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Originally Posted by Deb
If any of these are dups of resolved problems and you can point me to the threads, I would appreciate it greatly. I have a hard time with the search function returning usable information.
1) Is there some way that Calibre can pull the ISBN info from a book's copyright information page to get metadata?
2) I pulled down a free Kindle book to try converting it to LRF, but it had a protection lock on it. How do I know what books will be convertable, or am I missing somthing? (not a new situation...)
3) I have run into a situation where I have two Edgar Rice Burroughs directories, one with duplicate titles but no numbers in parentheses (352, for example). Which files can I delete without my Calibre not being able to find the book?
4) Apparently, Calibre updates my Sony-700 reader automatically when I plug it in, and I don't have to manually send books to it?
5) When I've added a bunch of new titles to my Calibre folder, what's the easiest way of Adding Books? Do I need to remember what authors I've added, or can I just tell it to add everything without getting dupes? I know for small amounts it catches them, but I've got almost 400 books as of right now and have room on my memory chip for about 8k.
6) I have most of the Oz books in Word.doc or .txt formats. Do I just put them in the Calibre folder and run the convert program to make them .lrf books? Also, after I've converted from one format to the other, can I just delete the one I don't want
I know some of these are probably 'duh' questions, but I'm way behind on tech stuff. MSDOS? I'm great at that, but then I got left behind.
Many thanks for your assistance and forebearance.
db
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1. Calibre will try to get the ISBN and other meta data if it has enough information. For me, I have found that with the book title and author it does a good job in locating the rest of the information.
2. Any book you get from Amazon will have DRM (protection) so you will not be able to convert it. The protection can be remove but that is a whole other story.
3. Calibre assigns a number at the end of a book title in parenthesis... if it hoes not contain them then it is not in the Calibre library. When Calibre imports a book, it is copied over to the Calibre library directory and assigned its own number. There should be no reason as to why there would be a dirrectory with a number and an identical one without... unless when you installed calibre you selected your library location to be the same place where you kept your ebooks to begin with...
4. Calibre does not automatically update your reader. All it does is take a look at the reader and see what books are on the reader after you connect it. If you want to send a book to the reader then you have to send it manually.
5. The easiest way I found it to simply drag and drop the book into Calibre. It will then attempt to read the meta data from the file and then Calibre will place the book in the correct place. If you try to add a book that is already there it will know, warn you about it, and give you the option to add the book anyhow or to cancel. Keep in mind though that if the metadata is incorrect then you may end up with duplicate book. Also remember that Stephen King and King Stephen are two different authors so you are going to have to watch how you have your books and you also have to be carefull with spaces. If there is an extra space after King then, well, you have a third author...
6. Yes, add them as a txt or word document and then convert away. You can then select the book you want, click on the edit metadata button, and on the top right you can select the format that you dont want and delete it.