From Sony T1 to New Kindle Paperwhite

[booklover6]

No, you can use the Kindle without registering.

Registering doesn't affect how Calibre works with the Kindle.

Yeah, that is one thing I don't like about the Kobo, having to register. That was a nice thing about the Sony I had. I prefer not to have to register it.

However, if you don't register your Kindle, you can't use collections. Although since the last update, you might not want to, anyway.

[Blue2u]

Originally Posted by booklover6

No, you can use the Kindle without registering.

Registering doesn't affect how Calibre works with the Kindle.

Yeah, that is one thing I don't like about the Kobo, having to register. That was a nice thing about the Sony I had. I prefer not to have to register it.

However, if you don't register your Kindle, you can't use collections. Although since the last update, you might not want to, anyway.

Ah, again, THANK YOU!

I did end up converting the books I wanted to transfer to AZW3 as you suggested, just seemed safest to me.

[booklover6]

Welcome! I hope you are enjoying your gift!

I always convert in Calibre, because I always open it up and look at it before I put it on a device. I use the Sigil plug in within Calibre, which makes editing so easy. No more excerpts, excess advertising, pictures, etc, at the end of my books!

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

THANK YOU SO MUCH! So far the library is working perfectly except for 1 thing, author sort is showing [for example] as Veronica Roth, not Roth, Veronica. Is there an easy way to change this? [I made a column to show how it would sort to the KPW by the plugin data].

Officially, this cannot be done, as the Kindle uses the comma to recognize "Lastname, Firstname". It'll swap those, and remove the comma, but it will STILL sort on Lastname. I find this annoying.

Use this plugboard in place of the one Booklover6 gave you to sort-of-fix-it:

{author_sort:re(\, ,_)} {series:|(|} {series_index:0>2s||)}

It'll do this:

Title of the book
Lastname_Firstname (Series Name 01)

Or, of course, combine Booklover6's plugboard with mine, if you prefer her formatting for series and index

{author_sort:re(\, ,_)}{series:| - | }{series_index:0>2s| - | }

Result:

Title of the book
Lastname_Firstname - Series Name - 01

[Blue2u]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Officially, this cannot be done, as the Kindle uses the comma to recognize "Lastname, Firstname". It'll swap those, and remove the comma, but it will STILL sort on Lastname. I find this annoying.

Use this plugboard i place of the one Booklover6 gave you to sort-of-fix-it:

{author_sort:re(\, ,_)} {series:|(|} {series_index:0>2s||)}

It'll do this:

Title of the book
Lastname_Firstname (Series Name 01)

Or, of course, combine Booklover6's plugboard with mine, if you prefer her formatting for series and index

{author_sort:re(\, ,_)}{series:| - | }{series_index:0>2s| - | }

Resut:

Title of the book
Lastname_Firstname - Series Name 01

Well that's exactly what I needed to finish! Thank you SO much for taking the time to reply! [karma to you!] The only little tweak I made was to change the series count to allow for .5 of series [and I only remembered this because I did it with my Sony too!]

{author_sort:re(\, ,_)}{series:| - | }{series_index:0>4.1f| - | }


Thanks again everyone who helped and I hope this can help someone else out!

[Katsunami]

You're welcome Have a nice Christmas

Oh, by the way: stop lying

If you understand plugboards, you're not technically challenged. At least not when it comes to Calibre I think plugboards and regular expressions (in the Metadata Editor) are the two options most difficult to understand for many people.

[Blue2u]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

You're welcome Have a nice Christmas

Oh, by the way: stop lying

If you understand plugboards, you're not technically challenged. At least not when it comes to Calibre I think plugboards and regular expressions (in the Metadata Editor) are the two options most difficult to understand for many people.

Merry Christmas to you as well!
And seriously, I am SO tech-challenged, I literally copy/pasted any plugboards when I did my T1 and had to be walked through step-by-step.[I think it was Jackie that helped me way back then]. But I am a bit OCD and knew I had to have the .5 series specification. Sometimes the OCD wins out over the fear of messing things up!

Thank you so much again.

[Katsunami]

I didn't think about the .5 series actually. It's a good idea. I have a few series that later got expanded by fitting short stories with background information in between the main books.