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Originally Posted by Lyn2012
Both Kobo and Kindle dictionaries work on side loaded books. Regarding Calibre integration, with regard to collections in particular, the Kindle PW does not work at all (out of the box), but the Kobo works brilliantly. I had a PW1 for 10 months and was so happy to get back to using a Kobo when the Aura came out. With the PW I had to jailbreak and use hacks to a) load my own custom fonts and b) get any form of functionality when using Calibre to organise my library into collections. The work these guys do to get round the limitations imposed by Amazon is fantastic but importing collections from Calibre to a Kindle is still far more complicated than it should be; the Sonys and Kobos, (and possibly other makes I haven't tried), make it so easy and quick. One other point is that as I haven't been keeping up with the PW2, I don't know if any of the hacks still work.
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In my opinion, Kindle Collections don't work well with or without Calibre but if you insist on using them, there is a Kinnde Collections plug-in for Calibre that works fine within the inherent limitations of the overall Collections feature.
The good news is that if you use Calibre, you don't need to bother with Kindle Collections anyway. You can easily set up user-defined columns for genre, read/unread, or any other criteria you find useful. You can also have multiple libraries. For example, I have separate libraries for fiction, non-fiction and for foreign language books (since my wife reads primarily in her native Spanish language). In the Calibre GUI, each library is displayed in a single, scrollable, sortable multi-column page and it's extremely easy to quick-switch from one library to another.
There are no hacks necessary to add custom fonts to the Paperwhite:
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...hite-no-hacks/
Nor are any hacks required to work with Kindle Collections, even though I still recommend that Calibre users set up their own custom columns and ignore the Kindle Collections feature altogether.