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Old 01-04-2012, 10:28 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by ipsofacto View Post
Hello there...

I just bought me a Nook Simple Touch and I've read a lot of people mention Calibre as an ebook converter.

I assumed it was real simple.... I just add a bunch of pdf's or mobi's that I have into Calibre and create ePub versions. OK, thats fine... its apparently doing that it seems.

A few things. I noticed that a pdf may have a title, but when converted the title might be named something else totally. I found that I can go into edit metadata and simply rename the book with its rightful title. However that'd be a pain on many.

But right now this is very confusing... this 'save to disk'. Because, I don't understand whats the difference between that and a Calibre Library.

I was under the impression that all I needed to do was create a calibre library, then add whatever books I wanted to in that library...and if some needed to be converted to epub as well, I'd do that and the epub conversion gets added to the library as well.

So I was thinking, well, I'd really like to put books into categories or genres... like fiction, science, etc... so I figured out that I can create new calibre libraries with the name of whatever genre, then add books of that genre into that particular library and then I can simply switch between whichever library I want to look at.

I'm all correct so far in this assumption?

But then I saw this 'save to disk' thing in the toolbar...and I'm thinking...what the heck do you use that for if the calibre libraries already contained and saved my books?

Then I searched this forum and found the thread about "Managing subgroups of books, for example "genre" (long post)" and it just made my eyeballs spin!

Bottom line.... I'm no techie. I just want to create my libraries with different categories, add/convert books into them and then load them into my Nook. If its going to be more complicated than that, I'm shot!

Thanks!
Save to Disk = Export to a external (to the Library) Disk Drive (or a device that appears to be a disk to your OS)
Add to Library is autosaved.
Add Format (inside Metadata editor) is not saved until you accept (not Cancel) the current book details
I learned this by moving the file from MY to be added folder to MY done folder, before I exited the metadata... I got to see a nice missing file error message
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