Calibre came highly recommended (thanks Dear Author!) and looks to be exactly what I've been looking for, if I could just get it to work
I have approximately 600 ebooks, most of them purchased directly from epublishers, in .prc. I do have some purchased through retailers that have DRM protection, but I'm not worried about those right now. I've tried adding books to the library one at a time, small batches (5-15) and once with the whole directory. Each time, about half of the books came through with some or all of their meta data, and can be viewed. The rest, however, give me the "This book is protected by DRM error". At this point, I'd be fine with adding in the data by hand, but I'm assuming that not being able to view the books means I will also not be able to convert them so that they can be read on my iPhone, which makes it all sort of pointless.
I am using Vista and have the latest version of Calibre. I've tried deleting the books, uninstalling the program and reinstalling it, a couple of times, but it made no difference.
Any help would be much appreciated.
KB
(also, I might as well be greedy and ask if there is any way to pull the data in from the Mobipocket library, if it can't be read directly from the files, for whatever reason?)