Calibre Quick Start Guide Read Free

of interest, select it
and check the 'Schedule for download' check box on the right, or click
'Download now'. You can also set how often and when you want it to download.
Once downloaded the content will be converted to an e-book according to your
conversion preferences.
    By default when you conntect your e-book reader calibre will
automatically transfer the downloaded news to the device. If you don't want
this to happen, and would rather transfer manually go into the
'Preferences', select the interface category, and uncheck 'Automatically
send downloaded news to ebook reader'. Also, if you do want it send to the
reader automatically it's usually a good idea to check the 'Delete news from
library when automatically sent to reader' option in “Preferences”
interface.

Task 4: Interacting with e-book readers
    In my mind the reason people start reading e-books as opposed to physical
books (pBooks) is due to e-book readers. That's precisely why I started
collecting e-books. Calibre has full support for a wide variety of e-book
readers. In total, calibre currently supports over 30 e-book readers. Yep,
over 30. Everything from eInk devices like the Kindle, Sony and Nook to cell
phones.
4.1: Putting an e-book on your e-book
reader
    Connect your e-book reader to your computer, and start calibre if it's
not already running.. If your device is supported by calibre a reader icon
will appear next to the library in the white box above the search area.
Clicking the reader icon will switch the main book list from your library to
a listing of e-books on your connected device. If you want to send an e-book
to your device just switch back to your library, select the book and click
'Send to device' in the top tool bar. It really is that simple. Another
often-used feature is to select a book on the device and click the 'Remove
books' button in the top tool bar, removing the e-book from your e-book
reader.
    Once you've finished refreshing the e-book content stored on your device
hover your mouse over the reader icon for your connected device. You will
see an eject icon (upward-pointing triangle inside a circle) next to the
mouse pointer. Clicking the eject icon disconnects your e-book reader from
the computer.
4.2: E-book reader optional
configuration
    There are a number of different ways you can configure calibre to
interact with your device, but I'm only going to touch on the two most
common.
    Open up 'Preferences', go to 'Add/Save' and select the 'Sending to device'
tab. Here you can customize the save template. If you have experience with
music tagging programs where you can create custom save locations this
should look very familiar. The save template can be customized to change
where e-books are saved on your device. If you have a device like the Kindle
or Sony Reader this isn't very useful and can safely be left with the
default settings. If you have a device like the Cybook Gen 3 that supports
folders this is extremely useful. There are a number of variables
(descriptions under the template) which can be used to change where the
books are saved. Lets look at a basic example, “favorites/{title} –
{authors}”. {title} will be replaced with the title of the book, {authors}
will be replaced with its author and the book will be put into the favorites
folder. All of the replacements that can be made in the save template are
listed with descriptions under the entry area.
    Another useful configuration change is disabling and reorganizing the
supported formats. Let's use the Cybook Gen 3 (my primary reader) again as
an example. In 'Preferences', Plugins, Device Interface plugins, select the
Cybook Gen 3 Device Interface and click customize plugin. The first thing in
the configuration for the device is the format list. Here you can uncheck
formats you don't want sent to your e-book reader. You can also reorder the
formats. The format at the top of the list will be the one used for