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Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan
People use Calibre instead of Sony software to manage their ebook collection because it's easier and more powerful than the Sony software. If most of your books are purchased from Sony or Kobo then you wouldn't really need Calibre. But Calibre is useful for your putting your own materials on the reader. Most of the materials on my reader are not store bought books. This is how I and others use Calibre:
(Note:Calibre doesn't work for library books.)
- I like to download articles from web sites to read to my reader (aka timeshift web reading). It's easier on the eye. The service I use is instapaper.com. It's a service that lets you save web sites and then download them as epubs. I actually download them as .mobi format - Kindle's format - and then use Calibre to convert it to epub because the .mobi format comes out better. I use Calibre to transfer it to the Reader.
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I use the Instapaper epub button and just download the file directly to a T1 folder I keep in Dropbox. I have a routine set up in which I collect articles over the course of a day, and then send them off to Dropbox at the end of the day.
(Note: there's a glitch of some sort currently involving Dropbox and Sony, such that the first & last articles in the epub download appear to be empty when read on the T1. I get around this by keeping a couple of old articles in my Unread folder, so that I can put one at the top of the list, and one at the bottom, before I upload the file.)
But if I were to adopt your procedure, I think I would be able to set up an Instapaper collection in Calibre, and sync that separately to Dropbox for access from my T1.