Intro and help please

[Wanderdragon]

I have downloaded my Calibre on my new Dell all in one Windows 10 computer. I don't know what most of the stuff it does is and I don't care. All I want it for is to keep up with my books so I am not buying books I already have read. I am a voracious reader. It irritates me that they change the book covers so often and I sometimes buy the same book 3 or 4 times because I like the author and they changed the cover. Over 50 years worth of books, you have a tendency to do that.

Although I do have to say that the place where you add books is confusing on how it adds books. I always click the one that says "Add Books from directories including subdirectories (Multiple books per directory assumes every ebook file is a different book) as that is the only one I didn't have to try and figure out which wierdo number is the book that I just downloaded in the folder I have labled Kindle Book files on my computer. I just browsed found my file and clicked open. Then click add files or whatever it says down there on the bottom I have like 4 or 5 options which are not that clear to someone who is not computer saavy.

I am trying to put the Find Duplicate plugin in the calibre 2.63 64 bit by David Koval (that is what it says at the bottom left of the screen on my Calibre when I open it up. I have the plug in downloaded it to my extra hard drive and I unzipped it. I can delete that and redownload. I understand I messed up. I tried downloading it to program files and calibre plugins, but the computer told me I couldn't. So where do I download it?

But my issue is I cannot find a button or link on the preference like it says here "In Calibre choose Preferences->Plugins. Click the Load plugin from file button (Calibre 0.8.6 or later) or Add new plugin button (Calibre 0.8.5 or earlier) to browse to your plugin .zip file and click OK." All I got on the user plugins page is a link to this plugin homepage. and a greyed out button that says customize plugin and 2 buttons that say install and ok. I have NO plugins installed so.... Can someone please help me?

Thank you.

Hugs,

Wanda

[Divingduck]

You don't need to download the plugin that way. There are 3 ways to do get a plugin within calibre.
1. Click on the little arrow down on the right side and then in the sub menu "Get plugins..." (picture 1) to open the plugin window (picture 3)
2. Or, if there is no preference icon in your toolbar, simply use keyboard shortcut [Strg+p] to open the preference window and choose "Plugins" (picture 2) and then "Get new plugins" (picture 4) to open the plugin window (picture 3)
3) In the "Get new plugins" (picture 4) you can import also a downloaded plugin as ZIP-File (don't unzip the file!). Simply click on "Load plugin from file.

In the window for managing plugins (picture 3) you can choose the plugin you looking for. Take attention on the filter at top of the window. Depending from where you come from the filter is preselected. You can click on the column header for a sorted listing

[BetterRed]

@Wanderdragon - see my response to your post in the Find Duplicates thread Find Duplicates - Post 581 (← click)

I recommend newcomers watch the video in here ==>> Video Tutorials

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[pdurrant]

Not really WanderDragon's fault. I moved her question here from the Introductions forum without checking to see whether she had also posted here.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Not really WanderDragon's fault. I moved her question here from the Introductions forum without checking to see whether she had also posted here.

@pdurrant - consider yourself suitably admonished.

I'll leave the gentle rebuke there as a reminder to others

BR