[Steve_Haley]

Originally Posted by The Old Man

I appreciate the advice you folks are providing. I really do! Please note I am a novice and though I've been using Calibre for some time I certainly don't know how to use all the features. I've found that going to the FAQs sometimes is very frustrating.

We've always had trouble striking the right balance between providing enough information to be useful to people when working out complicated problems, and making the answers short enough to be easy to read. What we've got is far from perfect but it's good enough most of the time.

From the advice above I cannot find how to create a Calibre debug log but do see how to email a log from CC. I have just done that. Again, thank you.

Getting a Calibre debug log isn't hard. On my Mac, when starting Calibre, the option is in the "Preferences" menu at the top of the screen. I assume it's in a similar place on a PC. Once Calibre is restarted in debug mode, try to connect again. Then close Calibre and email me the file that gets opened up automatically.

I need to see the Calibre log since the CC log only tells half the story. What I can see in the log is that you've tried to connect a few times in both Wireless Device mode and Content Server mode. Most of the time, CC thinks it finds Calibre but then it doesn't manage to complete the connection. In more technical terms, CC sends a broadcast on your WiFi network, receives a response from a computer at IP address 192.168.0.8, and then nothing happens for 15 seconds after it tries to connect. The strange part is that it manages to get an answer of some kind, and then fails to connect. I know the post is long, but there's some advice in this FAQ page that might help: http://cc_faq.multipie.co.uk/index.p...d=7&artlang=en The more general FAQ on connections is here.

What I really want is list of titles and authors of the books I have in Calibre on my iPad.

This is mostly what CC does. The "Wireless Device" method connects, and then lets you send in bulk your books from your computer to your iPad. Batches of no more than a few hundred at a time work best. Once the books are on your iPad, you can see more than just the titles and authors; the entire book is there so you can open it for reading. (Note that you'll need a separate Reader app. There are lots of good ones, and iBooks itself is passably good!)

"Content Server" is more of a way of browsing the books on Calibre without transferring them. It shows you a list of the books available and you can download them one at a time. This works better for a small number of books, or if you can connect to your computer without being physically in front of it.