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Search can be an iffy thing. If you don't pick exactly the right keywords, you can come up blank on a subject that has been covered ... well, as many times as this one has. And picking those keywords, especially on an unfamiliar subject, can be a black art.
Don't worry about stupid questions; while it's not true that the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked (I've seen questions so mind-numbingly stupid that they never should be asked, even in kindergarten) that certainly wasn't one of them. It's a legitimate question on a subject you didn't know much about, which is how one learns. The alternative is barging ahead and making stupid mistakes, and then posting on here how lousy calibre is and how incompetent the devs are because it doesn't work the way you think/want it to work -- and yes, we've had a disturbingly large number of people who introduced themselves to this forum by doing exactly that. Needless to say, they don't make a good first impression.
So don't worry about asking any questions you might have. We're a really friendly bunch (well, they are; I fake it) and there's someone here with an answer to just about anything. After all, it wasn't all that long ago that most of us were the ones with the befuddled looks and the newbie questions (and the reason that's not true for the rest is that they wrote the code ... and even at that, Kovid is the only one who didn't have to learn his way around calibre at some point).
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