# Calibre/Droid Issue

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calibre-droid-issue/576881>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 1, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calibre-droid-issue/576881 "2011-04-01T23:11:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calibre-droid-issue/576881/1 "2011-04-01T23:11:07Z")

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I am tired of having to rummage around in aldiko when I am reading an entire series [the damned honor harrington series has about a dozen books] so I downloaded them in RTF from my library at Baen, stitched them together in wordpad, and used calibre to convert to epub. I can read it on my computer, but can not seem to get my damned droid to recognize it when I transfer it to my ebook folder on my droid.

Any suggestions? Any ‘original format’ epub files on my computer that I drag into my droid when linked seems to work just fine, I suppose I could try popping it up on a file page and downloading it using the internet function on the droid [i have downloaded stuff off the baen site and the feedbook site and it works just fine]

Keep in mind what I know about computers can be summed up as ‘if i cant point and click or use a wizard, i cant do it’ and I feel that computer repair people are not using tools but sacrificing chickens in the back room and using voodoo to repair these damned things.

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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calibre-droid-issue/576881/2 "2011-04-02T00:59:35Z")

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Calibre doesn’t properly do some things when creating ePub files. [epubcheck](http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/) will tell you what problems exist. If you need help fixing them, let us know. I can probably find time to take a look at your specific file if you e-mail me this weekend.