The eBook must already be in Microsoft Word. Remember, e-mailed books show up in the Docs library, not the Books library, on your Kindle Fire. This feature works for Mac users as well as PC and Linux users. At this time, this is the only way for Mac users to transfer books from Calibre to the Kindle Fire.
Right-click the book that you want to e-mail to your Kindle e-mail address. Enter your Kindle e-mail address. Click Use Gmail and enter your Gmail information if you want to use a Gmail account to send the e-mail. Click Use Hotmail and enter your Hotmail information if you want to use a Hotmail account to send the e-mail.
This option automatically fills in the server information. Select E-mail for the address you set up in steps 6—8.
The e-mail address that you configure in Calibre needs to be an e-mail that is on your approved e-mail list for sending docs to your Kindle Fire.
If you enjoy organizing your books in Calibre, you can get more out of this versatile app. In Calibre Preferences, you can get plug-ins to add new features.
Table of Contents for. Search in book Playlists Add To. Create new playlist Name your new playlist. Playlist description optional. Sign In. Email address.
Forgot Password? Continue with Facebook. Continue with Google. Sign Up Full Name. Confirm Email Address. Prev Previous Chapter 4. Reading on the Kindle Fire. Next Next Chapter 6. The metadata should already be there in the file.
Just make sure the file doesn't have the PDOC tag, and copy the files over. You don't even need to use Calibre for that part. Just plug the Fire in, and copy items to the same folder your other books are in. It's easiest if you have the USB for the fire. I have another kindle so I had the USB ready to go. One thing that was giving me trouble, I hadn't updated Calibre in a while, and the newer version has the drivers for the KF.
Once I updated and plugged in my kindle, it shows up on the calibre toolbar and I could just select to send to device. As of version 4. So in order to see the covers on your Kindle, you have to:. Note that this workaround only works for books sent with calibre 4. I encourage you to contact Amazon customer support and complain loudly about this bug.
Maybe Amazon will listen. If the workaround is not working for you make sure you Kindle firmware is at least version 5. Books sent to the Kindle only show up on the Kindle after they have been indexed by the Kindle. This can take some time. If the book still does not show up after some time, then it is likely that the Kindle indexer crashed. Sometimes a particular book can cause the indexer to crash.
Unfortunately, Amazon has not provided any way to deduce which book is causing a crash on the Kindle. Your only recourse is to either reset the Kindle, or delete all files from its memory using Windows Explorer or whatever file manager you use and then send the books to it again, one by one, until you discover the problem book.
This will most likely take care of the problem. Where are the book files stored? How does calibre manage author names and sorting?
How do I move my calibre data from one computer to another? The list of books in calibre is blank! When you first run calibre, it will ask you for a folder in which to store your books.
Whenever you add a book to calibre, it will copy the book into that folder. Books in the folder are nicely arranged into sub-folders by Author and Title. If you want to add a file associated to a particular book, use the top right area of Edit metadata dialog to do so.
Metadata about the books is stored in the file metadata. This file is a sqlite database. When backing up your library make sure you copy the entire folder and all its sub-folders. The library folder and all its contents make up what is called a calibre library.
You can have multiple such libraries. To manage the libraries, click the calibre icon on the toolbar. You can copy or move books between different libraries once you have more than one library setup by right clicking on a book and selecting the Copy to library action.
Author names are complex, especially across cultures, see this note for some of the complexities. The first thing to understand is that books and authors are separate entities in calibre. A book can have more than one author, and an author can have more than one book. You can manage the authors of a book by the edit metadata dialog.
You can manage individual authors by right clicking on the author in the Tag browser on the left of the main calibre window and selecting Manage authors. Using this dialog you can change the name of an author and also how that name is sorted.
This will automatically change the name of the author in all the books of that author. When a new author is added to calibre this happens whenever a book by a new author is added , calibre automatically computes a sort string for both the book and the author. Authors in the Tag browser are sorted by the sort value for the authors. Remember that this is different from the Author sort field for a book.
By default, this sort algorithm assumes that the author name is in First name Last name format and generates a Last name, First name sort value. You can force calibre to recalculate the author sort values for every author by right clicking on any author and selecting Manage authors , then pushing the Recalculate all author sort values button. You can force calibre to recalculate the author sort values for all books by using the bulk metadata edit dialog select all books and click edit metadata, check the Automatically set author sort checkbox, then press OK.
When recalculating the author sort values for books, calibre uses the author sort values for each individual author. This is useful when dealing with names that calibre will not get right, such as complex multi-part names like Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra or when dealing with Asian names like Sun Tzu.
