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Originally Posted by gabby98
ok, i think....
so is there a way to just display books on the device without having to 'put' them in calibre (she asks kinda already knowing the answer)?  |
I confess that I don't understand the question, so what I write here may not have anything to do with what you are thinking.
When you connect a device to calibre, you automatically get at least two views, your library and from one to three views of your device. For sake of discussion lets assume that your device has only "main memory" and you see only one view for it.
The library view is the same as is always shown in calibre, showing the books in your library. When a device is connected you also get a column "On device" that has a check mark in it if the book is on the currently connected device.
The device view shows the books on your device. It has a column "In library" that has a check mark in it if the book is in your library.
Books on the device that are not in your library do not have a checkmark in either view. There is no requirement that a book on your device be in your calibre library, or vice versa. As such, you can "display books on the device without having to 'put' them in calibre". They are displayed in the device view but they won't have check marks.
Calibre matches books on the device using several criteria, including title and authors. By "match" I mean detecting that a book on the device is the same as a book in the library, deserving of having check marks. Sometimes the metadata for the book on the device is sufficiently different from the metadata for the book in the library that calibre does not know that they are the same book. The "Match books" function lets you correct that situation; lets you tell calibre that a book on the device really is the same as a book in your library even though the title or the author(s) appear to be different.