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Originally Posted by Diruuo
TL;DR; Please walk me through Library (not shelf) Management with Calibre in baby steps.
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For myself, I open Calibre on the computer, connect my Kobo to the computer and hit the connect button on screen.
After a while, Calibre realizes the Kobo is connected and the busy twirler in the lower right corner starts twirling. After that task in finished, I see the on device column populated. Since I keep my epubs on an external uSD card, it shows as Card A. On that card is a eLibrary directory in which the ebooks are actually stored -- the second screenshot is the configuration I use for Send to Device. So basically, if a book did not show an entry in the On Device column, I would right click, select Send to device and then Send to storage card A. Once the books have been sent, I safely eject the ereader. How to do this depends on your OS. My choice was to add the SmartEject plugin to Calibre and use it.
Once the ebooks have been sent to my Kobo and processed, I reconnect the ereader and use davidfor's KoboUtilities to send the series information. You need the two steps to allow the database entries to be created so the information can be added.
As for shelves? I'm addicted to using the Search function to locate ebooks on my Kobo so have long since given up using shelves. Search will use title, author, series and keyword so works for me and the live results generally mean I find what I want with few keystrokes. Say I want to find Terry Pratchett's Going Postal -- by the time, I've typed goi, it's in the search results. Not quite as good with series with a large number of members such as The Grantville Gazette -- the world's longest running ebook soap opera.
I would recommend setting a directory for your ebooks making sure the name does not start with a period '.' as your Kobo will not look for books in a *nix OS hidden directory (my choice was the pretentious eLibrary hence the eLibrary/ in the Send to device configuration).
Good luck!