Calibre
Calibre is an open source complete e-library
solution. It
offers library
management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well
as
e-book reader sync features.
Calibre is primarily a ebook cataloging program. It manages
your ebook
collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical
book,
i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in
several
formats. It also upports conversion from a dozen different ebook
formats to
LRF and EPUB. A graphical interface to the conversion software can be
accessed easily by just clicking the "Convert E-books" button.
Calibre has a modular device driver design that makes adding
support for
different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for the
SONY PRS 500/505/700 and the iPhone (with the stanza reader software).
Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the
library
and the creation of collections on the device based on the tags defined
in
the library view. If an book has more than one format available,
calibre
automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device.
Calibre can automatically fetch news from a number of
websites/RSS feeds,
format the news into a ebook and upload to a connected device. There is
support for generating LRF/EPUB ebooks. The ebooks include the *full*
versions of the articles, not just the summaries.
Calibre has also a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major
ebook
formats.
Calibre 0.8.48
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Price
Free to download
Size
94MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Calibre Team
Website
calibre-ebook.com
System Requirements
Python 2.7.1 or higher (not 3.x)
Python Imaging Library 1.1.6 or higher
Qt 4.8.0 or higher
PyQt 4.9.1 or higher
python-mechanize 0.1.11
ImageMagick 6.5.9 or higher
xdg-utils 1.0.2 or higher
lxml 2.2.1 or higher
python-dateutil 1.4.1 or higher
cssutils 0.9.7a3 or higher
BeautifulSoup 3.0.5 or higher
dnspython 1.6.0 or higher
poppler 0.12.0 or higher
podofo 0.8.2 or higher
libwmf 0.2.8 or higher
chmlib 0.40 or higher
ICU 4.4 or higher
Support
Sites:
User
Manual, FAQ,
Video
Tutorials, Tutorials
Selected
Reviews:
Brad's
Reader, Manga
Xanadu
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Features include:
- Library management
- Designed around the concept of the logical book
- Sort books by:
- Title
- Author
- Date
- Publisher
- Rating
- Size
- Series
- Supports extra searchale metadata
- Supports the conversion of many input formats to many
output formats
- Input Formats: CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT,
LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT
- Output Formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML,
RB, PDF, SNB, TCR, TXT
- Syncing to e-book reader devices
- Fetch news from websites and RSS fees
- Over 300 hundreds news sources
- Plugin based
- Viewer:
- Displays all major ebook formats
- Table of Contents
- Full screen mode
- Bookmarks
- CSS
- Reference mode
- Printing
- Searching
- Dictionary lookup
- Copying test and images
- Customization of rendering
- Embedded fonts
- Highly customizable
- Built-in web server to view ebook collection using a web
browser over the net
- Email books
- Download news
- Support for mobile devices
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Last Updated Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 03:07 PM EDT
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