[Wonder-Woman]

Hello,

Happy New Year to everyone. As the title to my post says, New Year but same questions.

First a suggestion. I would like to suggest that there be a pinned post with current information and instructions for attempting to set up Calibre to handle Kindle books, along with the steps (not guaranteed to work) to attempt to convert Kindle books using Calibre to PDF (or any other preferred format). If that is possible I think it should be posted on the front page of the forum.

Now for my questions. I prefer to read eBooks in PDF format. I get most of my eBooks from Amazon which means, Kindle with it's dratted DRM and format issues that make it a nightmare if not impossible to do any sort of DRM removal and conversion to alternate formats.

I have Calibre installed on my Desktop computer and I have an a really ancient Kindle Paperwhite. I am currently trying to charge it up for the first tiem in a couple of years to get the S/N and model information out of it. I need a refresher course in what plugin(s) I need to add to Calibre and how to set them up.

My additional question is since I do have an old device and will hopefully be able to retrieve the S/N off of it, would entering the S/N into any of the plugins or the Calibre program itself make it possible to convert Kindle eBooks to PDF? If yes, then how do I do that?

My last question is I have an existing eBook library that I have been keeping for several years. The library is categorized into folders and sub folders. The books themselves are mostly PDF format and have been obtained over the years from tons of different sources including ones that I have been able to convert from Kindle format (ahhhh.....!! The good old days when converting worked easily!!). I did also have them in a Calibre library which I may or may not be able to locate, I do know that I can definitely locate the categorized library though. I tried to figure out how to get Calibre to recognize or pull in my categorized library but it wouldn't work. I don't remember the error messages because I attempted this maybe a year ago give or take. Can someone help me figure out how to import my categorized library into Calibre?

Thank you for all replies, they are appreciated.

Sincerely,

Wonder-Woman