Calibre is an e-book library management application with a variety of useful functions including device-specific e-book conversion, news download and conversion, viewer, and content server for online access to your collection.
The program syncs automatically with many different physical devices including Kindle, Nook, Sony PRS, BeBook, Android, iOS and many more (full list). It supports a variety of e-book formats, including azw, azw1, cbr, cbz, chm, epub, fb2, html, imp, lit, lrf, lrx, mobi, odt, oebzip, opf, pdb, pdf, pml, pmlz, prc, rar, rb, rtf, snb, tpz, txt and zip.
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| System Requirements: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | No |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | GPL |
| How to extract: | Download the "portable installer" and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch calibre-portable.exe. |
| What's new? |
New Features:
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Portable?
.. creates a cache file in ...\Temp\fontconfig\cache
.. creates a registry key with dozens of entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech
V0.8.8
TTwrs: Yes, portable (stores all of its settings in the application folder), but not stealth (leaves non-settings-related stuff on the computer). Besides, it seems that a lot of portable applications leave these Trolltech registry keys behind anyway.
V0.8.8
Thanks for explaining the Portable/Stealth difference.
V0.8.8
Softpedia gave it 5/5 http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/calibre-Review-231233.shtml and other reviews have also been very good.
V0.8.26
Ton of features and capabilities. It's nice to see a tool that just doesn't have any comparison to commercial alternatives in terms of overall functionality and flexibility. If you're an active user of almost any eReader, it seems at some point you'll at some point need this program to share, convert, manage, or sync multiple devices.
v0.9.18
Calibre may be good, but it wants to copy my entire ebook library to another folder/tree! There doesn't seem to be any way to stop this. I also don't see a way for it to add recent acquisitions.
v0.9.29
The best eBook reader management software by far. I have used this since I got a Sony PRS-600 a year or so ago and still use it's built in server for Aldiko on my android devices.
V0.8.7