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Originally Posted by Rellwood
I guess starting with the metadata source plugins, Goodreads, and Goodreads More tags if they have standard books, or looking over the ones that interest them. ISBN extractor, Goodreads Sync to force an id if needed, Duplicate Finder, Page Count, Polish, Modify Epub, Quality Check. I always thing that having Get File Name is one of the most helpful yet underrated plugins.
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I do not use any of those and I have been using Calibre ever since it has been called LibPRS 500. Plus, I am pretty sure there are features that I consider absolutely essential that you might be even not aware are there.
For the most basic use you drag and drop an epub file or other ebook file and it shows up in your Calibre. You can view the book and send it to the device. You can double click and edit a name or author.
Many of the features are discoverable and intuitive, so users have no problem with basic searches, for example. And you build on those basics, slowly, just like we did a long time ago. I keep discovering cool features of Calibre even nowadays, and those are features that I am pretty sure have been there for a long time.
Like clicking on a book in Calibre and drag and drop copying it to a file manager. No need to open location, no need to export the book. Just drag it to the file manager. Works on Linux, works even with Krusader double-pane file manager.
It is in that regard like a Gvim text editor. Nobody is using all those wonderful features. It is not possible to know them all. Each user has an unique sub-group of basic and more advanced features that they use on a daily bases. And if you need to do something special, the feature you need is there, ready to be discovered. Just ask somewhere on a forum, or search very thorough documentation. or, nowadays, ask an AI. They will even craft an intricate regular expression you use to search or replace something, or filter or import or whatever.