The pane in the middle will show you the books you own and in an iTunes like style, and most usefully the bar on the right will show you detailed information about the ebook you currently have selected. The left pane show you all the books currently stored in your library and lets you search through them through a variety of different categories.

In terms of interface the app can be a little bit clunky and the multi-pane interface is a far cry from the slick sort of UIs we’re used to on the Mac, but once you learn your way around the many buttons and side-panes you’ll be organising your ebooks with ease. With Calibre you can sort through your library via a large number of filters, edit the metadata involved with any of your books, covert ebooks into/from a variety of formats, and transfer files to and from your ebook reader. On a kindle, unless you buy directly from amazon, you’re left with a clunky drag and drop file system and no clear way of editing any of the data present in ebooks you may have bought from other online stores, already own, or have sourced from site specialising in freely available out of copyright books (like Project Guttenberg)Ĭalibre, which is available for free from the developers own website here, is a ebook management tool that will finally help you take control of your existing ebook library. If you have a kindle or an ebook reader and you’ve been trying to do more with it than just download books from the official outlets tied to certain manufacturers, you will have noticed that there’s a lack of features for getting ebooks properly formatted, organised and transfered.

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