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- <h2 class="ch-lvl" id="task4">Task 4: Interacting with e-book readers</h2>
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- <p class="calibre2">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.</p>
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- <h3 class="ch-lvl1" id="task4.1">4.1: Putting an e-book on your e-book
- reader</h3>
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- <p class="calibre2">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.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">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.</p>
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- <h3 class="ch-lvl1" id="task4.2">4.2: E-book reader optional
- configuration</h3>
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- <p class="calibre2">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.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">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, ΓÇ£favorites/{title} ΓÇô
- {authors}ΓÇ¥. {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.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">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
- automatic conversion when sending an e-book in an unsupported (or unchecked)
- format to the device.</p>
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