[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

From the FAQ:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=14

And note that CC is primarily meant to organize books according to calibre-style metadata management, and works best when using it as a device-connected-to-calibre.

Noted. But Calibre does deposit metadata on the card. I was hoping CC would see and use it.

calibre is meant to be used as the source of everything, on account of ebooks do not do the best job of embedding all the metadata that calibre tracks.

Fine by me. When I started using Calibre to manage things, I rapidly discovered it was best to let it do its job, and I abandoned the storage hierarchy I had in place on the card and let Calibre place things as it wished. Calibre maintains it, and FBReaderJ can find things in Calibre's organization.

However, per the link, you should be able to match currently-stored books to calibre's database. Hopefully the metadata is good (no PDFs, especially).

There are in fact PDFs, but everything is in a Calibre maintained database on my main machine, and sent to my Android tablet from Calibre via USB.

Works best with EPUB, as I believe other formats will actually have to be wirelessly sent to calibre for analysis -- it would be faster to resend them.
Resending shouldn't be a problem though. It's just Yet Another AFK.

By preference, I get ePub. But I have a fair number of Mobi files, and a batch of stuff only available in PDF. One reason for using FBReaderJ is that it can display all three, and I mostly don't have to care what format a book is in..

You will be thankful for CC once everything is properly in the database. Regardless of how it gets there. Don't confuse the job with the setup.

I don't. But getting the setup to where it can do the job is a necessary first step.
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Dennis