Unintended Consequences of Using Save To Disk Feature In Calibre? - Page 2

93terp · 07-25-2016, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by shalym

Hi--are you doing the "save to disk" directly to the Kindle, or are you doing it to the PC first, and then dragging over *only* the book file, and not the cover or the .opf file?

Shari

My workflow is -

1. Save to disk on PC first (using Genre as my top level folder, then within each Genre folder there's a sub-folder for each author which contains the book file - .mobi - and .jpg cover and .opf file).

2. Drag & drop Genre folders to the /documents folder on the Kindle.

One of the "quirks" I've noticed so far is that about 75% of the covers are not showing up on the Kindle, even though each book's .jpg file is copied over.

theducks · 07-25-2016, 12:51 PM

You should NEVER do anything like that to things in the official Library folders.
Calibre has tools to update the books INSIDE the Library. Pulish and Update Metadata.

Next: Why are you using the O/S (which does not do all the neat, additional Kindle things)?
Metadata Plugboards offer to insert or modify Kindle recognized fields.
Calibre does an outstanding job sending books to a Kindle
I use USB with the plugboard set to insert series_index into the title.
I also use Kindle Collections to turn Series into a 'Collection" (coupled with the plugboard use, series in reading order

)

93terp · 07-25-2016, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by theducks

You should NEVER do anything like that to things in the official Library folders.

I have absolutely no idea what you mean with this...please clarify.

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Next: Why are you using the O/S (which does not do all the neat, additional Kindle things)?

Again, not sure what you mean by "...using the O/S"? Please clarify.

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Metadata Plugboards offer to insert or modify Kindle recognized fields.

Yes, I know. I have the "standard" metadata plugboard to insert the author sort field.

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I also use Kindle Collections to turn Series into a 'Collection" (coupled with the plugboard use, series in reading order

)

I have no desire to jailbreak my Kindle Voyage, which is required for Kindle Collections plugin usage.

shalym · 07-25-2016, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

You should NEVER do anything like that to things in the official Library folders.
Calibre has tools to update the books INSIDE the Library. Pulish and Update Metadata.

Next: Why are you using the O/S (which does not do all the neat, additional Kindle things)?
Metadata Plugboards offer to insert or modify Kindle recognized fields.
Calibre does an outstanding job sending books to a Kindle
I use USB with the plugboard set to insert series_index into the title.
I also use Kindle Collections to turn Series into a 'Collection" (coupled with the plugboard use, series in reading order

)

From what I can see, 93terp is using the save to disk feature to save the books to a folder on his/her hard drive, and then copying that folder to the Kindle. He/she is not touching the official library folders at all.

Am I stating things correctly, 93terp?

Shari

93terp · 07-25-2016, 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shalym

From what I can see, 93terp is using the save to disk feature to save the books to a folder on his/her hard drive, and then copying that folder to the Kindle. He/she is not touching the official library folders at all.

Am I stating things correctly, 93terp?

Shari

That is 100% correct, Shari.

Dopedangel · 07-28-2016, 02:42 AM

I don't use kindle so I am guessing only about the difference in filesize maybe it is because sending directly by calibre sends the newer mobi format which has both the new and old version mobi. And saving to disk is just saving 1 kind. But I am just guessing as I have never used kindle or mobi format.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,056 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You should NEVER do anything like that to things in the official Library folders. Calibre has tools to update the books INSIDE the Library. Pulish and Update Metadata. Next: Why are you using the O/S (which does not do all the neat, additional Kindle things)? Metadata Plugboards offer to insert or modify Kindle recognized fields. Calibre does an outstanding job sending books to a Kindle I use USB with the plugboard set to insert series_index into the title. I also use Kindle Collections to turn Series into a 'Collection" (coupled with the plugboard use, series in reading order )

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Dopedangel Wizard Posts: 1,793 Karma: 30548723 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Singapore Device: Boyue	I don't use kindle so I am guessing only about the difference in filesize maybe it is because sending directly by calibre sends the newer mobi format which has both the new and old version mobi. And saving to disk is just saving 1 kind. But I am just guessing as I have never used kindle or mobi format.