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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
When I first got my reader I used to drag and drop books to it. Then I discovered Calibre and that's the only way I now upload books.
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I alternate between three different computers. I don't have a way to coordinate Calibre between all of them. Also, I think the one on the Vista machine makes an author folder for each author in My Documents, which is a lot of extra folders getting in the way of finding other files. I understand the "black box - do not touch" theory, but the box is scattered across the areas I need to use.
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Calibre also never touches files on the reader and not within the Calibre library... it won't delete them, and it won't move them to the PC or copy them to the PC unless you tell Calibre to do it.
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I know it won't touche the files on the Reader; that's the problem. I can't download to the Reader at work, and then insert those titles into Calibre when I get home. (Well. Can insert them; can't add them to collections, because the version on the Reader isn't part of the Calibre library.)
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I also found using Calibre much better to keep all my ebooks in one location on my PC in the Calibre library now so it's easy to tell if I have a book or not. I want them all backed up anyway for safety, so I never rely on them being only on the reader for instance.
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The only things I leave on the Reader only is fanfic I download from AO3; everything else is in at least one other place. (If I'm downloading at work, I also have a portable drive I use to transfer things to my PC.)
I keep meaning to figure out how to work with Calibre someday, but it changes too fast for me to get comfortable with it. I probably mostly just need to find someone local who's fluent in it, to walk me through setting up a library. So far, I've found it slow and cumbersome, and the switching between machines has made it not worth bothering to get better with it. Also, a substantial portion of my "ebooks" aren't "books" in the traditional sense,* and while Calibre's metadata setup would let me make custom columns and tags for them, it's a lot of work to do so.
* I have court rulings, bus schedules, lists that I edit, blog posts w/comments, fanzines, and collections of lyrics, among other things. "Author" is often a troublesome field for me.