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Originally Posted by NormalToblerone
Are there any other plug ins you use? Also, I have been hearing people talk about "collections", what are those?
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Can I suggest a step between 1 and 2:
Use the device and work out what it does and how to use it.
Without that, you don't actually know which of your later steps are needed.
But for your steps:
Step 2 should be done after 4. You can't do some of the others with the device connected. And there is no reason to have the device connected while doing them.
For the first Step 3, just use the "Tablet" profile. There won't be any actual difference, but, if you have another device, it's a little less confusing.
For the second Step 3, this is completely optional. Only do it if you only want to use Kepubs on the device. Many don't want to.
Step 4 is also optional. Calibre will send a supported format, or convert during the send-to-disk. The only real reason to do it ahead of time is if you need to customise the conversion for each book.
For metadata, use whatever metadata sources you want to. None of them are completely accurate.
For the cover, the device generates the covers from the book. For kepubs, it extracts the image that is marked as the cover and size that as needed. For epubs and other formats, it renders the first page and uses that as the cover. That means that the cover you see for an epub, depends on the code in the first page as much as the actual image. The driver has options to send the cover images which means calibre generates them from the cover in the library. That will downscale the cover to the size the device uses, but it wont upscale them.