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Calibre just provides a little management on top. I use it for doing things like cleaning up metadata (making sure all books in a series have the same series name, for example), and transferring books over wifi (calibre can spin up a mini web server that I can access on the kobo).
I could get by without it, but it's nice sometimes.
that makes sense, I might try it sometime soon.
A lot of the books I acquire 100% legally have messed up cover metadata
It also does some niceties around fonts when you do a conversion. Some ebook readers dont come with specific fonts so they just use the inbuilt one(s).
Wait, you can use calibre over wifi? I've been using it for years and never realized...
If you have KOReader installed on your e-reader then you can select books in Calibre and wirelessly send them to your device in one click
One of the options under the connect/share button is "Start content server". Then you can access that page in a browser on the ebook.