#Calibre for mac os software#
If you’re using Sony’s software to get books from them look in Documents/My Books/Reader. Adobe Digital Editions files are found by default in Documents/My Digital Editions, Kindle files are found by default in Documents/My Kindle Content. This will bring up a browse for folder window so you can point the program to the right place.
#Calibre for mac os plus#
The first thing to do is click on the plus symbol in the folders column. Step 4: Tell Belvedere where to look (repeat as necessary) Note: I changed nothing from the defaults in the Preferences tab of the program. This will open a window where you can set up the folders you wish Belvedere to monitor for new books so that they can be copied to your Calibre add folder. Once you’ve downloaded and installed Belvedere right click on the little Belvedere icon in the task bar (down near the clock) and select Manage. Now right click on the Belvedere icon in your task bar (near the clock) and select Exit, then relaunch the program for the changes to be in effect.
You should only need to do this in Vista or Windows 7, not in XP. Any easy way to make sure it always runs that way is to right click on the shortcut in your Start Menu (on on the desktop if you had the installer add one) and under the compatibility tab check the “Run this program as an administrator” box and click OK. Mine is called “Calibre_Add”, but you can call it whatever you want.īelvedere must run as administrator in order for you to modify any instructions once they’ve been created (you can create and enable them at the time of creation without admin priviledges, just not edit or delete). Step 1: Create folder for Calibre additionsīefore we start setting up Belevedere we want to make a new folder where Calibre will look for books to add to its library. Belvedere is an automated file manager that can do all kinds of things, but we’re only going to look at it from the specific task adding our purchases to Calibre automatically. There is a neat little program called Belvedere from Lifehacker which is kind of a knock off of the Hazel program Jane mentioned for Mac’s. This is a follow on to Jane’s post on automating the adding of books to Calibre in Mac OS, but this time for Windows users. JUsing Belvedere to auto add purchases to Calibre
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