Thread: Best Practice
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Old 04-01-2016, 05:15 PM   #2
chaley
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Originally Posted by tamhas View Post
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?
Most of this is personal preference. I am not going to go there.
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Also, when I connect and it automatically does the sync of metadata, is it just updating any changes in the books it already has?
Yes
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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?
Yes. That said, there are at least two methods for automating this process.
  1. Use the Reading List plugin. This plugin can auto-send books to CC as long as you have set it up to do so.
  2. Use the SmartEject plugin. When you disconnect, this plugin can tell you which books are not currently on your device.
When you send a book from calibre to CC, it sends the metadata and the highest-priority book file.
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