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Originally Posted by lordvetinari2

Every ebook already in a collection in the Kindle but missing from the Calibre library got assigned no collection and ended up in the Home screen.

I assume you ran Create and have your Customization set to use a custom column (since you imported from the Kindle in the first place).

The plugin views collections as either Calibre managed or Kindle managed. If the collection is meant to be created using Calibre's columns/values then only Calibre books can be in those collections. If the collection is meant to be Kindle managed then you can put any books on the Kindle into it (manually on the Kindle or via Edit) - but you can't use that collection name in a calibre column/value or the plugin will overwrite it. Best to put the Kindle managed collection names into the Customization field 'Never delete' to avoid accidentally overwriting them.

I want to do something very simple. Right click on an ebook in the Device view in Calibre > Assign to collection > choose from the list of collections available in the Kindle. Is there any way to do this with this plugin or am I thinking the wrong way?

Is there an 'Assign to collection' menu option in the Devices view? Hmm, just checked in mine and its not there (well, it could have been, there are a lot of functions in calibre ). The plugin doesn't work this way. Its more 'stand-alone'.

To do something similar (pick a book on the Kindle and put it into a collection on the Kindle) use the Edit Kindle Collections menu item.

But if you use Edit, then either make sure you only edit Kindle managed collections (ones you aren't generating using Create from Calibre), set Customization to skip the Kindle managed collections, or don't use Create.

I find this plugin very complete and detailed, but I am starting to believe that it far exceeds my needs.

Its funny because I started out to keep it very simple, but with every request just kept adding more I've tried to keep the main activities separate, but the plugin still can't do some things.

Its an interesting idea to have a menu item to 'Add this book' or 'Remove this book' to the device right click menu. You can of course have the Kindle Collections menu attached to the right click menu for the device view now, but it doesn't do anything different than the icon menus. Add/Remove could just be part of the general plugin menu but be set to only work on selected books. Right now, the collection list in Device view isn't complete so we need to get that working first. Of course, each add/remove would mean reading/writing to the Kindle which may or may not be too slow. Well, something to think about but it would be some time before I can look at it. Right now, I think Edit will probably do what you want to do.