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I don't have the money/I don't want to spend the money on a new computer, my old one works fine no matter what Micro$oft thinks!.

For a few hundred dollars you can get a brand-new computer that runs Windows 7/8 and does everything you need it to do, with up-to-date software - that includes running the latest version of calibre.But we can safely assume it won't happen again. Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP, not even for security vulnerabilities.

Amazon website changes for metadata download. The backports can and will work to fix other breakage, e.g. Trying to run the new version is too risky, but the old version is broken!ĭo you have a Kobo H2O, the driver for which appeared post-calibre2.x? If so, try this plugin, or run from source as described above, but with my backports described HERE.

Edit the file " src/calibre/gui2/_init_.py" and change the line that says "if isxp:" to "if False:" - this disables the incompatibility error.Ĭalibre 2.x will now run - whether it works remains to be seen. Delete the corresponding folder "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\" and replace it with the one you extracted. It won't install, however, you can extract the Calibre2 folder using lessmsi (has GUI) or directly via the Windows Installer Service.

Download the latest version of calibre.

Follow the directions here to set up a calibre development environment:.

You must run from source - the calibre developers will not support this. As long as your processor supports the SSE2 instruction set, you may very well get lucky. But it *might* work, people *have* reported success.

Insist on running the latest version anyway.

This is the official recommendation, as suggested on the calibre website. It hasn't magically stopped doing what it used to do just because there is a newer version.

Install version 1.48 (download it HERE) - yes it is an old version, but it still works just fine, doesn't it.

If you want to run calibre on Windows XP, you have a few options: Qt no longer supports Windows XP (and neither does Microsoft, so there is little hope of anything changing).Īs a result, the latest version of calibre to work on Windows XP is calibre 1.48. When calibre version 2.0.0 was released, it was transitioned over to a new graphical toolkit, Qt5.