Dummies guide to Kindle collections with Calibre?

niceboy · 10-12-2010, 10:22 AM

Can someone direct me to very simple basic instructions for how to establish collection groupings on the Kindle 3 using Calibre? The stuff I found on the subject was about getting "series" books to display in order within collections and it was confusing to me. I just want to set up basic genre categories from the start but I wouldn't mind doing it in batches for the text and epubs I intend to convert to mobi with Calibre. I have not been successful at registering at the Kindle Collection Manager site and though I very much like the idea of making categories easily from folders I may not be able to figure out that application anyway if it is script based. Thank you

suecsi · 10-12-2010, 10:25 AM

This isn't currently possible - collections in Calibre don't work with collections on the Kindle.

If someone could reverse engineer the Kindle Collection Manager application, they could probably write a plug in for Calibre.

niceboy · 10-12-2010, 10:37 AM

Thanks. Doing collections book by book is fine.

brewjono · 10-12-2010, 06:38 PM

On the Kindle Collection Manager thread there are a number of other options to downloa the file without going through the registration process. I think somebody has posted a Megaupload link. The developer appears to be AWOL so you can just help yourself. It really is a very easy program to use.

Brewjono.

niceboy · 10-15-2010, 01:57 AM

The developer is back online and i have the download but I can;t download the .Net Framework 4 Client Profile from Microsoft no matter what i do for some reason

Would appreciate help on that.

10-12-2010, 10:22 AM	#1
niceboy Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 14 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Dummies guide to Kindle collections with Calibre? Can someone direct me to very simple basic instructions for how to establish collection groupings on the Kindle 3 using Calibre? The stuff I found on the subject was about getting "series" books to display in order within collections and it was confusing to me. I just want to set up basic genre categories from the start but I wouldn't mind doing it in batches for the text and epubs I intend to convert to mobi with Calibre. I have not been successful at registering at the Kindle Collection Manager site and though I very much like the idea of making categories easily from folders I may not be able to figure out that application anyway if it is script based. Thank you

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10-12-2010, 10:25 AM	#2
suecsi Rock Chick Posts: 429 Karma: 4965 Join Date: May 2009 Location: near Heathrow Device: Kindle 2i, Kindle DX, Kindle 3G	This isn't currently possible - collections in Calibre don't work with collections on the Kindle. If someone could reverse engineer the Kindle Collection Manager application, they could probably write a plug in for Calibre.

10-12-2010, 10:37 AM	#3
niceboy Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 14 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Thanks. Doing collections book by book is fine.

10-12-2010, 06:38 PM	#4
brewjono Zealot Posts: 106 Karma: 501816 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Australia Device: K3, K4, KPW	On the Kindle Collection Manager thread there are a number of other options to downloa the file without going through the registration process. I think somebody has posted a Megaupload link. The developer appears to be AWOL so you can just help yourself. It really is a very easy program to use. Brewjono.

10-15-2010, 01:57 AM	#5
niceboy Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 14 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	The developer is back online and i have the download but I can;t download the .Net Framework 4 Client Profile from Microsoft no matter what i do for some reason Would appreciate help on that.

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