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Old 10-29-2022, 08:52 AM   #1
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Calibre - add ZIP/RAR
I have downloaded some books in the rar and zip format but when i try to open them in the Add Books in Calibre they dont appear to add
Can anybody help please?
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Old 10-29-2022, 11:03 AM   #2
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You'll have to extract the books before adding them to Calibre.
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Old 10-29-2022, 02:52 PM   #3
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Hi Sirtel
Sorry for being thick but not sure exactly what you mean by that??
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Old 10-29-2022, 03:04 PM   #4
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These are the formats that Calibre supports...
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...ersion-to-from

rar and zip are not ebook formats, so you need to extract whatever are in the zip and rar files and convert them to ebooks.

But I believe you can add additional file extensions for Calibre to recognise. I've never needed to do that, so I don't know where that is done in Calibre.
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Old 10-29-2022, 05:10 PM   #5
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Sorry for being thick but not sure exactly what you mean by that??
.rar and .zip are compressed folders, not formats. The books themselves are in those folders. You need to open the .rar/.zip folders and copy/move the files inside out of them, before you can add the books to Calibre.
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I have downloaded some books in the rar and zip format but when i try to open them in the Add Books in Calibre they dont appear to add
Can anybody help please?
Did you try the Add books->Add multiple books from archive (ZIP/RAR) option:

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Old 10-29-2022, 06:19 PM   #7
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Shouldn't Archive Extract automatically unzip them? Unless it's disabled or, if I remember right, there's multiple files in the archive.
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Shouldn't Archive Extract automatically unzip them? Unless it's disabled or, if I remember right, there's multiple files in the archive.
Where do I disable Archive Extract?

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Calibre will add RAR or ZIP, as a book, BUT only if it does not contain another archive. eg Baen will send you a Zip with all formats of a book OR your entire order. You need to unwrap the order (level) zip before adding to calibre
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Old 10-29-2022, 10:48 PM   #11
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calibre does various magic with zip/rar archives. If the archive contains only a single file in a known ebook format it is auto extracted. If it contains only image files it is added as a comic (cbz/cbr). These can be disabled by disabling the archive extract plugin.

And if you right click the add books button and choose add multiple books from archive it will even try to add multiple books from an archive.
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Old 10-30-2022, 10:01 AM   #12
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Thanks to all for your helpful replies and especially to kovidgoyal who confimed what a fabulous programme Calibre is and solved my problem quickly and easily
Thanks once again
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