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Old 05-09-2025, 02:37 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by pmh View Post
Hi all,

new to the forum, using Calibre for a couple of years and really enjoying the experience. I manage my library of ebooks (ePub format) and sync with a pocketbook reader. So far so good.

My question is which approach to take - or what you are doing - for a large collection of PDF documents that do not really fit the "book" metaphor well - scientific articles, magazines, manuals ... accumulated over more than two decades. (I'm old )

Besides the metadata that does not fit a "publisher, author, title" format, many of those documents are formatted for a fixed page size like letter or A4, also frequently colour, and are not readable on a handy s/w e-ink device like my pocketbook.

I'm pondering if I should still go ahead and throw them all in Calibre and limit syncing to ePub. Then possibly use the filtering features.

Or just use folders and the Mac OS builtin spotlight.

Or is there anything else that do not yet know? Hence this post.


Thanks in advance for comments, kind regards,
Patrick
If you actually want to read these PDF, I suggest you get a tablet to use to read them. Your Pocketbook is going to be awful trying to read those PDF and converting to ePub is going to be a mess.
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