Hi everyone thank you for your replies. Maybe I misstated the stage of learning I am at. I am able to open calibre, import books, get them to the device. If I had a small collection of items this would probably be good enough.
However I have 100gb of files at the moment and that's not counting an old hard drive that has my previous library on it which I'll be adding back. Plus I've been learning how to use wget

So it's only gonna get worse. I do plan to push this to do what I want if I can. I am just having a hard time with getting a grasp of it to get going because it's so hard to see what is going on.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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Thank you those are handy. I didn't know about the ability to change the lefthand column via "user categories" and now I also see I can remove the sections I don't need. This is better so I can actually use the epic tag system I am creating.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
My advice would be to install just calibre and the DeDRM plugin.
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I tried installing this the other day but got confused in the various documentations. Today with no changes everything seems to be working. hm
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Then import your ebooks, checking that the DRM is getting stripped. Metadata will be read from the books, but might need some adjustments.
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How?
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Originally Posted by stumped
1. is calibre's main purpose - it will do that for do " you of the box"
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I think this might be the most difficult thing to achieve.. I have zillions of files on many subjects. Many don't have complete/any/correct meta data so it needs to be added. It's a reason why I'm interested in getting things set up properly from the beginning—I don't want to spend ages going through manually updating meta data only to learn that there was a better way to do it, or start using some plugin that adds another field or something and I have to go and re-do everything. (To whatever extent that's possible.)
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Originally Posted by DNSB
The Annotations plugin will transfer the notes from myclippings.txt to calibre.
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OK thank you. I can see that I have installed this tho I haven't looked too closely at it, I will do.
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Originally Posted by stumped
so he may appreciate a detailed step by step walkthrough of that. it's not a plug in that I use, myself
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Thank you for your thoughts. I will try following the existing
documentation tho before asking for more help. No need to reinvent the wheel.