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I finally sat down to learn how to use Calibre. I have 300+ books in my Amazon Kindle "library" and want to store them in Calibre so that I can organize them via metadata and also keep track of which books I've read. Calibre is quite complex...

I decided to install the OS X Kindle App because I felt it would be easier to download books then copy them into Calibre without having to connect a device to my laptop. I discovered how to add books automatically when they are downloaded to the Kindle storage folder. So far so good.

I downloaded and categorized about 100 books and then closed up shop. When I launched the Kindle app, I saw that there were no downloaded books! The files are in the directory but for some reason the Kindle app doesn't think they have been downloaded. I played with this and can reproduce the problem 100% of the time.

If I use the "Add books from a single directory" function, this doesn't happen. But with that function I either have to know exactly which cryptically named file is the most recently downloaded book (e.g., B005G05WDO_EBOK.aza) or I have to select everything in the directory and then contend with the duplicate book dialog.

Is there a way to do this automatically?