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Purple Lady · 01-18-2016, 05:50 PM

I used to have to edit my books. When I used eink readers it was a necessity for me. I hate large line spacing, large indents, serif fonts, and full justification. My Sony 950 didn't have good font sizes for me, so I always had to convert to make fonts big enough, and to specify my preferred font.

Then I got my first Android tablet and found Moon+. I could change everything I needed without editing the book! Moon+ does change things it really shouldn't though, but it beats editing every book. I'd rather spend my time reading.

I now just import into Calibre and download meta data to add a description and change the cover if necessary. I add the genre by mapping Goodreads genre returned from the meta data download to my more limited genres, add the read status, whether it was a purchase or free, and where purchased. I use the Modify epub plugin to remove fonts, add a meta data jacket, and a few other things I don't remember. I of course make sure the title and author are correct as well.

I use the Reading list plugin to automatically send the book to my readers at the next wireless connection by CC. I also have an automatic wireless connection every morning on my Tab S to get my news feeds too.

It sounds like a lot, but most things are populated by the meta data download and plugins, so most of this happens automatically. If I am importing multiple books from Amazon I can populate my custom columns all at the same time by bulk meta data edit.

01-18-2016, 05:50 PM	#39
Purple Lady Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,698 Karma: 16542228 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Device: Huawei MediaPad M5, LG V30, Boyue T80S, Nexus 7 LTE, K3 3G, Fire HD8	I used to have to edit my books. When I used eink readers it was a necessity for me. I hate large line spacing, large indents, serif fonts, and full justification. My Sony 950 didn't have good font sizes for me, so I always had to convert to make fonts big enough, and to specify my preferred font. Then I got my first Android tablet and found Moon+. I could change everything I needed without editing the book! Moon+ does change things it really shouldn't though, but it beats editing every book. I'd rather spend my time reading. I now just import into Calibre and download meta data to add a description and change the cover if necessary. I add the genre by mapping Goodreads genre returned from the meta data download to my more limited genres, add the read status, whether it was a purchase or free, and where purchased. I use the Modify epub plugin to remove fonts, add a meta data jacket, and a few other things I don't remember. I of course make sure the title and author are correct as well. I use the Reading list plugin to automatically send the book to my readers at the next wireless connection by CC. I also have an automatic wireless connection every morning on my Tab S to get my news feeds too. It sounds like a lot, but most things are populated by the meta data download and plugins, so most of this happens automatically. If I am importing multiple books from Amazon I can populate my custom columns all at the same time by bulk meta data edit.