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Where do you want to select the books from - Calibre or the Kindle?
The plugin can edit Kindle collections in 2 ways. It depends on if you use Calibre to manage your books or just use it to convert books (or haven't used it before).
The first is to automatically generate collections from Calibre using the books/tags/author names/etc you have already setup in Calibre.
To use this approach, you must select the books in Calibre and send them to your Kindle. You then need to add a Tag to each of the books you want to group together. Then run the plugin (Customize and select 'Create' for Tags, run Preview to see what will happen, then run Create if it looks ok). The plugin will then create a collection on your Kindle matching your Tag name and any other tag names you have in Calibre (and leave any other collections already on your Kindle that don't match the tag names alone). (If you have too many tags, you can customize the plugin to only Include certain tag names or to ignore certain ones).
The second way is to edit collections manually using the information stored on your Kindle (in this case Calibre is only really being used to provide a convenient way for me distribute the program, although I do use it to check some information).
To use this approach, start the plugin and select Edit. (You may need to run Customize and select OK first in the current plugin version). You now see all the books on your Kindle and all the collections that exist on the Kindle. Select the collection you want to edit. To add a new collection, enter a name in the box at the top and click the '+' button at the top. Click the checkbox in the Include column for a book to include/not-include the book in the current collection. Then click save. Then restart your Kindle and you should see the modified collections.
Using Calibre to automatically manage your collections is what the plugin was intended for. If this isn't what you want right now, then the manual edit approach also works well. And you might find as your collections grow that you will want to use Calibre more to manage your books and use the plugin to automatically manage the collections.
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