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Originally Posted by Andyjenk
Thank you, I am totally new to Calibre! And a Happy New Year to All.
I'm wondering if Calibre may be too powerful for what I want. Importing the CSV I get no matches in my library - TRUE! If I leave my books in the cloud and don't want to de-DRM them I'm not sure if it will work.
My situation is as follows - I have 25,000+ ebooks in the cloud. I have created a CSV file containing Title, Author, Purchase date, Sort-Title, Sort-Author and Sort-Purchase Date. I was planning on importing them to import them into a spreadsheet, add 'read' and 'genre' columns, add indicators in the 'genre' columns such as a1, a2, a3... to indicate book sequences. I can then sort on any combination, select off those with an indicator in the genre column, save and create Mobi 'Index' files to use to store on my Kindle (Kindles and Kindle Apps refuse to list more than 15,000 cloud books).
I can also add my tree books as and when.
I'm beginning to think I've done the hard work in writing the program to create the CSV file and that Calibre may be too complicated unless I store the ebooks on my own storage.
It would have been nice to have the cover images but I can live without them.
Have I got the wrong idea about Calibre? My life is not long enough to download all 25,000+ books!
Sorry about my ignorance but I can't face reading the Calibre Manual if Calibre won't be of much help.
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I would be very uncomfortable not having a copy of my purchased books on a local drive (or three). If something happens to the cloud version or the company you will have lost all those books.
I always setup a pc version of the program when I purchase books and have them delivered to my pc. While they still exist in the "cloud" universe, I feel secure having them locally available. Guess I'm not trusting that the company will always exist lol.