[GUI Plugin] Amazon Send to Kindle via Email with "Series" support

[brynstntn]

Amazon Send to Kindle via Email with "Series" Support workaround

This is a fairly niche plugin, but it builds on calibre's existing "Sharing books by email" functionality to make it more useful for Kindle users. Amazon's software on the kindle isn't great at organizing books, this helps a bit.

Email settings are still configured in calibre's built-in "Sharing books by email" section

The plugin adds a calibre toolbar button that emails selected books to your Kindle's Send to Kindle email address, using a configurable filename template that puts the series name and number first.

Why this matters

When you send books to your Kindle using calibre's built-in Connect/share → Email to functionality, the books generally arrive under their individual titles. If you send an entire series, they can end up scattered throughout your Kindle library and out of reading order.

For example:

Oathbringer
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance

This plugin lets you name the files using a calibre template that puts the series and number first:

The Stormlight Archive [01] - The Way of Kings.epub
The Stormlight Archive [02] - Words of Radiance.epub
The Stormlight Archive [03] - Oathbringer.epub

This makes it easier to keep a series together and find the next book in the correct reading order, especially when your Kindle library contains multiple series.

Amazon may derive a book's displayed name from the attachment filename or the title metadata embedded in the EPUB, depending on the file. To account for this, the plugin updates both the filename and the metadata in the temporary copy it sends.

Your calibre library is left untouched. Only the temporary copy prepared for emailing is renamed and updated.

GitHub: https://github.com/matthewbstanton/c...send-to-kindle