There is a new version of Calibre available (0.6.1). This version makes book conversion and library maintenance for the Kindle even better.
If you have a lot of books that were not purchased via Amazon, Calibre can make your life a lot easier. You can maintain a library of non-Amazon purchases and downloads, convert those books to Kindle format, perform mass deletions/additions to your Kindle, email items from your library to your Kindle, and update the metadata on items in your library.
You can view the Calibre update page here.
In the latest update, Calibre conversion has been revamped. Now you can convert from any: CBZ, CBR, CBC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TXT
To any
EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, TXT
You can automatically perform a conversion to a default format when sending items to your Kindle in a single step.
You have the option of adding a metadata page to the beginning of your books.
For the folks with more than model of device, Calibre recognizes the Sony Reader, Kindle, BeBook, Cybook, Ectaco Jetbook, Irex, iPhone and Android phones.
The metadata page is huge for Kindlers. Since you can edit the Comments in Calibre for each book, plus add Tags to items in bulk, this will help you organize until Amazon gets their act together. I have played with tags using Series names/order, genres, etc. and even though I would prefer folders for my Kindle (tags aren’t the best way to deal with Samples or items that I have already read), tags work pretty darn good.
There is also a startup wizard that establishes your default settings and the ebook viewer can now display all of the formats that can be converted.
Other enhancements include updates to pdfs and bug fixes
Although I use a few different hacks and tools for my Kindle, overall, I find that Calibre is the one Kindle tool that seems to bring everything together.
