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banid0 · 05-20-2016, 05:27 AM

Hello to you all,

I have this setup:

Mac OS X 10.11.4
Calibre 2.55 with Kindle Collections 1.7.16 plugin installed
Kindle Paperwhite 3 jailbroken, running 5.6.5
LibrarianSync installed

I have little experience with this, so if you can help me, I appreciate.

When I only had Kindle without jailbreak, and with jailbreak without installing or using LibrarinSync, everything ran as I supposed:
I would open calibre and conencted the USB cable to the kindle, and a few seconds after, it would be detected, and now I could see which books were both at my lib and at my kindle. I could erase and add books.
As soon as I ejected the kindle, the new books added or removed would be reflected on my kindle homescreen.

So everything was OK.

But I had hundreds of books (as a matter of fact, mostly are text documents converted to AZW3 on calibre), and I needed a better organization.

I began searching online and it seemed to me that I would create a custom metadata field, that I could assign to kindle colllections plugin, and create collections on the kindle. Then, with librarinsync isntalled, I would "update collections", and it worked.

Maybe I skipped some steps, but in the end, I had "folders" of my collections in the kindle, as I desired.

So no big deal until this.

But today I tried to add more books, and now they aren't reflected on the kindle.
I mean: i removed ALL the books on calibre, Ichecked on the finder on my Mac and the folder documents don't have ANY file.
Also, I ejected and re-added only ONE book, and I can't find it, even with the search function.

It could be by several reasons, that I need your help to understand (in order to not do that again) and to perceive where and how can I solve it.

1- I was sending books to he kindle, and interrupted on calibre. Could it corrupted the library? On calibre, with kindle connecter I tried the option "recreate metadata database" or something like that, with no effect.
2- It could be by my misusing with librariansync. Could it be me using Librariansync wrongly, and corrupted something?

How can I force the recreation of library on kindle, or resynching or something, without make a factory default?
If I have to do the factory reset, will it erase my jailbreak/KUAL/librariansync installation?

Can you give me more elaborated documentation on librarinsync use? I read the README on https://github.com/barsanuphe/librariansync and I didn't get much clarified on what all the options does.

I'm sorry for the long post, and for putting this in this forum (I don't know if it's the right one, because I can't understand if it's a calibre/kindle/librariansync problem).

BONUS question:
I want to send all the books as NOT READ, and after reading them, to be marked as READ and to synchronize that flag to calibre. So I read the book on kindle, and keep the record on calibre.

I though in this solution, don't know if it's the best or not: custom colmun on calibre, a flag as READ? (Y/N), and don't mark anything by default (keep them as neither YES or NO but as undefined/empty). Create a custom column as "colelctions", which are assigned to kindle colections/librariansync and add several "tags", as the genre (fishing/self-teaching/emails) and a descrition as "to be read". Example of the field: "Health, Fishing, To be read".

When i run the librariansync, I get this book in three collections:
Health
Fishing
To be read

When I'm done reading it, I mannually remove it from "to be read", and move it to a "read books".

Then I go to calibre and remove the tag of "To be read", and mark them as "read" with a YES flag (this flag serve the purpose of simple searching all read books on calibre).

So can you help me?

Thank you very much!

05-20-2016, 05:27 AM	#1
banid0 Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Device: Kindle PaperWhite 3	Kindle PaperWhite 3 + Calibre + LibrarianSync Hello to you all, I have this setup: Mac OS X 10.11.4 Calibre 2.55 with Kindle Collections 1.7.16 plugin installed Kindle Paperwhite 3 jailbroken, running 5.6.5 LibrarianSync installed I have little experience with this, so if you can help me, I appreciate. When I only had Kindle without jailbreak, and with jailbreak without installing or using LibrarinSync, everything ran as I supposed: I would open calibre and conencted the USB cable to the kindle, and a few seconds after, it would be detected, and now I could see which books were both at my lib and at my kindle. I could erase and add books. As soon as I ejected the kindle, the new books added or removed would be reflected on my kindle homescreen. So everything was OK. But I had hundreds of books (as a matter of fact, mostly are text documents converted to AZW3 on calibre), and I needed a better organization. I began searching online and it seemed to me that I would create a custom metadata field, that I could assign to kindle colllections plugin, and create collections on the kindle. Then, with librarinsync isntalled, I would "update collections", and it worked. Maybe I skipped some steps, but in the end, I had "folders" of my collections in the kindle, as I desired. So no big deal until this. But today I tried to add more books, and now they aren't reflected on the kindle. I mean: i removed ALL the books on calibre, Ichecked on the finder on my Mac and the folder documents don't have ANY file. Also, I ejected and re-added only ONE book, and I can't find it, even with the search function. It could be by several reasons, that I need your help to understand (in order to not do that again) and to perceive where and how can I solve it. 1- I was sending books to he kindle, and interrupted on calibre. Could it corrupted the library? On calibre, with kindle connecter I tried the option "recreate metadata database" or something like that, with no effect. 2- It could be by my misusing with librariansync. Could it be me using Librariansync wrongly, and corrupted something? How can I force the recreation of library on kindle, or resynching or something, without make a factory default? If I have to do the factory reset, will it erase my jailbreak/KUAL/librariansync installation? Can you give me more elaborated documentation on librarinsync use? I read the README on https://github.com/barsanuphe/librariansync and I didn't get much clarified on what all the options does. I'm sorry for the long post, and for putting this in this forum (I don't know if it's the right one, because I can't understand if it's a calibre/kindle/librariansync problem). BONUS question: I want to send all the books as NOT READ, and after reading them, to be marked as READ and to synchronize that flag to calibre. So I read the book on kindle, and keep the record on calibre. I though in this solution, don't know if it's the best or not: custom colmun on calibre, a flag as READ? (Y/N), and don't mark anything by default (keep them as neither YES or NO but as undefined/empty). Create a custom column as "colelctions", which are assigned to kindle colections/librariansync and add several "tags", as the genre (fishing/self-teaching/emails) and a descrition as "to be read". Example of the field: "Health, Fishing, To be read". When i run the librariansync, I get this book in three collections: Health Fishing To be read When I'm done reading it, I mannually remove it from "to be read", and move it to a "read books". Then I go to calibre and remove the tag of "To be read", and mark them as "read" with a YES flag (this flag serve the purpose of simple searching all read books on calibre). So can you help me? Thank you very much!