imx_usb-loader can upload payload and jump successfully
- But the payload I have is wrong: after jump, it enumerates as "Lab126 USB Charger" briefly then drops off, no mass storage USB gadget (gadget init fails, wrong device tree)
- The UART debug pads on my board are physically damaged, so I cannot use serial console to debug or run `ums` command
- I already have the factory raw eMMC image for PW2 MEGREZ, only need the correct Popcorn payload.

If anyone has a backup of the original katadelos popcorn_windows.zip for MEGREZ, please PM me here.

Thank you very much!

Large images cut off at bottom of screen

Siavahda — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:19:39 GMT

I'm using EPUB, not KEPUB, if that's relevant.

I keep running into the issue that images that are supposed to be full-screen don't display properly on my Kobo - part of them is cut off at the bottom.

For example, in the ebook I'm working on at the moment, this is the code around the image

Code:

Here are all the tag settings

Code:

.calibre {

  display: block;

  font-size: 1em;

  padding-left: 0;

  padding-right: 0;

  text-align: justify;

  margin: 0 5pt;

}



.th-c05953c3-9671-47dd-a69a-3ea4b352d3a {

  display: block;

}

.fullpage-image {

  display: block;

  font-family: inherit;

  font-size: 1em;

  font-style: inherit;

  font-variant: inherit;

  font-weight: inherit;

  height: 100%;

  margin-block: 0;

  margin-bottom: 0;

  margin-left: 0;

  margin-right: 0;

  margin-top: 0;

  max-height: 100%;

  position: relative;

  padding: 0;

  border: currentColor none 0;

}

.image-full {

  display: block;

  font-family: inherit;

  font-size: 1em;

  font-style: inherit;

  font-variant: inherit;

  font-weight: inherit;

  height: auto;

  margin-block: 0;

  margin-bottom: 0;

  margin-left: 0;

  margin-right: 0;

  margin-top: 0;

  vertical-align: middle;

  width: 100%;

  padding: 0;

  border: currentColor none 0;

}

.calibre1 {

  font-family: inherit;

  font-size: 1em;

  font-style: inherit;

  font-variant: inherit;

  font-weight: inherit;

  height: auto;

  margin-block: 0;

  margin-bottom: 0;

  margin-left: 0;

  margin-right: 0;

  margin-top: 0;

  max-height: 100%;

  object-fit: contain;

  vertical-align: middle;

  width: 100%;

  padding: 0;

  border: currentColor none 0;

}

The image size is 1600 x 2473.

Can anyone see what the problem is?

mobi file book cannot be open right on calibre

croonable — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:05:18 GMT

so I decided to convert it.

there is epub conversion, AZW3 conversion and pdf conversion.

epub conversion works and can be opened to read.
edit 1: AZW3 works as well

I am still wondering about the mobi version. :help:

Deleting from drop downs

WearyB — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:21:22 GMT

Hi

I have been using Calibre for sometime now and have generally found my way around it.
In one of the columns the drop down menu has become clogged with references that I never use now. Is there any way that I can delete them?

[GUI Plugin] CSV Update Metadata

un_pogaz — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:01:38 GMT

CSV Update Metadata is a small plugin to facilitate the mass updating of the books metadata in your Calibre library.
This plugin also allow to export data of selected books into a CSV.

After load a CSV, select which column from the file to search in a library field to match the books to be updated, and associate which columns to use to update the fields, with different search and update options.

The plugin has the following features:

Export data of selected books
Preview source CSV content
Preview library update
Strong data validation before update
Match options:
- Case insensitive
- Case sensitive
- Calibre search
Tags-like fields options:
- Equal
- Contain
- Subset
Update options:
- Series-type fields include index
- Append value for tags-type fields
- Do not change the case if existing
Limit update to scope:
- Virtual library
- Current search
- Books selection
Tolerate a wide range of differents CSV specifications

This plugin attempt to be a autnomous version and replacement of the similar feature in Job Spy by DaltonST. The only main unported feature is the support of SQL snippet and regex, however this plugin support the use of the Calibre search.

