Now you know how to synchronize and that the two directions at work

Now you know how to synchronize and that the two directions at work, you can add yourself to go e-books on Calibre. There are multiple sources of e-books: virtually every e-reader has to buy its own shop where you book. These books come first on the e-reader and must be transferred to the library on your PC or Mac. You can also buy books in Calibre.

With the button their books you can shop at different stores, Calibre itself stands beyond. Have e-books on your PC or Mac, you can add them to the library. To do this, click on Add Books . Then browse for the folder where e-books are stored, select it and click Open . You can add one book, but also whole series at once. Are the e-books together in a folder, open the folder, select all the books via Ctrl + A , and then click Open to add them to Calibre.

E-books allow themselves to easily add to the library of Calibre.
Calibre and DRM
To prevent piracy, some commercial publishers provide their e-books Digital Rights Management (DRM). A purchased e-book is not free to use. You can put yourself on one or more devices, and lend it to friends already out of the question. Calibre can not handle DRM protected e-books. For this you need the Adobe Digital Editions program that through the Adobe free Web site to download . The tricky to DRM is that it punishes the paying user that he can not freely use their purchase and making a backup is often impossible. Want your boss about your purchased e-books, you can remove the DRM. Explain how to do this, however (like removing DRM itself) banned in the Netherlands. Well here is a lot of information on the Internet.

metadata
Each book has characteristics that do not belong to the story in the book. Consider the cover, the name of the author, the year the book was published. But also think of personal characteristics, such as whether you can find a good book, or that it is part of a series. This information is called metadata and is e-books very important. Indeed, it is the basis of good e-book management. Select an e-book and click Edit Metadata . You will see all the metadata about the book. You may correct and complete. Also important are the fields Sort Title and Author Sorting . Need example, "Herman Hermits' or 'Hermits Herman' as name? It seems trivial, but in the alphabetical sorting become quite important. For some common actions are present in Calibre buttons as for the exchange of title and author, and taking over the title as sort title. Missing a lot of data, then you can via download Metadata extract the data from the Internet. The same applies to download Folder . Click OK when all the data is desired.

Metadata is the key to good e-book management.
Tips for metadata
Metadata helps you stay organized in the digital bookshelf. Important for metadata is that you are consistent and do not vary too much. Always use the same notation for the name of the author and title. Use labels (that has its own characteristics that you can give to a book), limit the number of labels and write this always the same way. A label 'security' give all book about computer security is fine, but use it only that term and not too 'security'. Calibre helps, when you're in the field, adding labels Labels , then Calibre shows labels previously used. Never add books to the library without checking the metadata, supplement and correct.

Use the autocomplete Calibre to reuse previously used tags.
converting books
There are more than thirty formats for e-books. The best known are epub, azw, mobi and PDF. You will receive an e-book into a format that the e-reader does not support, you can convert it with Calibre. First add the book to the Library. Select the book (or several books) and then click Convert Books . In the upper right to select Export file format in which the e-book to be converted into. Change any other attributes. In the left margin of the window you can select and customize many things. For example, select your mobi as output format, you also get additional options for that export to MOBI output . If the settings are right, then click OK . The only condition to convert with Calibre e-books is that they are DRM-free.

Calibre provides extensive options to convert e-books.
search
Are e-books with the correct metadata, you can use this information to sort books and searching. The first method is to click above the columns of the titles, so on Title , Author (s) , Date , Rating , and Label . The entire library is then sorted by that attribute. But you can also search for keywords, sharing the title of each attribute of an e-book using the search bar above the library.

Formulate a search and click Search! And if you want more advanced search, click on the icon of the telescope to the left of the search bar. This will open the window, Advanced Search and you can use multiple attributes together. Click OK to start a search. When to use search type you can also choose the type of search, there is a choice of three. Contains is to say that the search term may appear anywhere in the metadata-field. At Equals the search should be exactly equal to the entire metadata item. And Regular expression for the search can be found everywhere and you can use the very specific RegEx syntax.