Can i make collections in calibre

You can also add books from these and many more more sources. Calibre is a very powerful tool for organizing your e-books…if you have the room to download them all to your computer.

So I use Calibre in a limited way for specific purposes of searching for metadata on books and converting file formats but I do not use it for organizing things like regular e-books and PDFs. So back to my problem of how to organize my books so that they are searchable by a variety of criteria without downloading them all to my computer.

Do you use Calibre? If so how and what do you like or not like about it? Let me know in the comments below. Trying to remember, based on the titles alone, what order a series of books goes in can be quite frustrating.

Thanks to a very handy function in the popular ebook management application Calibre, all it takes is a few minutes of tweaking to enjoy automatically renamed and properly numbered books on your ebook reader. The most important thing is that you have the book series in Calibre.

For the purposes of this tutorial we created a set of ebook files by a fabricated author—our apologies to those readers who are dying to know what happens in The Mysterious Mid-Century Modern.

An easy way to quickly tag all the books in a series is to highlight the books, right click on the highlighted group, and select Edit metadata individually. In the Edit Metadata menu you can enter the Series name and Number at the top of the screen. Calibre has an awesome feature known as a Plugboard. The plugboard exists exclusively to allow you to, on-the-fly, edit ebook metadata during the send-to-device and save-to-disk operations.

If we were to simply transfer them to our Kindle, there would be no indication which book came first or last in the series. The first order of business is to select the format and device. Our examples are arranged with the string first and the example output second. Click Save plugboard. The plugboard will appear in the Existing plugboards box like so:. If you need to tweak the plugboard in the future, simply select it and click it and the variables for that plugboard will automatically load into the menu for editing.

Click Apply in the upper left hand corner to exit the plugboard menu and apply your work. Close the preferences screen and return to the main Calibre menu. Make sure your device is plugged into your computer and then highlight the books in the series you wish to send to your device. Dismount your device and power it up. If everything went as planned you should see the book series neatly named and organized like so:. Any time you add more devices to your stable of gizmos, you can hope back into the plugboard menu and create a new plugboard script for the device.

Calibre is undisputedly the best ebook managing tool on the planet. Calibre can do everything from displaying ebooks in its ebook viewer to converting formats into something more compatible for a specific ereader.

With it you can organize your entire ebook library any way that you choose, and sync all your content with your favorite reading devices. And Calibre can even search the internet and download metadata and book covers at the click of a button.

Additionally, you can set up Calibre to fetch RSS news feeds from around the web and automatically convert them into an ebook to be sent to your device, no subscription fee required. Once you install Calibre, the welcome wizard will guide you through the installation process. Calibre will copy all your ebooks into a hierarchical file system. Select the folder with your ebooks in it and then Calibre will import the entire folder at once, or you can just choose individual titles. You can find millions of freebies by checking out the websites listed on our free ebooks page, or you can find the latest free titles in the free ebooks category of this blog.

This brings up a list of all the currently supported news sources. Select the feed you want and then you can choose to download it once or setup a schedule to automatically download it each morning or whenever you specify. Calibre collects the articles and then converts them into ebooks that includes the full versions of the articles, along with the associated images.

Editing Metadata: This step is optional but makes sorting and organizing your ebooks a lot easier in the long run. You can enter metadata—author names, book titles, tags, book description, etc—manually yourself or you can have Calibre search for them online, along with the book covers, to automatically fill in any missing information. Calibre will automatically detect your device when you plug it in to the USB port of your computer.

If the ebook you are sending to the device is not a supported format, Calibre will convert it to the most suitable format for your reader automatically. Also, with the Calibre content server you can access your ebook collection using a web browser from any computer anywhere in the world, and you can set it up to email your ebooks and downloaded news automatically.

In the video below the creator of Calibre, Dr. Kovid Goyal, gives a tutorial on how to setup Calibre, add ebooks, edit ebook meta data, how to convert and send ebooks to a device, and how to fetch news feeds, among other helpful tips and tricks. Check this new post for an article and video with some advanced tips and tricks for using Calibre ». Then, delighting in libraries offering more than 1. At the end of the day, your e-reader now holds scores or even hundreds of e-books.

In time, that could easily grow to thousands. Calibre helps you catalog your e-book collection. Once that information is in the directory, you can use it to organize, categorize, annotate, search, rate, and save to disk. You can customize or delete any of the data fields Calibre fills in, or add your own.

Click a specific author to display all his or her books in the library. To the right of the main fields, a column displays plug-in information on the highlighted e-book or publication: cover art, a list of formats in which the e-book is available, tags either downloaded or added by the user , and the file path on your PC or e-reader where the work is stored. Scores of plugins are included, and you can add others created by by Calibre users to your plugin lists. On top of the interface are the commands that transform Calibre from a static directory to an e-book management powerhouse.

Every function you can think of for easy access and guaranteed readability is here. You can add books from many different sources, edit and organize information about the author or anything else you want associated with the work , convert various e-book formats to the one your e-reader uses, and download e-books to your PC or any other device.

As with most other Calibre components, the commands are highly customizable. And because Calibre is open source software with a dynamic community forum, add to the list of components, features, and free materials daily. The down side of Calibre is that not everything works smoothly, and there are some gaps in functionality.

