I would be very grateful if someone could let me know what their experiences are with the Nook HD+ and Calibre Companion/Mantano.
For quite a while, I have been downloading my Nook books into Calibre and combining them in my Calibre Library with books from other places than B&N. I have been spending a LOT of time getting tags/series/etc just right because I planned to get a Nexus 7 and upload all my epubs to it with Calibre Companion, and use CC as my library organizer, with Mantano possibly as the e-reader of choice.
I still plan to get a Nexus 7, but ended up not being able to resist the Father's Day sale on the Nook HD+, since Google Play was just added. This complicates things of course, since the HD+ immediately downloaded (at least some of) my B&N books.
Since I've used Nook for PC to download all my B&N books into Calibre (somewhere around 1200 books), I'm seriously considering getting CC anyway, and sideloading all my books (including the B&N books) onto my HD+, since that is the only way that CC will know about my B&N books (right?).
Even though I know that I'll have duplicates on my HD+ at this point, I hope that I don't have to archive the books that the HD+ automatically downloaded. I have a LOT of B&N books, and it will be a serious pain to archive all of them. I bought the 32 gig model so I've got lots of room, and there are always memory cards if I run out of memory.
What are people's experiences with using CC with the HD+? Is my plan a valid one? Also, is there any reason to use a reader other than the stock Nook reader? I don't mind the reader's functionality, but I want better library management than the exceedingly sucky (in my experience) shelving thing that the Nooks use.
Originally, I was going to use Mantano, since it could handle the DRM, and use the tags, etc that I set up in Calibre. However, in reading about CC, it seems that I can launch applications straight from CC to the ereader, so I'm wondering whether I need Mantano at all.
in advance to anyone who can give me advice before I botch things up completely by experimenting.