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Originally Posted by JackErbes
@ kacir,
You mentioned your long use and happiness with using Calibre so I looked at the page for your PocketBook 360 device to see if it is similar to my Kindle K4NT device. If I understand the manual for your reader right, it displays your book holdings on the PocketBook as files or folders containing one or more files.
Is that correct? And to use it do you connect to a storage device or web site and download or copy books to your device? Again storing them in a files or folders and files system like is used in DOS or Windows?
The reason I ask is because that is how I am trying to use the Kindle and it does not work very well. If you read the "detailed answer" info at this link it describes the metadata concept.
Want to change folder structure or file names in the Calibre library? - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=119175
Jack |
Kindle is very different from PocketBook.
PocketBook and other selected readers support browsing hierarchical directories from the device, similar to PC or Android. Kindle only displays flat file list regardless of any elaborate file structure you create using Calibre.
When I had Kindle PaperWhite 1 I have installed alternative reading software to the reader so I could use advanced text formatting and browse hierarchical directories with books.
So with PocketBook and nowadays with my other e-ink readers I simply use "save to disk" functionality in Calibre and transfer the directory with books to the device via USB cable or using an SD card. I also use "create catalog" functionality in Calibre to create a list of books that I am exporting to a directory. This way you might be even be able to use Kindle flat file list. Export books to directory, transfer books to Kindle using Cable, transfer list of books in the form of catalog.mobi. Open Catalog, select a book and use search function in Kindle to locate the book in the loooong list of books.
Or try to load alternative program to Kindle that can browse hierarchical directories.
Be careful, do not load too many books to your Kindle at once. It will try to index the books and that might take a long time. There might be ways to prevent that but I do not follow development. This is just one of many issues with Kindle readers that make me prefer other brands.