Hello there...
I just bought me a Nook Simple Touch and I've read a lot of people mention Calibre as an ebook converter.
I assumed it was real simple.... I just add a bunch of pdf's or mobi's that I have into Calibre and create ePub versions. OK, thats fine... its apparently doing that it seems.
A few things. I noticed that a pdf may have a title, but when converted the title might be named something else totally. I found that I can go into edit metadata and simply rename the book with its rightful title. However that'd be a pain on many.
But right now this is very confusing... this 'save to disk'. Because, I don't understand whats the difference between that and a Calibre Library.
I was under the impression that all I needed to do was create a calibre library, then add whatever books I wanted to in that library...and if some needed to be converted to epub as well, I'd do that and the epub conversion gets added to the library as well.
So I was thinking, well, I'd really like to put books into categories or genres... like fiction, science, etc... so I figured out that I can create new calibre libraries with the name of whatever genre, then add books of that genre into that particular library and then I can simply switch between whichever library I want to look at.
I'm all correct so far in this assumption?
But then I saw this 'save to disk' thing in the toolbar...and I'm thinking...what the heck do you use that for if the calibre libraries already contained and saved my books?
Then I searched this forum and found the thread about "Managing subgroups of books, for example "genre" (long post)" and it just made my eyeballs spin!
Bottom line.... I'm no techie. I just want to create my libraries with different categories, add/convert books into them and then load them into my Nook. If its going to be more complicated than that, I'm shot!
Thanks!