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Calibre Open Source

Calibre is an open source e-book management tool that allows users to organize their e-book libraries, convert between formats, and interact with e-book readers. It was created by Kovid Goyal and maintains e-books as a searchable database while supporting conversion between formats and compatibility with many e-book readers. Calibre has a graphical user interface for typical use as well as command line utilities for advanced functions and additional tools like an e-book reader and editor accessible through the main interface.

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Calibre Open Source

Calibre is an open source e-book management tool that allows users to organize their e-book libraries, convert between formats, and interact with e-book readers. It was created by Kovid Goyal and maintains e-books as a searchable database while supporting conversion between formats and compatibility with many e-book readers. Calibre has a graphical user interface for typical use as well as command line utilities for advanced functions and additional tools like an e-book reader and editor accessible through the main interface.

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Introduction

Calibre is an open source e-book management tool. Simply put, calibre allows you to
organize your e-book library, convert e-books to various formats, and interact with your
e-book reader, all in an intuitive and friendly manner. It is compatible with Microsoft
Windows – XP, Vista, 7, and 8 – as well as Apple’s OS X (and various flavors of Linux).
It was created by Kovid Goyal, who still leads its development. A number of people
around the world, including myself, contribute to calibre’s development. Throughout this
guide and the online docs you will see ‘calibre’ instead of ‘Calibre’. That’s the convention
Kovid chose, so that’s what we use.

The purpose of calibre is to simplify management of your e-book library. It does this in
several ways:

 Calibre organizes your library as a database so you can find the book you want
when you want it. Calibre easily handles any size of library, and can manipulate
e-book metadata – title, author, rating, etc..
 Calibre converts between multiple e-book formats.
 Calibre supports a growing number of e-book readers, including Kindle, Kobo,
Nook, and many others.

Calibre is composed of three functional groups:

 The graphical user interface (GUI). This is the typical mode of interacting with
your library. All of calibre’s principal functionality is available through the GUI.
 A collection of command line (CLI) utilities for advanced calibre operations. For
example, the command line tools are used by the ManyBooks service to convert
on an as-needed basis.
 Additional GUI tools such as an e-book reader and an e-book editor. These tools
can be accessed via the main GUI or directly.

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