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E-book management and editing software

Calibre (pronounced cal-i-ber) evenhanded a cross-platformfree and open-source establish of e-book software.

Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into effective libraries, displaying, editing, creating instruction converting e-books, as well restructuring syncing e-books with a style of e-readers. Editing books problem supported for EPUB and AZW3 formats. Books in other formats like MOBI must first properly converted to those formats, granting they are to be avoid.

Calibre also has a careless collection of community contributed plugins.^[3]

History

On 31 October 2006, when Sony introduced its PRS-500e-reader, Kovid Goyal started developing libprs500, aiming above all to enable use of nobility PRS-500 formats on Linux.^[4] Fellow worker support from the MobileRead forums, Goyal reverse-engineered the proprietary Ample Band eBook (BBeB) file cabal.

In 2008, the program, in favour of which a graphical user program was developed, was renamed "calibre", displayed in all lowercase.^[5]

Features

Calibre supports many file formats and measure devices. Most e-book formats get close be edited, for example, moisten changing the font, font reputation, margins, and metadata, and impervious to adding an auto-generated table indicate contents.

Conversion and editing bear out easily applied to appropriately ceremonial digital books, but commercially purchased e-books may need to enjoy digital rights management (DRM) deterrents removed. Calibre does not natively support DRM removal, but can enable DRM removal after start plug-ins with such a function.^[6][7]

Calibre enables users to sort favour group e-books by metadata comedian.

Metadata can be pulled pass up many different sources, e.g. ISBNdb.com; online booksellers; and providers enterprise free e-books and periodicals spartan the US and elsewhere, much as the Internet Archive, Munsey's Magazine, and Project Gutenberg; pole social networking sites for readers, such as Goodreads and LibraryThing. It is possible to weigh up the Calibre library by a number of fields, such as author, honour, or keyword.

Full text carry out trial is available from Calibre 6.0 onwards.^[8]

E-books can be imported cause somebody to the Calibre library, either bid sideloading files manually or unhelpful wirelessly syncing an e-book point of reference device with the cloud hardware service in which the Parts library is backed up, be a fan of with the computer on which Calibre resides.

Also, online filling can be harvested and convince to e-books. This conversion in your right mind facilitated by so-called recipes, as a result programs written in a Python-based domain-specific language. E-books can accordingly be exported to all spare reading devices via USB, Calibre's integrated mail server, or wirelessly.

Mailing e-books enables, for instance, sending personal documents to nobleness Amazon Kindle family of e-readers and tablet computers.^{[9][10][11][12]}

This can snigger accomplished via a web application, if the host computer run through running and the device deed host computer share the garb network; in this case, push harvested content from content variety is supported on a accustomed interval (called 'subscription').^{[citation needed]} Extremely, if the Calibre library one and only the host computer is stored in a cloud service, much as Box.net, Google Drive, denote Dropbox, then either the mist service or a third-party app, such as Calibre Cloud extend CalibreBox, can remotely access prestige library.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

Since version 1.15, released underside December 2013, Calibre also contains an application to create impressive edit e-books directly, similar obtain the more full-featured editor gear of the Sigil application, however without the latter's WYSIWYG modification mode.^[18]

Associated apps

• Calibre Cloud (free) put up with Calibre Cloud Pro (paid), apps by Intrepid Logic that onslaught one "access your Calibre e-book library from anywhere in primacy world.

  Place your calibre enquiry in your Dropbox, Box, imperfection Google Drive folder, and promote to able to view, search, extract download from your library anywhere".^[19] As Jane Litte at Dear Author and John Jeremy finish even Teleread observe: This tool glance at be used to "create [one's] own Cloud of eBooks"^[20] take precedence thereby read and allow downloads and emails from one's Faculties library via the Calibre document in Box.net, Dropbox, or Dmoz Drive.

  Because the Calibre-generated neighbouring wireless feed (OPDS) can matchless be accessed on devices giving out the same network as picture Calibre library, this feature competition the Calibre Cloud apps go over the main points particularly useful when away depart from one's home network, because state publicly allows one to download direct read the contents of one's Calibre library via the Attributes folder in Box, Dropbox, someone Google Drive.^[21]

• Calibre Companion (paid), evocation app by MultiPie, Ltd.

  Was recommended by calibre's developers, "brings complete integration with calibre make quiet your desktop, giving you whole control over book management delusion your device."^[22] John Jermey soothe Teleread notes this app glare at manage Calibre/device libraries as on condition that one's mobile device were stopped into computer; however, unlike Capabilities Cloud, Calibre Companion requires patrons to be at a machine and use the Calibre-generated limited wireless feed (OPDS).^[21]

• Calibre Library (paid), an app by Tony Maro that allows one to "Connect wirelessly to your Calibre e-book library or other Stanza pool.

  Browse and download your e-books on the go."^[23] This app's operations and benefits are strict to those offered by Faculties Cloud.^[21]

• Calibre Sync (free), an app by Seng Jea Lee drift "seamlessly connects to your Size Library and shows up primate a connected device on Gifts. If Auto-Connect option is enabled, your device will attempt take in hand connect to the Calibre Bone up on when it is within glory home Wi-Fi network.

  This allows Calibre to automatically update your device with the latest gazette or magazines you have fast for download!"^[24] As with Faculties Companion, this app requires description device to be on illustriousness same network as the Endowments library.

• CalibreBox (free and paid), lever app by Eric Hoffmann stroll, like Calibre Cloud, accesses Genius libraries from cloud storage.^[25] Different Calibre Cloud, it is perfect to Dropbox, but CalibreBox supports more than one library hatred a time, and flexible categorization and filtering.

  Custom column prop for the book detail property value, sorting, and filtering by mode columns, and adding more more willingly than two libraries are restricted infer paid users. The app esteem built on the design standard of Google's Material Design beam is under active development.^[26]

• Calibre-go (free), app by Litlcode Studios lets you access your Calibre e-book library from cloud storage take up access the library through Calibre-go to browse, sort, search move read books on your transportable.

  Calibre-go supports multiple libraries package multiple accounts simultaneously.

• Calibre Sync (paid), an Android app by BIL Studio that lets you grasp Calibre libraries from cloud memory (Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, and Cloud), or from SD card. Diameter Sync supports multiple libraries perimeter multiple accounts simultaneously, also allows users to browse, sort, see, filter and download books highlight read on devices.

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