09-21-2016, 12:23 PM | #211 |
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Import Kindle Collections into Calibre and .kfx files
Hallo, I have a Kindle PW2 (FW 5.8.2) jailbreaked with Librarian Sync (LS) v1.10 installed. I installed the version with .kfx files support.
On PW2 device there are many ebooks in .kfx format that I imported in Calibre in azw3 format (downloaded from Amazon cloud). After this I used the Calibre "Match to book library" function to link together the .kfx version with the azw3 version. I noted that all collections with ebooks in .kfx format are correctly exported by LS but when I try to import them into Calibre (using Kindle Collections plugin) every ebooks in .kfx format remains without collection! Does Kindle Collections plugin support collections with .kfx ebooks? I tried to run Calibre in debug mode and I noted that the .kfx is considered an "invalid extensions"... Thanks in advance Stefano |
09-21-2016, 01:40 PM | #212 |
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Does this plugin work on the Kindle Fire HD? If not does manual collections menu option work? I tried autodetect but it jumps to unknown.
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10-21-2016, 07:27 PM | #213 |
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No it doesn't work with the fire. Its an old app and apparently the designer never decided to update it for the newer versions. I was disappointed too because I thought I had finally stumbled across a way to get my kindle sorted easy especially since my tags are all sorted how I want them in Calibre. Hopefully someone will pick this idea up and get it working for newer versions.
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11-06-2016, 09:41 PM | #214 | |
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In the end, I did get this Collection Manager to work, but it was glitchy. Between the Collection Manager and Librarian Sync, my library is finally organized. I'm not sure if I'll get another Kindle after the Voyage. Apparently, easy to use, innate collection organization is not a priority for Amazon. There are some days, I miss my old Sony reader. |
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11-21-2016, 11:02 AM | #215 |
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Change of behaviour
Up to recent time, my Kindle when I selected sorting By Collections had a very useful (to me) behaviour: the most recently read books would appear in first places on the Home page book list, just below the list of Collections.
I dont know what I may have done wrong, or even whether this is really a matter for the Collections GUI plugin, but this no longer happens. Is there a way to make it return ? Kindle 3kb jailbroken, with the Custom Screens Savers addon, Calibre 2.72. |
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11-21-2016, 01:01 PM | #216 |
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Nothing to do with the plugin, and on the pre-PW devices the only thing I can think of is that there are no books which aren't in a collection...
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11-21-2016, 01:19 PM | #217 |
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01-29-2017, 09:54 PM | #218 |
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So I'm now getting a plugin update notification when I open Calibre. It tells me that the Create Kindle Collections plugin has depreciated. I can install the new Kindle Collections plugin but still have the plugin notice for the original. I can't uninstall the old plugin without removing the new one. Is there a way to remove it from my plugin list?
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01-29-2017, 10:14 PM | #219 | |
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02-13-2017, 07:55 AM | #220 |
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Using Kindle Collections Manager with JB Kindle Touch
Hi there,
I recently got Collections Manager loaded onto my Kindle Touch and I'm loving it so far. I used Calibre to do the big sorting and started to organise further on my kindle, but I've run into a snag. I had calibre sort my books by series, author and genre (using tags) but the books from the series and author sorts were also sorted by genre so now some books are in 2 or more collections when I only want them in one. I've been trying to figure out how to get calibre to exclude them but everything I've tried so far has failed. Short of deleting my tags for everything with a series (which doesn't work for Author), does anyone know of a solution? I have over 2000 books so doing it manually on the kindle isn't really a viable option, Plus I have a few authors with over 50 works which is why I want them in collected by author first and then I plan to use the hierarchy structure of CM to put those under the genre. This way I'll be able to find things more easily, and my collections won't be so cluttered. I've attached a screen shot of how I set it up in Calibre. Any tips or suggestions would be great. Thank you! Update: Okay so I've managed to create a work around for the series by basically removing all tags, so now the books won't also be individually in genre collections, but I still can't figure out how to get around the author problem. I just spent 2 hours manually editing and removing things from the collections I didn't want them in but when I hit save I got a message saying there was no new data and when I sent it to my kindle and then opened up CM and imported, it did absolutely nothing. I'm completely baffled and frustrated. When I do a report, it's showing what I want and what I did manually, but that's not what I'm seeing on my kindle. (For example, Contemporary, as you can see in the screen shot is supposed to have on 68 items, but on the kindle it has 73). And yes, this is after I did "Import Collections from Calibre". Last edited by lorelaisquared; 02-13-2017 at 01:58 PM. Reason: Update |
02-20-2017, 12:00 PM | #221 |
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Forgetting config
I have this setup to use the series column, but about every 2nd time or so, it forgets the settings and I have to reset it.
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03-05-2017, 05:59 PM | #222 | |
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For instance, I have my Title and Series fields filled in as normal in Calibre. Then, when a standalone book is sent to my Kindle it uses the Title as normal but any books that are a part of a series have their titles automatically changed to look like this: Code:
Series Name [1] - Book Title If I'm understanding your problem correctly, if you did this then it might keep you from needing to nest collections and thereby fix the issues you're having. To accomplish this:
Note that you can use custom fields in Plugboards as well, so the things you can do with them are really only limited by your imagination. A ton of great information about all of this can be found in the Calibre online manual, and if you have any questions just let me know! |
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04-05-2017, 08:17 AM | #223 |
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My wife has a pretty old Kindle, Kindle Keyboard 3G. Will this plugin work? Thank.
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04-05-2017, 09:23 AM | #224 | |
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04-17-2017, 07:27 AM | #225 |
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If you are pulling books from overdrive, you can pull the covers from there too.
Go to the overdrive page for the book in your web browser, right click on the image, (e)dit the book metadata in calibre, right click on the cover and paste... I've noticed that sometimes the book has a good cover internally, sometimes the one in overdrive is better. I don't know if the kindle driver supports sending covers from calibre, but the kobo driver does. |
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