Calibre

Calibre
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Softonic review

Jon Riggall

“Organize, store, and read your e-books”

by Jon Riggall about Calibre

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.

Pros
  • Convert, import and read your ebooks easily
  • Clear interface
Cons
  • RSS support isn't brilliant

Calibre (7) User reviews

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    When I bought my kindle I was disappointed to discover that all of the ebooks I had bought from elsewhere for my android tablet were not going to transfer easily. I mucked around with a couple of o... More

    • Review of Calibre - 20 Jun 2011
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  • tacman tacman
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    So far everybody has talked about Calibre's great E-Pub support but no one has mentioned the feature that I love. Calibre lets you download the full text of dozens of major magazines and newsppers.... More

    • Review of Calibre - 06 Sep 2011
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  • paulkon paulkon
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    I installed and can use this program with no problems on Windows 7 64-bit. I have everything updated as of start of 2012.

    Calibre is great--I was able to make an ebook out of my favorite blogger b... More

    • Review of Calibre - 15 Jan 2012
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Softonic Answers Calibre

  • Rik  (Softonic)
    eBook app that searches through multiple documents at once?
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    2011-07-06 13:13:24
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    Hey,

    A user asked us for an eBook reader/manager with which you can search for keywords in multiple books at the same time. Does anybody know an application (or plugin) that does this?

    He was disappointed that this is not possible with Calibre.
    I don’t believe this is possible either with another popular manager, Blio. And yBook doesn’t let you either. I just checked a reader that does have a decent search function (as Nick writes http://fbreader.en.softonic.com/), but still it’s not possible to load more than one book.

    Cheers,

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