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Calibre Tutorial
Using Calibre to manage your ebooks
What is Calibre?
Calibre is an app available for most standard operating systems that can manage your personal ebook library. It auto-magically manages a database of ebook files on your computer, can edit the metadata (e.g. Title, Author, tags, cover art), can convert between different file types (such as epub, azw3, mobi, and others), and can send ebooks to your Kindle or other device.
Downloads are available at:
https://calibre-ebook.com/download
This guide will be written for Windows; good luck everyone else.
Okay, so what do?
Either during installation, or on first startup, Calibre will ask you for your ebook reader make & model. If you're pretty much only planning to use Calibre to move books onto your device, you're done after the initial setup. There are a ton of options, plugins, and settings you can play with, but they really only apply if you're adding/editing books in a library.
For more in-depth information about that, see these links for more:
https://calibre-ebook.com/help https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/
Otherwise, all you really need to know is the following workflow:
1. Add book to Calibre 2. Plug your ereader into your computer 3. Use Calibre to send a book to your device 4. Use Calibre to remove a book from your device (if you want)
Adding books to your ereader
Your local library will look a little different depending on whether your ereader is plugged in.
When your device is plugged in, note the extra column (“On Device”) and the extra button up top (“Send to Device” with the blue arrow). The On Device column will have a big green check mark for any book currently on your device, and that button is a shortcut to send new books over to your reader.
To send books over, just click on them and click the Send to Device button.
To remove books, either do it on your device or right click on the book in your library:
Make sure you click “Remove matching books from device”. If you click the top option (Remove selected book), you will only delete the book from your local library. It will still be on your reader. (And I don't even know - if the book isn't in your local library, it might not even show up in Calibre anymore)