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Originally Posted by rcuadro
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.
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It does this when I do the individual metadata search, but by having the ISBN for the PB edition of my e-book I get exactly the description and cover I want. Mostly I go to FantasticFiction.com and look up the ISBN there. So much easier if C could pull the ISBN from the publishing information and use that for the search. From what I'm hearing (reading) this is something that is being considered, not yet implemented.
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Originally Posted by rcuadro
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.
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Amazon = evil. I was a small independent book store owner when Amazon was starting by going millions of dollars in debt while I only owed in the low thousands. Guess which one of us is still around. The moral? Become 'too big to fail'.
But the protection is also inherant in the books I get from BoB and e-Diesel. You would think that since the books can only be read on authorized machines they wouldn't care what format you put it in. On the other hand, you'd think the publishers would take e-book cost savings into account when pricing their items. Baen Books is the only one I know of who does that, so I get all of my Baen directly from their website.
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Originally Posted by rcuadro
3. Calibre assigns a number at the end of a book title in parenthesis... if it does 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...
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Yes, when I pull books in, I put them in my Calibre library with subfolders and names to match the C formatting. Very rarely do I get dupes, but when I do, if I delete the wrong one I get the 'book not found' type message. Knowing the one with the number is the one I want will help me keep my database cleaned up.
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Originally Posted by rcuadro
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.
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I'm not sure this is totally correct, unless I've done something without realizing it (a not impossible scenario). I've got about 400 books in C, and when I've tried to have it do a full library transfer it quits responding. On the other hand, my new items are on my SONY.
5. Yeah - I do frequent cleanups to get everybody in their proper places.
When I first got Calibre I had a little over 300 books. Imagine having to go through them 1 by 1 to get all the information corrected. Once again, FantasticFiction.com was a lifesaver as I could find the pb ISBN and do the metadata search on it, as well as finding out where in the series books belonged.
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Originally Posted by rcuadro
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.
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I'm presuming I can edit the initial docs before converting - no way for the program to know... Will C pick up chapter headings automatically or do I need to create a table of contents with Word?
Thanks bunches for all of your knowlege and assistance!
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