I've been loading my Amazon books straight from Amazon and using calibre to manage & sideload my books from other sources. I'd like to get my Amazon books into calibre to keep track of all my ebooks together and "just in case".
I only read on Amazon devices and apps, so I don't see any need to break the DRM as long as I can track them, sideload them an edit the metadata.
I guess I'm looking for the best current practices and the "gotchas" of managing DRM books in calibre.
My impressions are:
- A good DL technique is to get all my books via Kindle for Mac/PC.
- The filenames will be useless -- I'll need to deduce and input enough metadata to download more metadata. (Or does the filename have something I can search with?)
- Calibre does not store metadata within the ebook file.
- When calibre sideloads, some metadata is sent too -- still separate from the ebook file? (Or does it combine it somehow and is that a problem with DRM books?)
Should I consider a separate calibre library for Amazon sourced (DRM) books? Tags for "Amazon" or "DRM"?
What should my default format be? (I've been using mobi.)
Thanks,
tlc