-=PCTechTalk=- Important if you have a large collection of ebooks (Always trying to help)

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Editorial Review of Calibre

You've finally bought that Kindle or Nook or Kobo that you've been dreaming
about, and in a frenzy of future anticipation, you've purchased dozens of
e-book bestsellers. Then, delighting in libraries offering more than 1.5
million free, public domain works--plus thousands of magazines and
newspapers--you've loaded your e-reader with the literary goodies you have
always meant to read. At the end of the day, your e-reader holds scores or
even hundreds of e-books. In time, that could easily grow to thousands.
Organizing and searching among that many books, periodicals, and newspapers
on your device may require more time and effort than it's worth. That's when
you turn to Calibre.

Library management program Calibre helps catalog your e-book collection.
First, it surveys the e-books and other relevant files residing either on
your hard drive or your e-reader, and then inserts them into Calibre's main
directory. Once that information is in the directory, you can use it to
organize, categorize, annotate, search, rate, and save to disk. You can
customize or delete any of the data fields Calibre fills in, or add your
own.

On the left side are searchable and sortable categories: Authors, Formats,
Publishers, Ratings, News, and Tags. For instance, under Authors, Calibre's
defaults rank all authors according to how many of their works you own.
Click a specific author to display all their books in the library.

To the right of the main fields, a column displays plug-in information on
the highlighted e-book or publication: cover art, a list of formats in which
the e-book is available, tags (either downloaded or added by the user), and
the file path on your PC or e-reader where the work is stored. Beneath the
path is the publisher's description or summary of the e-book. Although you
can't customize this window, you can specify what plugins to use to
automatically download information into it. Scores of plugins are included,
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On top of the interface are the commands that transform Calibre from a
static directory to an e-book management powerhouse. Every function you can
think of for easy access and guaranteed readability is here. You can add
books from many different sources, edit and organize information about the
author (or anything else you want associated with the work), convert various
e-book formats to the one your e-reader uses, and download e-books to your
PC or any other device. And then there's Fetch News, a cornucopia of
thousands of free newspapers and other periodicals, in dozens of different
languages, that you can download directly to your e-reader, as well as
regularly schedule daily or weekly downloads. These commands are highly
customizable. And because Calibre is open source software with a dynamic
community forum, you can add to the list of components, features, and free
materials daily.

The down side of Calibre is that not everything works smoothly, and there
are gaps in functionality. For example, the directory cannot see e-books
stored in your e-reader's archives. If you want to add that information to
the library, you must first recall the e-book to your e-reader's active
directory. Another problem is that Calibre doesn't keep track of where your
e-books are stored, so you don't know if a specific e-book happens to be on
your PC, E-reader, smartphone, or whatever. And the user is occasionally
faced with a bewildering array of choices and options, without having a
clear idea of what to do next, or why.

Even with its quirks, Calibre belongs on every serious e-bookshelf as the
best way to manage your electronic library.

Note: This program is donationware. It is free to try, but the author
accepts donations towards further development.

--Sally Wiener Grotta & Daniel Grotta

 




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