PUTTING LIBRARY BOOKS ON KINDLE HOW TO
PUTTING LIBRARY BOOKS ON KINDLE SERIES

PUTTING LIBRARY BOOKS ON KINDLE SERIES

Now any books on your Kindle that are tagged as belonging to a series in Calibre will get their own discrete collection. Wouldn’t it be nice if you program Calibre to automatically create a distinct collection just for that series? In the “Customize collections to create from Calibre” menu we just looked at, you can select “Series” as the source, set the minimum to “2” (so it won’t create collections for books in which you only have one book out of the series), and save it. Here are three great examples of how you can leverage Calibre’s metadata to create awesome and time saving collections:Ĭreating Series-Based Collections: Let’s say you read a bunch of serialized books where there may be anywhere from two to a few dozen books in the series. The power of this feature can’t be emphasized enough. In addition to using the “My Collections” column as a semi-manual collection creator (in that you manually choose to enter a tag into that column or not), you can also automate the creation of collections based on existing Calibre metadata.

PUTTING LIBRARY BOOKS ON KINDLE HOW TO

RELATED: How To Organize Your Ebook Collection with Calibre Now any information you put in the “My Collections” column for a book that is either already on the Kindle or that your intend to transfer to the Kindle will be converted into a collection tag. By doing this, you may securely remove your Kindle without harming the storage drive. When all the books have been transferred to your device, right-click the Kindle Drive icon on your computer and choose Eject. Afterward, locate the books folder and transfer all of your books to it. This method is only available for the Kindle Touch and Kindle Paperwhite, as it uses improvements in the Kindle OS that are not present in the OS versions of earlier model Kindles. Open Internal Storage on the Kindle Fire first. If you would like to read e-books from the library on your Kindle, please email and request that Amazon allow compatibility with. To get your Kindle's email address, go to /myk using your PC's web browser (or Account > Your devices and. If you wish to manage all your content using only your Kindle (but with a much superior Collections manager than the one Amazon offers) this is the section for you. The easiest way to put books on your Kindle is to do it via email.

The first method is a strictly Kindle-only technique that installs an alternative Collections manager on the Kindle and is called, appropriately enough, Kindle Collections Manager. There are two methods we’re going to highlight in this tutorial, both of which use tools to manipulate and edit the tiny collections data file stored on the Kindle. RELATED: How To Access Your eBook Collection Anywhere in the World How Exactly Does This Work? In addition to the above things, you’ll need a few small (and free) files for your Kindle which we’ll link to at appropriate times in the tutorial.

A Host Computer (for transferring files).

A Jailbroken Kindle or Kindle Keyboard (for Calibre-only Collections management).

A Jailbroken Kindle Touch or Paperwhite (for updated on-Kindle Collections management + Calibre support).In order to unlock the inner workings of the Collections system on your Kindle, you’ll need the following things:

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