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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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C will extract the ISBN from the file... if it is there to begin with, and that is the problem I run into most of the time. The metadata on ebooks does not seem to be standard so at times things are missing. I even noticed that a book I download from Amazon has the author as "King, Stephen," and I have to change it all the time. Not only that but they also dont have the ISBN associated with it to I have to get the info when I edit the meta data to get it to look like I want.
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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. |
It is hard to find a book that is sold without DRM. The only times I have found them is from self published authors who can write a great story but cant get a book deal.
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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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Anything that you put into the Calibre library directory will be a duplicate. Once you import the book from where ever you have it initially you can delete it. That is what I do.
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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.  |
You can click on the rotating hour glass when you connect your reader and it will tell you what it is doing. I am willing to bet that is it just collecting data from your reader and building you a list of the books you have there. An easy test is to add a new book and then connect your reader to see if it transfers. Right now Calibre does not have the ability to differentiate between one reader or another. And by that I mean it cannot what reader has what book. It was asked a while back and the issue is that currently Calibre would need to extract the serial number from the reader to remember who has what.
Calibre is smart enough to know what formats go with what readers though
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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. |
No need to imagine! Been there, still doing that
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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?
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Yes, you can edit before or after you import it. Calibre know that the book is there but not what is inside the book. As for detecting the chapter headings and ToC, Calibre will detect them.
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Thanks bunches for all of your knowlege and assistance!
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