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Originally Posted by sirmaru
What advantages do you get with Amazon eBooks by processing them through Calibre that are not available without using Calibre?
I only buy my eBooks from Amazon and cannot understand why they may need Calibre processing.
I use the vanilla Helvetica font and couldn't imagine using anything better.
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Lots of reasons. Among them:
1. I have thousands of ebooks; Calibre makes it easy to locate and organise them, and to add and delete books from my Kindle.
2. Many books come from the publisher or author with poor metadata; Calibre lets me edit the metadata into a consistent format.
3. Many books have formatting I don't like, such as large spaces between paragraphs, or a font size which is too large or too small. Calibre lets me easily fix such problems.
4. Calibre stores series information, and allows me to automatically prefix the title of a book with that information, making it easy to arrange books in series on the Kindle. Eg "Miss Marple 01 - The Murder at the Vicarage"; "Miss Marple 02 - The Body in the Library", etc.
5. Using the tools that must not be named, which are Calibre plugins, DRM is stripped from my books in a completely transparent manner. I never have to concern myself with DRM.
I could think of a lot more reasons, but that will do for now.