Calibre the Open Source eBook Library Manager
If you are attached with Ebooks and have a huge collection, then it’s really hard for you to find a specific title quickly. Calibre, an open source and cross platform application that helps to manage your ebook collection easily. It has support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X including format conversion, feeds, built-in ebook reader etc.
Calibre comes with many great features as follows …
- Format conversion from all major ebook formats.
- Synchronizing to portable ebook reader devices
- Calibre can also be used as a all-in-one ebook reader.
- Multiple OS support
- Calibre can automatically fetch new from major news portals like New York Times, BBC, The Economist, ESPN, Wall Street Journal etc.
- You can sort your ebook collection ordered by Title, Author, Date, Publisher, Rating, Size etc.
- Calibre can also fetch metadata from web for a particular book following its ISBN number or title or author; even you can grab the cover image of a book as well.
This free open source application comes with very easy to use and wizard based installation and right after installation it will ask you to select the existing ebook folder on your local hard disk. Also Calibre support synchronization from portable ebook readers like Sony PRS series, Amazon Kindle 1 & 2, Cybook Gen 3, iPhone etc.
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Sounds pretty useful, I don’t have quite so many ebooks that I need software to manage them though