


This is how you add a plugin to the Calibre program. These plugins can increase the functionality of Calibre. Kovid has written Calibre so that it accepts other programmers’ improvements by allowing plugins to be added. Plus, as I have blogged about before, you can use Calibre as a catalog for even paper books. This is primarily because I like to shop for ebooks at more than one place and Calibre helps me track and maintain my burgeoning ebook library.

Without Calibre, my enjoyment of ebooks would be greatly diminished. He has created, maintained and supported a software program called Calibre and distributes it for free. Kovid Goyal is probably the most generous man of the ebook publishing era. Other interesting features that Calibre offers is: transforming an RSS feed into an eBook, viewing eBooks using an integrated reader or remotely accessing Calibre's collection using a web browser.Jane Dear Jane Calibre / Dear Jane 23 Comments Not only does it allow updating the metadata of eBooks stored in these devices, but you can also create collections from the tags defined in the program.

The formats that Calibre accepts as input are MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, ODT, FB2, HTML, CBR, CBZ, RTF, TXT, PDF and LRS.Ĭalibre can synchronize the information in its database with that of some eBook readers such as Sony PRS 500/505/700, Cybook Gen 3, Amazon Kindle (1 and 2), as well as the iPhone. The format conversion generates as output three types of documents: EPUB, LRF, and MOBI. Calibre is an eBook manager that helps you organize your eBook collection, perform conversions between different eBook formats and synchronize the content of the program's database with that of some eBook reading devices.Īs an eBook manager, Calibre lets you sort your eBook collection by title, author, date, publisher, rating, size, and series.
