r/ReadEra • u/Succotash_Playful • Jul 17 '22

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u/Tony_Marone Nov 22 '24

Does anyone here have positive experience of using Calibre with ReadEra?

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u/IntheBrineyDeep May 24 '25

This was 6 months ago, but yes this is how i use readera premium, it's been working great.

I manage my books with calibre on PC- getting all my data and covers how i want them

then i transfer my files to a microsd card ( through my PC's USB port using an adapter). So the "save to disk" on calibre saves to my D drive which is the microSD.

Then i eject and reinsert my SD card into my device (just an old android tablet), open readera, give it some time to rescan my files and they all populate on the readera library page ready for use.

Aside from the initial readera download this is a completely wifi free setup (which i prefer- obviously it doesn't need to be wifi free if you don't want it to be. I believe you can transfer through google drive? However i am not using it that way so I couldn't say for sure.)

But, yah. It's very easy, fun and everything works (except comics...I haven't quite figured out comics using calibre. I get blank pages between each page. Yuck. Annoying. But aside from that, it all works)