I still don’t have a portable reader device that I like, and I don’t read a lot on my PC display. I tested Calibre by importing basically every ebook I have on disk, which at this point isn’t all that many. When a format isn’t supported, Calibre attempts to launch the associated app to render the book.Īll three aspects work well, though I ran into some problems with format conversion. It’s an ebook viewer that can render ebooks for reading in most popular formats.It’s a collection of import/export modules behind a GUI, allowing you to take an unencumbered ebook in one of a long list of formats, and export it to a different format out of that same long list.It can send books to any of a growing list of hardware readers. It’s a sort of jukebox for ebooks: a simple database manager that allows you to browse your ebook collection, search for individual titles, and edit metadata by individual title or in bulk.There are three general aspects to Calibre: It’s a Python app, and can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac.
If you install no other ebook reader or manager, get Calibre. That’s amazing for a GPLed app, but Calibre itself is amazing in its way. The current version is 0.7.6, and author Kovid Goyal posts updated releases frequently, as often every couple of weeks. I’ve done a lot more in the past week, and overall I’m pleased. Alas, I didn’t test most of its features back then, especially its file conversion modules. It did everything it said it did, reliably and without much fuss. I tried Calibre when it first came out a little over two years ago (v0.4.83) and was reasonably impressed.
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