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iolusia · 05-27-2009, 10:13 AM

Hello,

I have about 40Gb of ebooks in my computer. Most of them in several kind of files: doc, pdf, lrf, rtf, becouse I had a PRS500 and I had to try several times which kind of file worked better in the ereader.

The question is that I use Calibre, not only for convert to lrf, but mostly to keep a database of all the ebooks. I've made this choice because I haven't to write one by one all the data of every one single book, but add the book or the directory and Calibre makes more than the 80% of the whole work.

The "problem" is that calibre doesn't manage .doc files, so it doesn't recognize them. I have read some posts explaining the extra-job that will be that calibre will convert from doc. I understand that and I am not asking for the conversion. The question is:

There will be any possibility that Calibre can manage .doc files just to arrange them in the library as all the other files it can manage? Just for its use as a book manager?

Thanks and best regards.

05-27-2009, 10:13 AM	#1
iolusia Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Spain Device: PRS505 and PRS500	using calibre as library database. Doc are not handled Hello, I have about 40Gb of ebooks in my computer. Most of them in several kind of files: doc, pdf, lrf, rtf, becouse I had a PRS500 and I had to try several times which kind of file worked better in the ereader. The question is that I use Calibre, not only for convert to lrf, but mostly to keep a database of all the ebooks. I've made this choice because I haven't to write one by one all the data of every one single book, but add the book or the directory and Calibre makes more than the 80% of the whole work. The "problem" is that calibre doesn't manage .doc files, so it doesn't recognize them. I have read some posts explaining the extra-job that will be that calibre will convert from doc. I understand that and I am not asking for the conversion. The question is: There will be any possibility that Calibre can manage .doc files just to arrange them in the library as all the other files it can manage? Just for its use as a book manager? Thanks and best regards.