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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
I have this installed in Calibre, but am not sure how to use it effectively.
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Just have it search for all books by selected authors, and it will search your configured OverDrive, OneClickDigital, 3M, Freading, OpenLibrary, Amazon (Kindle Owners Lending Library) borrowing locations. It will link your current calibre books to the results,
plus save all books by matching authors that you don't own yet!! That is the important part. You can view them from OverDrive Link (toolbar icon) ==> Manage discovered books. Right-clicking on any of them will allow you to hide, delete, or add the book (as an empty book record in calibre), as well as "Borrow book at %s" or "Recommend book to %s" at the name of the configured library.
I search for books, and if they aren't in calibre, that probably means I will want to borrow it. Once I borrow it, I ignore/add to calibre as empty book record, so it doesn't confuse my later searches. (Do not "Discard" the result, or next time it will come back and you may not realize you already got it.)
Every time you add more books to calibre, your search range expands. Add empty book records for authors you don't own at all yet.
You can also search for keywords. (This option only appears if you added keywords in the plugin configuration.)