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Kritz · 12-25-2014, 01:00 AM

Calibre's built-in connection to iTunes has made it easy to:

Add Books > Connect to iTunes > Send to Device > and then (from within iTunes) move the books to my (aging) iPad where iBooks recognises them.

Now I have a new Surface 3 tablet, so I need to replicate this functionality in Windows 8.1.

Unfortunately, for all its other virtues, Calibre is not a very good platform for actually reading ebooks, so I need to find a Win 8.1 equivalent to iBooks. I'm hoping for the simplicity and elegance of iBooks, but I'll settle for readability, if that's all I can get.

However, there's ONE FEATURE I CAN'T DO WITHOUT: being able to import my entire 1300-volume Calibre library into the new eReader. I'd settle for a batch import (based on an the ability to search my Calibre folder), even if that didn't yield a catalog that had everything I liked about iBooks.

I've looked at some of the newer eReaders (IceCream and Bookviser), as well as a few of the older stalwarts. Some are OK but they can't import as a batch.

I'm stumped. I can't import 1300 books by hand, nor do I want to give up Calibre's superb indexing and metadata handling capabilities.

Ideas? Thanks in advance.

12-25-2014, 01:00 AM	#1
Kritz Reader Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2014 Device: Surface 3/Win 8.1	Import Calibre library into Win 8.1 eReader Calibre's built-in connection to iTunes has made it easy to: Add Books > Connect to iTunes > Send to Device > and then (from within iTunes) move the books to my (aging) iPad where iBooks recognises them. Now I have a new Surface 3 tablet, so I need to replicate this functionality in Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, for all its other virtues, Calibre is not a very good platform for actually reading ebooks, so I need to find a Win 8.1 equivalent to iBooks. I'm hoping for the simplicity and elegance of iBooks, but I'll settle for readability, if that's all I can get. However, there's ONE FEATURE I CAN'T DO WITHOUT: being able to import my entire 1300-volume Calibre library into the new eReader. I'd settle for a batch import (based on an the ability to search my Calibre folder), even if that didn't yield a catalog that had everything I liked about iBooks. I've looked at some of the newer eReaders (IceCream and Bookviser), as well as a few of the older stalwarts. Some are OK but they can't import as a batch. I'm stumped. I can't import 1300 books by hand, nor do I want to give up Calibre's superb indexing and metadata handling capabilities. Ideas? Thanks in advance.