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tamhas · 09-17-2015, 05:42 PM

A while back, I got Calibre Companion on my Android phone because it would allow me a portable way to browse through recent books to look for something to read. My Kindle keyboard had a number of collections, including Read for books I was finished with and Defer for books I didn't want to read right away, but I wasn't giving up on altogether. When I would sync Calibre with the Kindle, I would push new books into Calibre and refresh the collections from the Kindle, which would then show me all the books moved to Read.

That Kindle died and I have a new Paperwhite. There turned out to be no way to push the collections from Calibre to the Paperwhite without jailbreaking the Paperwhite, so I elected to forget the Read collections and remove books from the Kindle when they were read. So, I am thinking I will have a Read collection, move books to it, then update Calibre based on what is in that collection. I created a new Status column for Read plus all the other collections, so I can easily see what is unread. I suppose that I should use that column instead of collections to organize things in CC going forward.

But ... and here is the question ... it is going to be in CC when I am looking at the summaries that I decide something needs to move to Defer. Does that mean I need to do that move on the Kindle and wait to refresh CC or is there a way I can change the status in CC?

09-17-2015, 05:42 PM	#1
tamhas Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Coordinating Calibre, CC, and a reader A while back, I got Calibre Companion on my Android phone because it would allow me a portable way to browse through recent books to look for something to read. My Kindle keyboard had a number of collections, including Read for books I was finished with and Defer for books I didn't want to read right away, but I wasn't giving up on altogether. When I would sync Calibre with the Kindle, I would push new books into Calibre and refresh the collections from the Kindle, which would then show me all the books moved to Read. That Kindle died and I have a new Paperwhite. There turned out to be no way to push the collections from Calibre to the Paperwhite without jailbreaking the Paperwhite, so I elected to forget the Read collections and remove books from the Kindle when they were read. So, I am thinking I will have a Read collection, move books to it, then update Calibre based on what is in that collection. I created a new Status column for Read plus all the other collections, so I can easily see what is unread. I suppose that I should use that column instead of collections to organize things in CC going forward. But ... and here is the question ... it is going to be in CC when I am looking at the summaries that I decide something needs to move to Defer. Does that mean I need to do that move on the Kindle and wait to refresh CC or is there a way I can change the status in CC?