Calibre E-book Manager and Reader
Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that
enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between
different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and
read your e-books with the include viewer. You can
sort you books by author, title, date and other details, download meta
information and book covers, add personal tags and comments, and view
your image in a cover flow display. Calibre
supports all popular e-book formats and enables you to convert your
books to different formats, using advanced conversion techniques to
maintain the structure of the e-book. The program
also offers extensive support for synchronizing of e-books with popular
devices, such as Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, and many others.
Calibre's welcome wizard
let us choose from a long list of interface languages. It also prompted
us to set up our e-book library by creating a destination folder or
browsing to existing e-books. By default, Calibre creates its library
folder in your Documents library. Of course, you can change it later,
but it's not a bad idea to start with the right folder in the right
location, since your e-book collection may grow rapidly when you see
what's available for free (or cheap). It's also easy to establish your
e-book library on a USB drive, memory card, or external drive. (You can
lug your entire library around with you without giving yourself a
hernia! Try that with hardbacks.) Next, we set up Calibre to be
compatible with our specific e-book gadget. We could choose devices from
a list of 15 different manufacturers, including Amazon, Apple, and
Barnes & Noble, as well as generic devices such as smartphones and
tablets. The setup finished with links to demo videos and an online User
Manual. Better yet, Calibre's main interface opens with one free e-book
already displayed: "The Calibre Quick-Start Guide." A colorful
interface with a familiar layout makes for easy navigation, aided and
abetted by icons with easy-to-grasp labels such as Get Books and Fetch
News, each with equally clear submenus.
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