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tamhas · 04-01-2016, 05:03 PM

I am curious about best practice with regard to books I am not going to read. In Calibre, I have all books that I have acquired. I have a custom column for status including Read, Reference, Cookbook, Skip, etc. If a book is Read, I then delete it from my Kindle. Likewise for Skip, i.e., I'm never going to read it because it is a book my wife is interested in and I am not.

Note that I have Kindle for Android on the phone which I use on the rare occasions when I want to read there. It appears that, if I want to read something, I have to download it with Kindle for Android.

So, if I have deleted a book from the Kindle, would you delete it from Calibre Companion?

Also, when I connect and it automatically does the sync of metadata, is it just updating any changes in the books it already has? So that to get a new book to show up in Calibre Companion at all, I have to push it from Calibre to the device? How much is it actually pushing? Just the metadata?

FWIW, 90% of my use of Calibre Companion is looking at books with the blank status and reading the summary. Occasionally I will look for books by a specific author, e.g., when I have recently read that author and know I have more than one.

04-01-2016, 05:03 PM	#1
tamhas Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Best Practice I am curious about best practice with regard to books I am not going to read. In Calibre, I have all books that I have acquired. I have a custom column for status including Read, Reference, Cookbook, Skip, etc. If a book is Read, I then delete it from my Kindle. Likewise for Skip, i.e., I'm never going to read it because it is a book my wife is interested in and I am not. Note that I have Kindle for Android on the phone which I use on the rare occasions when I want to read there. It appears that, if I want to read something, I have to download it with Kindle for Android. So, if I have deleted a book from the Kindle, would you delete it from Calibre Companion? Also, when I connect and it automatically does the sync of metadata, is it just updating any changes in the books it already has? So that to get a new book to show up in Calibre Companion at all, I have to push it from Calibre to the device? How much is it actually pushing? Just the metadata? FWIW, 90% of my use of Calibre Companion is looking at books with the blank status and reading the summary. Occasionally I will look for books by a specific author, e.g., when I have recently read that author and know I have more than one.