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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
Interesting suggestion. Calibre Companion simply is a direct companion for books folks maintain in their calibre library. I could be wrong and I don't have a Fire, but I don't see any reason to think the two apps can't be used side by side without interfering with each other.
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Yes and no.
First, the primary reason that Calibre Companion won't work for me is that I am currently wedded to Amazon & Kindle Fires. Even when I download a book (usually public domain) from another web site, I do it from my Kindle Fire.
In fact, I first got Calibre because Amazon treated such books as DOCS or, now Documents, rather than books and didn't save them to the cloud. So I used Calibre to remove the [pdoc] tag so they would show up under Books and/or to convert the book to a Kindle-friendly format. I also wanted to have one place where all my ebooks would exist, regardless of where I got them.
Amazon does now store non-Amazon books in its Cloud, although they are stored separately in the Documents section which is, of course, very annoying. (I could have Book 1 of a series in Books and Book 2 in Documents. Sheesh)
If, as an Amazon user, I wanted to separate my non-Amazon books from my Amazon books, then using Calibre Companion would make sense - especially if I acquired those books through the Calibre shopping option. But I don't want to separate my ebooks based on source of acquisition. I couldn't tell you where 70% of my physical books were bought. I could care less whether my e-books come from Project Gutenberg or Amazon or, for that matter, B&N.
The situation for users of other e-book devices (Sony, Kobe, Nook) may be very different and, for them, the Calibre Companion might make perfect sense.
So, I suppose I would modify my "warning" to say that users who buy all their e-books from Amazon to be read on Amazon devices and want them stored in Amazon's Cloud and managed by Amazon services probably will not want to use Calibre Companion.