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Just trying to clarify here.
1. I don't need Calibre to transfer books either to or from the Fire HDX. 99% of the e-books I have are stored in Amazon's cloud and I download to whichever Fire device I want to read the book on.
2. I got the desktop version of Calibre primarily to deal with the 1% of books I get from other sources and, most especially, to get them into a mobi format which will turn up as a book rather than a DOC in the Fire.
3. It doesn't make sense to me to use CC to manage the library on the device. I have multiple FIREs and switch between two of them regularly so Amazon's cloud is my point of contact and is available wherever I have wifi.
4. I have duplicated my Amazon library on my desktop PC, and keep it more or less up-to-date, and have slowly been creating tags so it is easier for me to know exactly what I own. So, in a way they are mirrored.
5. I had been hoping that what I think of as the catalogue, as opposed to the books themselves, was more-or-less exportable.
6. I always have wireless access, simply not to the PC on which my Calibre Content Server exists.
7. What I want on my Fires is the metadata, the tags that Calibre has. I'm not sure how Dropbox would help. It would simply be another place where my books are stored, right? So I could upload or download them - which I don't need because almost all my Kindle books are stored in Amazon's cloud.
So, long story short, I am correct: there is no way to access the metadata via Calibre Companion unless I'm connected to the content server?
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