📚 Calibre Plugins – arXiv Search

A Calibre plugin that lets you search, preview, and download academic papers from arXiv.org directly into your Calibre library.

Fetch HTML versions of papers, convert them to EPUB, and import them with complete metadata automatically.

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Search arXiv by keywords
• 🗂️ Card-based results view for easy browsing
• 📑 Preview paper details: title, authors, abstract
• 📥 Fetch HTML versions of selected papers
• 📚 Auto-convert to EPUB and add to your library
• 🏷️ Metadata automatically added:
  • Title
  • Authors
  • Publication date
  • Abstract (in comments)
  • arXiv ID
  • arXiv tag

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📦 Installation

Method 1: GUI (Recommended)

1. Download the plugin .zip file
2. Open Calibre
3. Go to Preferences → Plugins
4. Click Load plugin from file → Select the .zip
5. Restart Calibre

Method 2: Command Line

calibre-customize -b /path/to/plugin.zip