When you click Next in the setup wizard you’ll be asked to choose the kind of device you’re using.
By default the library is called Calibre Library and is placed within your user folder, but you can change that location if you like. When you first launch Calibre it will prompt you to do that. Tick the box to the right of File Extension and click OK.Ĭreate a library: You’ll want to start by creating a folder for your books. Two matching items will appear- File Extension and File Extension Hidden. In the sheet that appears enter extension in the Search field.
Click on the Kind pop-up menu and choose Other.
In the window that appears click on the Plus (+) button near the window’s top-right corner so that you see a row of conditions that reads, by default, Kind is Any. Move to the Finder and choose Finder > New Smart Folder (or Command-Option-N). You can do this with a couple of smart folders. mobi extension) in one folder and their iBooks-compatible files ( epub files) in another. Some people are concerned only with placing their Kindle-compatible files (with the. There are multiple ways to organize ebooks. But let’s hope for the best and run through the steps. I was completely with you until you mentioned “easy.” Separating ebook types is a cinch, locating and deleting duplicates isn’t terribly difficult, but when you talk about tidying up title and author information (which relies on the book’s metadata) you could be looking at a long and tedious process. Is there an easy way to sort these things out? I think there are duplicate titles and some of the author information is incorrect. Some, I guess, are meant for a Kindle and others can be read on my iPad. I’ve downloaded hundreds of free ebooks in a variety of formats and I need help organizing them. Reader Susan Erich seeks a bit of organization in her literature.