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Vaesse · 07-23-2011, 01:49 AM

As I have mentioned in other threads, I am another plugin hound and just now getting around to reading the forums of all the wonderful plugins I have been using to make Calibre sing and dance just the way I want it to. Of course, in reading these forums, I'm coming up with new ideas of other things that I can do with Calibre.

So, here are a few questions that came to mind about what I've found in this forum.

First, the scenario: I have tags that I use as a stand in for "ondevice" for my iPhone and for my Kindle (when it's not attached). Currently I have a non-clearing reading list populating these tags and synching anything new I add. This is working flawlessly. Now I notice that there's a "remove" style list. If I set that to modify the SAME tag as my synch list, will it (as I hope) remove the tag as it removes the book from the Kindle? Would the tag repopulate on the next synch (as the book is still technically in the synch list)? I'm a bit tired so I'm not sure I'm expressing this as well as I could, but I'm hoping I'm getting the idea across. If combining two lists to the same tag doesn't work the way I want it to... does anyone have any ideas how I could get the same functionality (basically, removing from Kindle, removing tag, and ideally also removing from "On Kindle" reading list simultaneously)? I think it could work if I could clear the "to synch" reading list WITHOUT clearing the tag... keeping the list for only new stuff and the tag functioning as "ondevice".

Second, I read something that got me all psyched up, then I realized I probably read it wrong with my wishful thinking... I noticed someone saying something about an iTunes update in relation to Calibre. Are we (by any chance) at or approaching the ability to synch my Kindle app on my iPhone with Calibre in a similar way to the way I synch my Kindle (minus the nifty collections that I don't think the app supports)? If so, I'm beyond thrilled... I read on my iPhone at night in bed (where the backlight of the black page with white letters is much less disruptive than a light shining on my Kindle screen), but manipulating the books on my iPhone is SUCH a pain (especially when compared with the sweetness that is my Calibre enhanced Kindle)!

Thank you so much, kiwidude, for the wonderful app and I'm going to start following these threads to see what else comes down the pike.

07-23-2011, 01:49 AM	#166
Vaesse Zealot Posts: 107 Karma: 33020 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	As I have mentioned in other threads, I am another plugin hound and just now getting around to reading the forums of all the wonderful plugins I have been using to make Calibre sing and dance just the way I want it to. Of course, in reading these forums, I'm coming up with new ideas of other things that I can do with Calibre. So, here are a few questions that came to mind about what I've found in this forum. First, the scenario: I have tags that I use as a stand in for "ondevice" for my iPhone and for my Kindle (when it's not attached). Currently I have a non-clearing reading list populating these tags and synching anything new I add. This is working flawlessly. Now I notice that there's a "remove" style list. If I set that to modify the SAME tag as my synch list, will it (as I hope) remove the tag as it removes the book from the Kindle? Would the tag repopulate on the next synch (as the book is still technically in the synch list)? I'm a bit tired so I'm not sure I'm expressing this as well as I could, but I'm hoping I'm getting the idea across. If combining two lists to the same tag doesn't work the way I want it to... does anyone have any ideas how I could get the same functionality (basically, removing from Kindle, removing tag, and ideally also removing from "On Kindle" reading list simultaneously)? I think it could work if I could clear the "to synch" reading list WITHOUT clearing the tag... keeping the list for only new stuff and the tag functioning as "ondevice". Second, I read something that got me all psyched up, then I realized I probably read it wrong with my wishful thinking... I noticed someone saying something about an iTunes update in relation to Calibre. Are we (by any chance) at or approaching the ability to synch my Kindle app on my iPhone with Calibre in a similar way to the way I synch my Kindle (minus the nifty collections that I don't think the app supports)? If so, I'm beyond thrilled... I read on my iPhone at night in bed (where the backlight of the black page with white letters is much less disruptive than a light shining on my Kindle screen), but manipulating the books on my iPhone is SUCH a pain (especially when compared with the sweetness that is my Calibre enhanced Kindle)! Thank you so much, kiwidude, for the wonderful app and I'm going to start following these threads to see what else comes down the pike.