The CBZ / CBR file is there immediatly, however, and you can see it if you right-click a book with a ZIP format and click 'Open containing folder'. For some reason, the formats are not added immediatly in the UI in calibre, to see them show up you will need to reboot calibre.TO CONVERT AMAZON / KOBO COMICS / MANGA TO ZIP YOU WILL NEED THE APROPRIATE KFX INPUT / OBOK PLUGIN / WHATEVER PLUGIN YOU USE TO REMOVE DRM.YOU CAN'T FORCE IT TO RUN MANUALLY, YOU HAVE TO ADD OR CONVERT A BOOK. If such books are found and there is no corresponding CBZ or CBR file, it will create it. Simply convert your comics / manga to ZIP output through calibre.Īfter it is installed, each time a book is added or converted in your active library, this plugin will parse all books in your active library (THE WHOLE LIBRARY) and check for all books that have either a ZIP or RAR format. You can then export these to your CBZ / CBR compatible e-readers / tablets / phones to read them and be able to get a nicer resolution when zooming in. This plugin will copy it and rename the extension to CBZ / CBR. As such I did a quick plugin to make the process of converting comics / manga and sending them on devices smoother.Ĭonvert all your non-cbz and non-cbr comics / manga to ZIP through calibre. Calibre already had an output profile for ZIP, but not CBZ, and there didn't seem to be any utility to quickly switch the extension before sending to a device. Whenever I zoomed on an image, the text was unclear and on my Kobo Clara HD I couldn't even zoom on it because it seems to only allow zooming on CBZ / CBR files. I made this plugin because I was annoyed at the very low resolution of comics / manga that were converted (from kindle / AZW) to EPUB through calibre. Simple plugin that will convert all ZIP / RAR format books in the active library to CBZ /CBR automatically each time a book is added / imported / converted.

Convert mobi to cbr or cbz