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Old 06-05-2012, 11:57 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
Can you explain what it does? I've used it on and off and as far as I can tell that's all it's doing. I haven't looked at the source, but as a software engineer it doesn't appear to me to be doing anything else.
While I disagree with jackastor that calibre is the source of all evil with the KT, calibre does do more than what PeterT said. But, the main thing it does will not affect the KT in anyway.

The main thing calibre does when copying books to an ereader is to update the metadata in the book. calibre copies the book over and then updates the metadata.This also means that if you send a modified book (new cover, metadata, content etc) the KT won't do anything with it. When you read the book it will probably be OK (bookmarks might not work) but the KT won't use the update cover, title or TOC if that changed. I have cobbled together a plugin to fix the TOC but not the others.

If you have the sync settings to something other than "Manual Management", calibre can makes changes to the read status on the KT. I don't like the way it does this, so I use "Manual Management".

If you delete books from the KT using calibre, it will remove the book details from the KT's database and the cover images. The latter it might not do correctly as I have just tried a delete and there was an image file left behind. Hmm, looking at the driver source, it doesn't handle the "N3_LIBRARY_SHELF" version of the image.
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