• ProfessorScience@lemmy.world
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    Calibre just provides a little management on top. I use it for doing things like cleaning up metadata (making sure all books in a series have the same series name, for example), and transferring books over wifi (calibre can spin up a mini web server that I can access on the kobo).

    I could get by without it, but it’s nice sometimes.

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      that makes sense, I might try it sometime soon.

      A lot of the books I acquire 100% legally have messed up cover metadata

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      It also does some niceties around fonts when you do a conversion. Some ebook readers dont come with specific fonts so they just use the inbuilt one(s).

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      Wait, you can use calibre over wifi? I’ve been using it for years and never realized…

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        If you have KOReader installed on your e-reader then you can select books in Calibre and wirelessly send them to your device in one click

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        One of the options under the connect/share button is “Start content server”. Then you can access that page in a browser on the ebook.