With all this flexibility, it is possible to have calibre manage your author names however you like. For example, one common request is to have calibre display author names LN, FN.
To do this, and if the note below does not apply to you, then:. After you have changed all the authors, press the Recalculate all author sort values button. Press OK, at which point calibre will change the authors in all your books.
This can take a while. Open the Manage authors dialog. Press the copy all author sort values to author button. Check through the authors to be sure you are happy. You can still press Cancel to abandon the changes. Once you press OK, there is no undo. Suppose your book collection is nicely sorted into folders with the following scheme:. Now this makes it very easy to find for example all science fiction books by Isaac Asimov in the Foundation series.
But suppose you want to find all unread science fiction books. In calibre, you would instead use tags to mark genre and read status and then just use a simple search query like tag:scifi and not tag:read.
To those of you that claim that you need access to the filesystem, so that you can have access to your books over the network, calibre has an excellent Content server that gives you access to your calibre library over the net.
If you are worried that someday calibre will cease to be developed, leaving all your books marooned in its folder structure, explore the powerful Save to disk feature in calibre that lets you export all your files into a folder structure of arbitrary complexity based on their metadata. Finally, the reason there are numbers at the end of every title folder, is for robustness.
That number is the id number of the book record in the calibre database. The presence of the number allows you to have multiple records with the same title and author names. It is also part of what allows calibre to magically regenerate the database with all metadata if the database file gets corrupted. Look elsewhere for your book cataloguing needs.
Kindly do not contact us in an attempt to get us to change this. In addition, you can add any columns you like. Watch the tutorial UI Power tips to learn how to create your own columns, or read this blog post. In the add column dialog use the Quick create links to easily create columns to show the book ISBN or formats.
You can use the powerful calibre template language to do much more with columns. For more details, see The calibre template language. You can export all calibre data books, settings and plugins and then import it on another computer. Note that if there is currently a device connected, this menu option will not be available — so, disconnect any connected devices.
Then click the button labelled Export all your calibre data. You will see a list of all your calibre libraries. Click OK and choose an empty folder somewhere on your computer. The exported data will be saved in this folder. Simply copy this folder to your new computer and follow the instructions below to import the data. Install calibre on your new computer and run through the Welcome wizard , it does not matter what you do there, as you will be importing your old settings in the next step.
You will now have an empty calibre, with just the Getting Started guide in your library. Then click the button labelled Import previously exported data. Select the folder with the exported data that you copied over earlier. You will now have a list of libraries you can import. Go through the list one by one, and select the new location for each library a location is just an empty folder somewhere on your computer. Click OK. After the import completes, calibre will restart, with all your old libraries, settings and calibre plugins.
Simply copy the calibre library folder from the old to the new computer. You can find out what the library folder is by clicking the calibre icon in the toolbar. Now on the new computer, start calibre for the first time. It will run the Welcome wizard asking you for the location of the calibre library.
Point it to the previously copied folder. In that case, right-click the calibre icon in the toolbar and point it to the newly copied folder. You will now have two calibre libraries on your computer and you can switch between them by clicking the calibre icon on the toolbar. Transferring your library in this manner preserver all your metadata, tags, custom columns, etc.
In order to understand why that happened, you have to understand what a calibre library is. At the most basic level, a calibre library is just a folder. Inside the calibre library folder, at the top level, you will see a file called metadata. The list of books that calibre displays is created by reading the contents of this metadata.
Your calibre library folder changed its location. This can happen if it was on an external disk and the drive letter for that disk changed. Or if you accidentally moved the folder. In this case, calibre cannot find its library and so starts up with an empty library instead.
Click the little blue icon to select the new location of your calibre library and click OK. Your metadata.
In this case, you can ask calibre to rebuild the metadata. A filesystem is a complex beast. Alternatively, you can always save the eBook to your hard drive, and email it to yourself the traditional way. Download the file and it will appear like in the screenshot below.
Now that you're all set and your eBooks have been imported to your Kindle Fire, head over to the Books section. If your book does not appear for any reason, make sure that you uploaded it to the right folder and that you waited for the entire book to load onto your Kindle. For me, this is a great way to import free books found online. Need some help finding some freebies of your own? Get a lifetime subscription to VPN Unlimited for all your devices with a one-time purchase from the new Gadget Hacks Shop , and watch Hulu or Netflix without regional restrictions, increase security when browsing on public networks, and more.
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