Manage your e-books iTunes style
If you own an ebook (electronic book) reader, or just feel like reading ebooks on your desktop or netbook, Calibre will help keep them organized.
Calibre is a library for eBooks. It has a big, bold interface that's really easy to use, and ebook files of most formats can just be dragged into the Calibre window. Editing the metadata (title, genre etc) is just a case of hitting the button on the tool bar, and typing in your changes. You can select multiple books and edit them in bulk too, for example if you want to regroup some books in a particular genre.
Viewing is also just a button click, and opens an ebook reader window. Here you can increase or decrease the font size to your comfort, add bookmarks and more. You can also set Calibre to download feed from news websites, although the layout results are sometimes a bit odd. There is also, of course, ebook reader synchronizing, so you can easily keep your device up to date.
Free, open-source and easy to use, Calibre is a great e-book library tool and reader.
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User reviews about Calibre
by Anonymous
One of the best reasons for the internet.
MoreI was having a lot of trouble organizing my ebook files and getting them formatted correctly for my Kindle when a buddy told me to download Calibre and let it do all the heavy lifting. It was some of the best tech advice I've ever gotten. Calibre is one of the most useful applications I've ever used. It's a staggeringly powerful and elegant program for organizing, sorting, converting, editing, and viewing ebook files of every kind. It clearly represents a labor of love by virtue of its meticulous design and useability. The interface is as intuitive and elegant as any I've ever seen. It's difficult to adequately express my admiration for the hard work and attention to detail that Kovid Goyal has invested in Calibre. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
Pros:
The intuitive user interface makes adding, editing, converting, and organizing your books a breeze.
Cons:
The frequency of updates, while welcome, is a bit of a hassle.
There are very occasional problems with stability on the latest release when I run it on my Mac with Snow Leopard. It's a simple matter to relaunch the program.