[jesscat]

I use Calibre primarily with my Kindle 2; I have 8-900 books (very few of them from Amazon) on it. Just got a Kindle 3, and I'm trying to figure out the optimal way to transfer my library to the new device.

The problem is that I don't want to transfer 800+ books over from Calibre and end up with it looking like I have 800 brand new unread books on my new Kindle. I want them to stay in the same "recently opened" order in which they're listed on my K2 - and I when I open an ebook, I want it to open to the location I last exited from. I also don't want to lose notes, annotations, bookmarks (though I have relatively few of those). This means somehow preserving my mpb files.

Is there any way to do this using Calibre? A way to somehow keep the mbp files associated with the ebook files? I suspect the answer is no, in which case does anyone have suggestions as to how best to accomplish this? The two methods I can think of are 1) Just copy over my K2 drive directly to the K3 (how would Calibre deal with this?), but that eliminates this opportunity to clean up the file structure, which now is a jumble of fn ln and ln, fn folders (because Calibre changed its folder naming sometime along the way, right?); or 2) Send books to K3 from Calibre, then manually transfer mbp files to K3 drive, making sure names are correct (very laborious!).