And being such a powerful and versatile utility, the user is occasionally faced with a bewildering array of choices and options, without having a clear idea of what to do next, or why. Even with its quirks, Calibre belongs on every serious e-bookshelf as the best way to manage your electronic library. Are you tired of spending so much time looking for your eBooks on an ugly Amazon page?

Well, let me help you with that. You can fill them with eBooks in an impressive pace. When you do, you might find it hard to get them on your device. Kindles are very particular when it comes to file formats. It can manage all your eBooks, no matter where they came from and help you select the ones that will get on your device.

Compared with the method 2, using the desktop kindle app is easier to set up and manage kindle collections. Make sure that you have logged in Kindle for PC with your Amazon account. Click "New Collection" and name the title of the collection. And you can also move the book to collections which you have already created. Step 2 Import collections to kindle paperwhite Kindle Touch. Switch to Cloud View, open the menu and select "Import Collections".

Then select "OK" on the pop-up screen. Wait for a moment, then all the books will appear in the corresponding collections in order. The method 2 and 3 above can only be applied to newer kindle models. If you have a very older Kindle device, please refer to the method 4 and the method 5. A: It's easier for us to make and manage my collections on pc.

According to Amazon Cusomer Service, it doesn't support sending collections from computer to iPad. This program allows us to import and manage Kindle Books and collections. First Download and install Kindlian for win. Plug your kindle into the computer and run this program. Step 1 Choose your kindle version. The following steps will take kindle paperwhite as example. Once you tap kindle paperwhite and press the icon, the pop-up screen prompts you to disconnect kindle.

Then reconnect kindle to your computer. At last press "OK". Then it will enter the scan mode and then the new interface appears. Drag the books into the collection folder you create.

And you can add epub books from your computer to kindle device by clicking "Add files to Kindle" icon. Because it will automatically convert epub books to mobi. But it will load DRM epub books in failure. Once added books to your target collection, click "disconnect" icon and a window will ask you to disconnect your kindle with computer. Just for a while, the "kindle collection test'' which I just create appears in my kindle paperwhite. Wonderful, I succeed in managing my kindle books!

The Kindlian just offers a Windows version. But its good point is that it also works with non Amazon books. I will demonstrate a proper way to manage your kindle books and group books together into unique collections. Here is a full guide which tells you how to jailbreak Kindle Paperwhite step by step.

Download Kindle Collections Manager here. Plug you kindle paperwhite into your computer. Copy CollectionsManager. Disconnect your kindle paperwhite and go forward to click the Kindle collections manager to launch it. If you fail to open the CollectionsManager. If you get any problem, please leave your comment. In fact, if you just want to manage your kindle books on the Paperwhite, there is no need to follow this step 3. By installing Calibre plugin, we can manage kindle books via Calibre.

There are two plugin versions for Calibre. Locate "Kindle Collections" plugins and click "Install" button. Refer this guide about how to add plugin to calibre step by step. Download the plugin called " Kindle Collections. Browser the location of "Kindle Collections. And select it and add this zip file to calibre. Refer to this guide about how to load plugin into Calibre step by step. Download Books from Kindle Paperwhite to you calibre library. Then plug your kindle into the host computer.

At last, add all books to library by right clicking. Now you can import Kindle collections to Calibre. Once you have created the custom column successfully, navigate to Kindle Collections from the main menu and choose " Import Kindle collections to Calibre And you can rename the collection.

Once you have kept your collections in order, click "Save" button and save collections to your kindle paperwhite. Then it will prompt to restart the Kindle. Finally, it will save the new collections to Kindle paperwhite.

Compared with the method 4, the method 5 is too complicated to operate. But both methods can be applied to Amazon purchased books and non Amazon books. And if you think these methods are too difficult to follow, maybe you can have a good look at this new tool I found it interesting : Epubor eBook manager. It helps you manage kindle collection by editing, adding, creating, copying, renaming, and more.

Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter. It seems you are using method 2. Please create the New collections on Kindle paperwhite, not from the kindle for mac app. Sadly on my side my new Kindle Oasis does not show up in the dialog window for importing collection to Kindle for PC.

I do use last version 1. Is there an issue on my side? Kindlian All books should be in Documents folder, as they are by default. Or in subfolders. Farrell I have a kindle fire hd and I am wondering if it is compatible. I am using windows 7 and have. Wessely I'm dissapointed with Calibre for Kindle management! It doesn't sync collections!!! If you can't even read and understand this article, why bother with a kindle?

Of course it can't sync collections, and it's explained why exactly. Erin Unfortunately none of these work other than Kindle for Cloud of their website if you have a newer device such as updated software on Paperwhite 3, a Paperwhite 4, or Oasis 2 or 3.

I do wish Amazon would allow people to sync easier when done on the computer, etc. Yi Heather Dashner I had all my Amazon books nicely organized in Collections, and suddenly, one day, the collections disappeared, as did at least half my books from my Kindle.

Now, when I create a collection, it does include the books in it, but the very same books all still appear in my library. Any suggestions? Add comment. Name: Email:. DRM Removal software. Book Discovery Sites. Library Automation Software. Contact us Add News Add Software. Ebook Editors.