General Calibre Questions

[Rattyjunk984]

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and new to e readers and have a few basic questions.

I have various e-books named in various ways and I various folders. I wondered before I fire up Calibre if I could just get a few pointers,

Q1 I understand that Calibre has it's own naming structure.. Will this mean that Calibre will rename and move all my books into a set folder structure within the source folder?

Q2 Owning a new KOBO Clara Colour, what plugins should I be considering adding to my Calibre install?

Q3 Any tips starting out?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Rattyjunk984

I have various e-books named in various ways and I various folders. I wondered before I fire up Calibre if I could just get a few pointers,

Q1 I understand that Calibre has it's own naming structure.. Will this mean that Calibre will rename and move all my books into a set folder structure within the source folder?

Yes, calibre stores books in it's library folder using it's naming convention. Please treat calibre's library as a black box. Also do not store your calibre library on network storage. The comment about using a NAS, cloud service, whatever is "It's not a matter of if your library gets corrupted, it's when it gets corrupted".

Adding books to calibre's library does not move the books so your original copies are left in their directories. An exception is Auto-add which does delete the originals after adding library copies.

Originally Posted by Rattyjunk984

Q2 Owning a new KOBO Clara Colour, what plugins should I be considering adding to my Calibre install?

I would suggest the KoboUtilities plugin. The KoboTouch driver is part of the basic calibre install. If you want to send kepubs rather than epubs, you can add the KoboTouchExtended driver. The DeDRM plugin is an useful plugin that you will need to add and discuss outside of MobileRead, download the latest from:
https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools...lease/releases.

For your Kobo, I would recommend adding NickelMenu: An integrated launcher for Kobo eReaders.

Originally Posted by Rattyjunk984

Q3 Any tips starting out?

Start using calibre and reading on your Kobo. From that experience you can decide what addons/plugins/patches you want to use.

[PeterT]

Calibre will create a copy of all your books in it's own location; the calibre library. Your original content will remain wherever it was. Don't make the common mistake of playing around with the files ) folders in the calibre location; accept it for what it is; a database totally managed / controlled by calibre.

Plugins come down to personal preferences. The only one I'd really recommend is the Kobo Utilities, namely because it provides an easy means to backup the database that the Kobo maintains of all content on the device.

Beyond that you enter one of the religious discussion points. Some people feel that they will only read epubs if they have been converted into the kepub format; others are very happy with the Epub format. The difference is the reading engine on the Kobo. Epubs use an older version of the Adobe RMSDK library, while kepubs use an engine whose name I forget but used to be called Access.

If you want kepub then you also require to install the Kobo Touch Extended plugin which will do the conversion on the fly as content is sent to the Kobo.

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[gbm]

The plugin's that I consider a must have with a Kobo:
ACSM--formerly known as DeACSM--use in place of ADE.

DeDRM --See DNSB post.

Kobo Utilities

I recommend using epub unless the ebook you are reading has epub3 features you like then convert to kepub. I use the Kepub Output plugin.


bernie

Originally Posted by Rattyjunk984

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and new to e readers and have a few basic questions.

I have various e-books named in various ways and I various folders. I wondered before I fire up Calibre if I could just get a few pointers,

Q1 I understand that Calibre has it's own naming structure.. Will this mean that Calibre will rename and move all my books into a set folder structure within the source folder?

Q2 Owning a new KOBO Clara Colour, what plugins should I be considering adding to my Calibre install?

Q3 Any tips starting out?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Rattyjunk984

Q2 Owning a new KOBO Clara Colour, what plugins should I be considering adding to my Calibre install?

The Reading List plugin is also very useful.

[theducks]

Quality Check Plugin
This is a Swiss Army knife to help
spotting and cleaning metadata of variations (AND SO MUCH MORE)

Look for the author Kiwidude... those are almost all useful for tasks associated with starting up from a before Calibre collection

[hatuluang]

Smart eject plugins, top-level device eject button.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hatuluang

Smart eject plugins, top-level device eject button.

How is this a question? If it's an answer, you need to quote the question.

[PeterT]

Jon; he's just posting another plugin that he considers useful.

Why on earth do you feel the need to be so obtuse all the time!

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[DNSB]

Did anyone notice any of the other posts after the OP's original post that were formatted as questions?

[Rattyjunk984]

Hi guys, I really appreciate all the information you provided last year but due to various issues in my personal life I haven’t even touched the Kobo Clara Colour or Calibre.

I’ve finally got around to installing Calibre and reading through the helpful posts…

I had a few questions again if you would be so kind…

1) When I installed Calibre the setup wizards asked me select what Kobo family my e-book reader belonged to ‘kobo box, aura and glow families or the kobo and kobo touch readers’ I selected Vox but only found one suggestion of this so is this correct for my Kobo Clara colour?

2) I think I’m going with epub’s so won’t be using the Kobotouch extended plugin . I can’t however seem to locate the kobo utilities plugin. It doesn’t show when I do a search in Calibre?

Are there any major changes to the info you provided last year or am I good.

Again, thank you for all the help before and if you can just clarify the few things I’ve asked I should be set

[PeterT]

For any Kobo eInk reader I'd select the Kobo / kobo Touch option.

The Kobo extended driver is no longer needed (or even installable) for kepub format since calibre 8.0.

The Kobo Utilities plugin is found under calibre Preferences | Plugins | Get new plugins button

[Rattyjunk984]

Thank you Peter 😀