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Old 06-15-2010, 07:20 AM   #24
kgn
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
I've been reading that thread, but not having a Kindle, it's hard to even discern what difficulty you are having. Are you saying you directly access Calibre's Library folders, or just that you prefer Saving to Disk first, then drag/drop? I find it hard to think of any circumstance where direct access is preferable.
I can think of one without even trying - speed!

Calibre is very slow in transferring data to the reader. It takes me 15+ minutes to send 700 books (only one format) to my Pocketbook 302.

I can simply copy the Calibre internal files across using Explorer is a minute or so.

And another quick reason. Calibre does not remove problems. Let us say you notice a typo in a book title - so you change it. If you then send out that book to your device, you will now have that book on the device twice. A more common reason is that you notice the Author/Title fields are back to front. So you fix it. What is now on the device??

No - I find it is heaps quicker to wipe sections of your device with Explorer (ie certain folders, not everything), then simply copy the corrected folders back across from the internal Calibre files.

This might not always work, of course. Sometimes you have to 'Save to disk' to get the right format - then copy those files across.

It can get very messy!
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