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Getting My eBook Act Together - Finally
I've been terrible about consistently using Calibre to organize my ebooks. Mostly I've used it just for liberating my Amazon books. Which is frustrating with it "works, breaks, works, breaks" over the years. I have it working again - but I'm finally moving past that.
One of the things I desire most is to have my ebubs organized into Series. The default "download metadata" doesn't do a good job. Thanks to ChatGPT, I learned there is a GoodReads plugin. So I set the metadata download to JUST update the series and to use Goodreads - and it's working nicely. I'm also using multiple libraries. I have a "clean things" library where I work on whatever set of files until I'm happy. Then I merge those books into my master library. Of course, this assumes my computer remains stable. I hope it will. I don't plan on upgrading it for years. |
02-07-2024, 04:23 AM | #2 |
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I hear you. I'm a troglodyte when it comes to using calibre as well. I use it as well to liberate amazon books and it's horribly disorganized. But it works so I leave it along. I have a version and DeDRM plugin that works and whenever it asks me to update I pass. Better the devil you know...
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02-07-2024, 07:40 AM | #5 |
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There was a time when the Calibre update (from 4.x to 5) broke the deDRM. And of course all the Amazon shenanigans - older Kindle apps forcibly updating, no longer downloading new books and so on. Download & Transfer has worked all along, but that's only available to eink Kindle owners.
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Plus you have to remember to log the older kindle's serial number into the plugin settings, a step I had forgotten. And then when "Download to USB", you have to remember which of your many kindle devices is the right one |
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There is a check box "[ ] attempt to use newer firmware". That will work with a newer unknown Kobo if the database aspects used are unchanged.
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