
Customize PluginĪfter Calibre is restarted, go to Preferences -> Plugins. You must have your Kindle connected to your computer to operate the plugin. Once you have installed the plugin, you will need to restart Calibre. Hook up the Kindle to the computer, open Calibre, and install the plugin according to instructions here. Gather your Kindle, a kindle cord, download Calibre, and the plugin. The more books you have on your device, the slower your device works particularly when loading the menu and the collections. This post walks you through the install of the plugin and the basic usage of the plugin. If you are a Calibre user, and if you aren’t, you should look into it, a programmer named meme at MobileReads created a Kindle Collections plugin which you can download here. Synching capabilities often result in multiple versions of the same collections when you are editing on the device itself.Thus a book in a collection on your PC will not show up in the collection on your Kindle device unless the book is downloaded onto the Kindle device. The collections are imported onto the device, but not the books in the collections.To reduce the bugginess, I have downloaded my entire Kindle library and when I open the Kindle 4 Mac program, I wait until the entire library is loaded before I try to do anything with the Kindle 4 Mac program.

The Computer Apps are buggy and take time to load.

This screenshot, for example, shows only the standard sorting features.Ībout a month ago, Kindle did release updated features on its computer apps which allows you to create collections on your laptop or desktop using the computer app and then importing those collections onto the device. I admit to not being encouraged by Kindle Fire screenshots that user organization will be improved with the new devices. Organizing your books on the Kindle device is one of the greatest struggles (and one of the greatest flaws) of the Kindle devices. Jane Ebooks Calibre / Kindle 25 Comments Introduction OctoUsing Kindle Collections Plugin for Calibre
