[chaley]

Originally Posted by curious

is there a way to drop my library on the nexus, already minus books (I have it ready on a USB key) instead of synching wirelessly and removing the book files afterwards?

No. The only way to get books into CC is syncing using either the content server or the wireless device driver.

But having played with CC, and grabbed a couple of books from the content server, CC's abilities look pretty neat - notably I get thumbs, and which number in a series the book is.

You get all the metadata in your calibre library, including custom columns.

I could do the wireless synch and delete the book files afterwards, but I thought I'd check first, as manually deleting them on the nexus might prove to be more of a pain than a recursive find-and-delete on eBook file types beforehand.

It isn't hard to delete all the books sent to CC. Assuming you haven't changed the default folder "Calibre_Companion" then simply delete that folder. CC will re-create it when it needs it.

One possibility that might not be obvious: you can tell CC to separate book formats (book types) into different folders. Using this feature you can easily keep and read book formats on your N7 that the Sony can't handle, such as .mobi and .cbr (don't think the sony can handle these). Put the formats you want to keep into a folder separate from the ones you want to delete. From time to time delete the folder containing the formats you read on your sony.