[artisticforge]

hello;

i have been using calibre several months to manage the e-books
on the imacs and the macbook pro laptop. i have never intended
to use calibre to manage the e-books on the iPods and iPads. i use
iTunes to manage the e-books on the iPods and iPads.

today, i wanted to add some music to the iPad. i attached the iPad
to the imac. i was unpleasantly surprised to discover the calibre was
indexing the books on the iPad. calibre then proceeded to load all 671
e-books onto the iPad and into iTunes. that is definitely not what i wanted
to happen. if i want e-books added to iTunes i will add them to iTunes.
if i want e-books added to the iPads i will select them to be
added by iTunes.

i waited for iTunes to finish syncing with the iPad, then i proceeded
to delete all the e-books that calibre had added to iTunes and the iPad.

i do not understand why calibre did what it did today. calibre was running
in the background to provide the web server for stanza. i did interact
with calibre today until calibre decided it knew more about how to manage
the e-books on my computers and iPads than i did.

today, calibre burned me and i have learned that when attaching the
iPads to be sure that calibre is not running and after detaching the iPads
calibre may be started.

as far as continuing to use calibre for managing e-books, that remains
to be seen.