Calibre 6.0

by sprague • 4 years ago

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m463• 4 years ago

I like calibre. You can convert your amazon books to .epub or .pdf

I dislike calibre. It likes to put your books in a library in the way it likes, not the way you like - always Author Name/Book Title (id)/foo.*

really nice, but also really annoying.

jay_kyburz• 4 years ago

Yeah, I don't use it to manage my library, I drag a book in, convert it and move it to the kindle, then delete the book. My library is too big for Calibre.

tastysandwich• 4 years ago

Originally I'd convert, click "Send To Device", and then manually move it.

Then I gave up and let it have its way. At the end of the day it all appears the same way when I use my Kobo. Plus I like to try to keep only around 20 unread books on my device, otherwise I get paralysed with indecision when I have to choose my next read.

jorgesborges• 4 years ago

Recent email from Amazon:

We wanted to let you know that starting August 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi, .azw) files to your Kindle library.
Compatible formats now include EPUB (.epub), which you can send to your library using your Send to Kindle email address.

The future is here! I’ve been using Calibre since my Kindle DX days. It’s sophisticated and feature-rich yet literally the only thing I use it for is converting to .mobi and emailing. I might not have to do that soon.

nicolas_t• 4 years ago

I've had very mixed results with sending EPUBs to my kindle. Quite a few epubs that work fine on my kobo don't work on the kindle so, for now, I've continued using MOBI.

BaseballPhysics• 4 years ago

Certainly a matter of preference. For me, Calibre organizes books exactly the way I would if I was doing it by hand, so I love that it does this. But obviously it's all a matter of preference and how you use the tool.

If you use Calibre purely for conversion and delivery to your device and manage your library separately, you can always use the ebook-convert and ebook-device command-line tools, which are pretty easy use.

antisthenes• 4 years ago

Sort of dupe of this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32052669

yewenjie• 4 years ago

I wish there was a simple server-only solution for Ebooks (like Jellyfin). I tried to setup calibre-web a few days ago but gave up since it expected an already existing calibre library.

wfriesen• 4 years ago

I'm using the linuxserver container image for calibre, then rsync'ing to my laptop to sync with my kindle. Not really server-only but has everything I want from that

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-calibre

therobot24• 4 years ago

Just updated & enabled indexing my books to try out the full text search engine.

Calibre 6.0

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