[elPedr0]

I'm getting to grips with my family's ebooks - previously stuck on our individual readers.

I've got calibre-server running on a linux server and calibre-web on the same box providing a friendly, well-featured interface for each of the users to browse books and send them to their devices. Everything's central and each user can log on from any terminal or mobile device without installing or configuring anything - so far so good.

However, there are some things in my workflow (as the general family librarian) that I still need to optimise and would love some tips. Two questions have already arisen:

1) When populating the library by importing books from an ereader, I often want to take advantage of plugins that would be available within the calibre GUI, but that don't necessarily support a headless setup. Those of you with a headless setup - do you use a separate isolated instance of calibre on a desktop to prepare the ebooks to your satisfaction and then 'calibredb add' the modified ebooks into the headless calibre database?

2) Our collection has a mix of formats mostly AZW3 and MOBI but also AZW, EPUB, and PRC. Do you tend to convert everything to a single format when you intially import, or do you just leave each file in its original format and convert each time a user sends it to a reader (if necessary)?

Answers to these questions and any other headless tips are welcome