05-28-2015, 01:59 AM | #16 |
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i use side by side. on Kindle Fire. I let amazon manage bought books directly from amazon and samples, CC manages everything else, including in some case, epub conversions of those same books which I have decided to read in mantano app instead. ( as I continue to flip over which reading app i prefer). Works for me, but I am minimalist, just one Fire & only a handful of current reading projects on the device at any one time.
if I switch to epub it is often because I don't care for the original published formatiing so by the time I have maneuvered the amazon book into calibre / sigil & tweaked it, to my liking, I will read in that format & not bother to convert back to AZW. plus it is less brain taxing to only have to remember epub = tweaked, azw = original. |
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I understand that CC + calibre's mode of operation isn't for you. What I say below is strictly for info in case someone else comes along.
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05-28-2015, 10:18 PM | #18 | |
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First, the primary reason that Calibre Companion won't work for me is that I am currently wedded to Amazon & Kindle Fires. Even when I download a book (usually public domain) from another web site, I do it from my Kindle Fire. In fact, I first got Calibre because Amazon treated such books as DOCS or, now Documents, rather than books and didn't save them to the cloud. So I used Calibre to remove the [pdoc] tag so they would show up under Books and/or to convert the book to a Kindle-friendly format. I also wanted to have one place where all my ebooks would exist, regardless of where I got them. Amazon does now store non-Amazon books in its Cloud, although they are stored separately in the Documents section which is, of course, very annoying. (I could have Book 1 of a series in Books and Book 2 in Documents. Sheesh) If, as an Amazon user, I wanted to separate my non-Amazon books from my Amazon books, then using Calibre Companion would make sense - especially if I acquired those books through the Calibre shopping option. But I don't want to separate my ebooks based on source of acquisition. I couldn't tell you where 70% of my physical books were bought. I could care less whether my e-books come from Project Gutenberg or Amazon or, for that matter, B&N. The situation for users of other e-book devices (Sony, Kobe, Nook) may be very different and, for them, the Calibre Companion might make perfect sense. So, I suppose I would modify my "warning" to say that users who buy all their e-books from Amazon to be read on Amazon devices and want them stored in Amazon's Cloud and managed by Amazon services probably will not want to use Calibre Companion. |
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05-29-2015, 02:06 AM | #19 | |
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There are other tools ( google will find them) that claim to improve on amazon's native management of shelves, collections etc but work only for amazon books. If you are 100% amazon you may wish to look into those |
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05-29-2015, 05:39 AM | #20 | |
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I understand that it is not for you.
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Since there is a free demo app that folks can test drive I don't think any further clarification is required. |
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