If you buy an e-book from the store and send it to multiple reading devices, chances are good that they will remember the last page read for that book between devices. This feature and the library off-line sorting and browsing make the Calibre Companion app worth the money. If it’s successful the Kindle shows up as an active device in Calibre and I can use the regular “Send to Device” commands to send books or see books on the Kindle without a wired connection. Now I can use it to “Start a wireless device connection” and press the “Connect” button in the CC app running on the Kindle Fire HD. Inside Calibre on my computer, I added the “Connect/share” choice to the main toolbar. Once I set it to “Allowed” all worked as advertised. In my firewall program I had to find Calibre.exe, which was listed as “The main Calibre program” in the “T” portion of the list, not in the “C’s” where I expected it.

Eventually, I realized my firewall was blocking Calibre from making the connection. However, it didn’t work the first time I tried to connect from Calibre on my PC. I have IP address and port set to “Automatic” and it works with my home Wi-Fi.

In the CC app go to Settings>Wireless Device Connection. You can do a wireless book transfer as follows. This is a very handy feature if you have a large library of books. The command bar at the top changes to let you “Read” or “Delete” this book from this page.Ī book “List” view with the grouping slider pane open, shows how to use tags to filter the display of books in the library. The first time you select to read a book it will ask what reader app you want and does include the native Kindle reader app as a choice. Long-press a book cover and the app opens a reader app on the Kindle Fire HD to read the book. Tap a book cover and the screen changes to show the book and metadata page. The screenshot at the left shows the main browsing window of the app running on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (1st gen), with the books sorted by author. The CC app is available in the Amazon App Store for $2.99. Also, metadata and tags can only be edited in the main Calibre program (not on your android device). The app requires that the main Calibre program be running on your computer in order to do wireless transfers or sync metadata. comprehensive book metadata synced between devices and.indexing of books by author, title, tags or other metadata,.wireless transfers of books from PC to android device,.Calibre Companion (CC) is an android app that can be used with the Calibre book library program on your PC.

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