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General Calibre Questions
Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and new to e readers and have a few basic questions.
I have various e-books named in various ways and I various folders. I wondered before I fire up Calibre if I could just get a few pointers, Q1 I understand that Calibre has it's own naming structure.. Will this mean that Calibre will rename and move all my books into a set folder structure within the source folder? Q2 Owning a new KOBO Clara Colour, what plugins should I be considering adding to my Calibre install? Q3 Any tips starting out? |
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Adding books to calibre's library does not move the books so your original copies are left in their directories. An exception is Auto-add which does delete the originals after adding library copies. Quote:
https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools...lease/releases. For your Kobo, I would recommend adding NickelMenu: An integrated launcher for Kobo eReaders. Start using calibre and reading on your Kobo. From that experience you can decide what addons/plugins/patches you want to use. Last edited by DNSB; 06-30-2024 at 03:26 PM. |
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Calibre will create a copy of all your books in it's own location; the calibre library. Your original content will remain wherever it was. Don't make the common mistake of playing around with the files ) folders in the calibre location; accept it for what it is; a database totally managed / controlled by calibre.
Plugins come down to personal preferences. The only one I'd really recommend is the Kobo Utilities, namely because it provides an easy means to backup the database that the Kobo maintains of all content on the device. Beyond that you enter one of the religious discussion points. Some people feel that they will only read epubs if they have been converted into the kepub format; others are very happy with the Epub format. The difference is the reading engine on the Kobo. Epubs use an older version of the Adobe RMSDK library, while kepubs use an engine whose name I forget but used to be called Access. If you want kepub then you also require to install the Kobo Touch Extended plugin which will do the conversion on the fly as content is sent to the Kobo. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk |
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The plugin's that I consider a must have with a Kobo:
ACSM--formerly known as DeACSM--use in place of ADE. DeDRM --See DNSB post. Kobo Utilities I recommend using epub unless the ebook you are reading has epub3 features you like then convert to kepub. I use the Kepub Output plugin. bernie Quote:
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Quality Check Plugin
This is a Swiss Army knife to help spotting and cleaning metadata of variations (AND SO MUCH MORE) ![]() |
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Smart eject plugins, top-level device eject button.
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Jon; he's just posting another plugin that he considers useful.
Why on earth do you feel the need to be so obtuse all the time! Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk |
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Did anyone notice any of the other posts after the OP's original post that were formatted as questions?
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