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Originally Posted by Sirtel
A Kindle has to index its books, so yes, loading books to a Kindle takes longer and of course you cannot manage Kindle collections/metadata automatically with Calibre.
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I am shocked to hear this. I've never used a Kindle, but I would have thought Calibre was set up to organize files for the most popular e-reader type. Is there something intrinsic to Kindles that prevent this?
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I don't see the point in a dB for a personal ereader. I guess if you have 1000+ books, but the OS again is perfectly suited to handle those sort of numbers. Indeed, the Linux OS is more capable of sorting large numbers of files than Kobos internal DB. I suppose a DB will offer extra functional, but I'm not sure what? Doing a cross book text search? I feel that most users will never use it. But enlighten me. DB on an ereader. What's the advantage over folders?
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Does DB mean database here? I'm a little confused by what you mean here. Are you referring to a collection of metadata?
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I prefer the android "library" system. It's just system folders, a natural function of The OS. I find messing with collections in calibre a superfluous pain. Much easier to simply use a file explorer to drag the file into the appropriate folder on the reader. Done. I appreciate this doesnt include meta data. What does the average user use metada for, other than author, title, and maybe series?
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I used to want to set things up this way (much like how Internet Explorer organized bookmarks), but my library is too large, plus it wouldn't really work if I want to organize books in more than one way.