{"id":111,"date":"2009-08-30T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T20:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-08-30T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T20:51:59","slug":"e-book-management-kindle-calibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/08\/e-book-management-kindle-calibre\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Book Management, Kindle & Calibre"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been enjoying my Kindle 2 for 6 months now, and have started to accumulate quite a number of e-books that will work on the Kindle.\u00a0 (There are a lot of free ones available, especially if you like to read classic science fiction!)<\/p>\n

I can tell that I’m going to want to use some kind of library management on the PC, as a simple directory structure isn’t going to suffice for me.\u00a0 So I’m taking a look at Calibre (http:\/\/calibre.kovidgoyal.net\/<\/a>) for the job.<\/p>\n

On first glance, it looks like it will fill me needs pretty well.\u00a0 There are some features that aren’t working for me.\u00a0 But I already have workarounds for those that are important to me.\u00a0 I’ll open defect reports with the developer if I can’t figure out what’s happening, but they aren’t showstopper issues for me.<\/p>\n

One interesting thing I’ve noticed as a result of poking around is that the “common wisdom” that the Kindle doesn’t support folders is untrue.\u00a0 You can load data to the Kindle 2 in a hierarchical data structure, for example {author}\/{title}\/{title}.prc, and the Kindle will find the file and display it without any problem.\u00a0 What is<\/strong> true, is that the Kindle’s UI doesn’t support that kind of structure, and will hide it from you.\u00a0 All you see on the “Home” view of your library is a list of documents without the hierarchy.\u00a0 I can hope there will be a kindle upgrade sometime that solves that deficiency.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, using the Calibre ebook library manager, I think the Kindle’s UI issues won’t be nearly as important, as I’m likely to add and remove things from the Kindle more often.\u00a0 I expect to keep notes in the library manager about what I have and haven’t read.<\/p>\n

We’ll see how it goes for a few weeks, and decide if I’m going to keep Calibre permanently or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been enjoying my Kindle 2 for 6 months now, and have started to accumulate quite a number of e-books that will work on the Kindle.\u00a0 (There are a lot of free ones available, especially if you like to read classic science fiction!) I can tell that I’m going to want to use some kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}