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Thank you for the one piece of information that enabled me to solve the problem -- that there's an icon that I can add that has the control I need to start wireless mode (although it belongs in the Preferences/Network Connections menu as well).. I don't recall ever having seen this icon in many years of Calibre usage. I may have deleted the icon back when I was starting out, running Version 1.x with a Kindle connected via USB years and years ago and didn't need the extraneous icon from taking up room that an important icon like "Kindle Collections" needed.
I suggest that a sentence along the lines of "If you don't see this icon on your taskbar, add it via the "Preferences/Interface/Toolbars" menu - it is provided with the default Calibre install"
To answer your other questions, "Kindle Collections" is not a "Column made from other Columns", so I failed to see the relevance, and "how do I add my custom columns" required a run of the missing "wireless connection". I didn't use "Download all" because the docs/FAQs/Forum postings explicitly warned against doing so if I had more than a few hundred books.
I'm still curious why the developers don't support USB connections to communicate with Calibre, which would allow me to not have to open ports on my Calibre library machine. Presumably a "Calibre Companion" plugin, similar to a Kindle or Kobo plugin could be written to accomplish this.
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