Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Thank you for posting your text a second time. If you had only posted the exact same thing once, I might not have been able to understand it.
You stated that you had a calibre problem. I suggested that, instead of disregarding the benefits calibre has for you, you should post that question in the calibre support forum, where it would be answered (and most likely in a way you could understand). Given that you already have a certain amount of investment in calibre (installing it, reading docs, etc.) it would make sense, at least to me, that you would want to retain that investment instead of discarding it in favor of doing the same things over again for another program. Which would, by the way, be the one that came with your device. Since you hadn't tried asking for a fix in the calibre forum (and since Kindle email issues have generated a number of threads, although because I don't use a Kindle, I haven't read them), I suggested you should try that.
I can't fathom the mindset of someone who does not want to learn how to use their tools, whether those tools are library management programs or automobiles, and even less the ones (and I've met people like this) who wear their ignorance like a badge of honor. I couldn't talk to someone like that; my brain just doesn't work that way. So I'll assume you are not such a person (and who would want to be, anyway?) and continue. Yes, calibre can look somewhat intimidating at first glance. Sometimes at second or third, for that matter. That doesn't mean it is actually difficult to use, just that the user interface isn't what I would have chosen (but hey, if I don't like it, I'm sure Kovid will give me back twice what I paid for it!). Everything you need is right there, and the real problem is not that calibre is difficult to use, or that any given function is arcane, but that actually finding what you want can be difficult among all the things you don't need (look at the full professional version of Photoshop some time to see this taken to extremes). That's where an experienced guide can be a big help.
The reason I suggested the calibre forum is that it is full of people (tech-savvy and otherwise) who have done just about anything that just about anyone might want to do with calibre. If you need to know how to do something, there is someone in that forum who will explain exactly how to do it, step one, step two, step three, so anyone can follow. That's one of the things I love about calibre: while I've never had to ask "how do I do this?" it's comforting to know that if I do, there are hundreds of my fellow users (not to mention the calibre developers) there who can give me the answers I need. And they can give you the answers you need.
Because really, that's what your question comes down to: you need an ebook manager that will do accomplish certain tasks. Given that your choices are pretty much the Kindle software or calibre, it seemed to make sense to suggest asking the people who know how to tell a non-tech-savvy person how to use calibre to do what you need, especially given that you hadn't even tried.
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