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Originally Posted by Mikeloftus
Hey,
Just a quick one, is it possible to simply use Calibre to edit books and not have it linked with your device. I am one of the few who like the Sony Reader software and having both connecting to the reader is causing problems. I wish to use the Sony software for management and Calibre as an when.
Cheers,
Mike
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Just adding my voice to the others:
I have no knowledge of the Sony Reader software. If you like it --fine! Use it. Yes, Calibre can convert ebooks on an ad-hoc basis, without it being linked to your device. But you will probably, I think, have to let it set up it's database system that will involve whatever ebooks you're converting. Given the small size of ebooks, that's a pretty low-overhead requirement.
I love Calibre and am using it to organize all my ebooks. But on my eReader, I use an SD card to hold my library. I prefer to use Calibre [with pinboard algorithms] to write my planned uploads
first to a directory on my computer HDD. And then I just copy that over to the SD card, after I'm sure i have the directory structure the way I want it.
So even though I use it exclusively, Calibre still isn't "linked" to my device in a restrictive sort of way.
Hey, even if you're not up to learning the database markup rules to do fancy genre-directory/subdirectory etc. etc. sorting --once you get everything organized with Calibre, you can always just manually go though and copy whatever books you want to your device --in whatever place you want to put them.
I'm not familiar with the SONY setup, but if you have a separate SD card you can plug into your computer, it will be no problem. I understand SONY has some particular filesystem requirements, so check with other SONY users first for a flawless experience.