Special Notes:

You can destroy your library using this plugin. Changes are permanent. There is no undo function. You are strongly encouraged to back up your library before proceeding.

Installation
Open Preferences -> Plugins -> Get new plugins and install the "Comments Cleaner" plugin.
You may also download the attached zip file and install the plugin manually, then restart calibre as described in the Introduction to plugins thread

The plugin works for Calibre 5 and later.

Page: GitHub | MobileRead

Note for those who wish to provide a translation:
I am French! Although for obvious reasons, the default language of the plugin is English, keep in mind that already a translation.

Version History:

Spoiler:

Attached Thumbnails

Attached Files

CSV Update Metadata-1.0.0.zip (433.8 KB)

the 'ebook-viewer' app fails to render text

Carlwitthoft — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:13:09 GMT

This is on MacOS, Calibre 9.17.0 . When I try to view an epub doc inside Calibre (which calls 'ebook-viewer.app'), all that displays is the infamous "question mark in a box" that usually indicates a missing font.
I can read the given epub document in any other reader app just fine.
Is this a bug in the latest Calibre, or did I somehow screw up the directory path that Calibre uses to find fonts?

Young Adult St. John, Percy B.: Shore Line sam.PDF V 1.0 29.10.2026

hornhj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:36:20 GMT

Percy Bolingbroke St. John. 1821-1889. (1819 is birth date according to Allibone.) Percy was a son of James Augustus St. John, and a brother of Bayle and Horace. His earliest work seems to have been �Young Naturalists Book of Birds� in 1844. After �The Trapper�s Bride� came out in 1845 he was reviewed in Hood�s Magazine and Comic Miscellany. This was edited by Thomas Hood, author of �Song Of A Shirt,� his son and namesake would become editor of Fun. Hood was dead by the time Percy began writing tales for the magazine in 1846. His first works for Hood�s were short stories, �Caleb Von Dustenberg,� �The Inheritance,� �The Two Travellers� and �The Usurer.� Then he began a short western serial, �White Cloud,� taking place amongst the Seminoles in Florida.

Pseudonym For: Austin, Howard; Brady, Old King, the world-known detective; Clyde, Kit; Doughty, Francis Worcester, -1917; Fenton, Ralph, Colonel; Fox, Tom; Maynard, Robert, Capt.; Raymond, P. T.; Sherman, John
https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/200...1821-1889.html

here as PDF:
>Shore Line sam<

Attached Files

Shore Line Sam_new.pdf (2.84 MB)

Sharing books via email and GMX

anesthezea — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:30:38 GMT

It seems like GMX email is dead. I haven�t been able to login there for some time. I can�t make a new address. Technical support does not respond, and the GMX Reddit has not had a post in a year. Will any other email services work with Calibre�s Sharing books by Email the way GMX did?

Mystery and Crime St. John, Percy B.: Drawer 99 V 1.0 29.10.2026

hornhj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:04:49 GMT

Attached Files

Drawer_99.epub (912.7 KB)

I built a free web reader for PDFs and EPUBs, and I'd love your honest feedback

BenjaminSekayiba — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:56:48 GMT

Hi all, I'm Benjamin, a self-taught developer from Uganda. I'm the maker of Bibrium (bibrium.com), a small web app for reading the PDFs and EPUBs you already own.

What it does today:
- EPUBs open as typeset pages, not an endless scroll
- Highlights that stay with the book
- Shelves to organize your library
- Cloud sync, so your library is there on your PC or tablet

You can sign in with Google, GitHub or email. I built it because my own books were scattered everywhere, and I wanted one calm place to read them.

This forum knows ebooks better than anyone, so please tell me what's missing, what feels wrong, or what would make you actually use it. If you'd like help getting your library set up, reply here or message me and I'll walk you through it.

Thanks for reading.
Benjamin