kindle best practices for managing ebooks from various sources

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

Same here, not to mention it keeps track of my read status, series info and allows me to sync with my Goodreads account via a plugin. It has so much potential you could customize it meet practically every need that you have.

Nyn

It really does. I love Calibre! It seems when it doesn't do something I need I only need to wait a bit and then it's added.

Like I wanted so long for a way to auto remove Font Family and Colors from epubs and then behold a few months back that was added and I no longer have to manually tweak style sheets anymore to work in Mantano. Now I just check three boxes and hit convert. It's great! Works for mobi too.

[ndixon]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Having Calibre load your books, and using Whispersync are not incompatible. Content loaded by Calibre will still synch just fine.

The only slight niggle I've noted in doing it this way is that Whispersync puts files directly into the documents folder, whereas Calibre creates subfolders for authors; so you could end up with multiple copies of the same book, stored in different places by Whispersync and Calibre.

It's no problem, and easy enough to tidy up, just a little wrinkle.

[ndixon]

Originally Posted by emellaich

If you want best practices, then a third step would involve backing up your Calibre directory with Dropbox. Since you have multiple sources, including some DRM sources, your library is literally irreplaceable unless you want to repurchase it all. If your home catches on fire, you could loose your computer, your ereader, and your books if you don't use Dropbox.

This is a really good idea. I can't believe I didn't think of this.

[codrutoctavian]

Originally Posted by ndixon

The only slight niggle I've noted in doing it this way is that Whispersync puts files directly into the documents folder, whereas Calibre creates subfolders for authors; so you could end up with multiple copies of the same book, stored in different places by Whispersync and Calibre.

It's no problem, and easy enough to tidy up, just a little wrinkle.

In Calibre you can configure the Kindle plugin, there is checkbox somewhere there. You can uncheck this and and then when uploading the mobi files to Kindle then the files are placed directly in the /documents folder. But, apparently, someone else on the forum said that if there are many books (of the order of thousands) the performance will decrease if files are placed directly under /documents.