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Thank you.
In short, to use the Companion as it has been designed, one must, essentially, substitute Calibre for Amazon.
For me, there are several problems. First, much as I like Calibre, I'm not prepared to give it sole responsibility for my ebooks. I am, for better or worse, wedded to Amazon at this point. I buy e-books almost exclusively from Amazon and download them regularly to my Fire. As I understand your explanation, every time I downloaded an Amazon book, I'd have to send it to Calibre, incorporate it in the Calibre library, download it from Calibre and then delete the Amazon copy...because I found last night that the folder setting in the Calibre Companion options on both of my Fire HDXs is empty. Amazon does not store its books in that location.
Second, since I have multiple Fires, with different amounts of storage. I don't particularly want to download my entire ebook library (which now consists of about 1000 ebooks) to each device. That's the whole point of Amazon's cloud: the ability to upload and download books regardless of the device one is using.
Third, and related to the first point, I have had problems in the past with Amazon's ability to sync book notes and highlights across devices. Introducing Calibre Companion, as currently designed, into the mix would pretty much make it impossible for me to get any help from Amazon when/if more problems occur in the future.
I'll take a look at the text option and see if that might be useful.
I do have a suggestion: I think the description of the Calibre Companion app should emphasize that it must be used as a replacement for Amazon's library management not as an addition to or enhancement of Amazon's library.
Lastly, I want to thank you very much for taking the time to explain everything to me.
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