And, if you find that you use the program quite a bit, you might find your way to donate a sum to the developer. For the price (Free), I don’t think you’d regret it. I highly recommend it for everyone who downloads ebooks to their desktop. The better you are at tagging, the more powerful your search results.Ĭalibre is the closest thing I’ve seen to being the iTunes for eBooks in its organizational abilities. I.e., you can search for every book you’ve tagged historical and hero in pursuit. (Wouldn’t it be great it online bookstores implemented something like this as an alternate way to browse?)īrowse by Tags allows you to further refine your viewing search by author, series, publisher, format, ratings, and tags. Click directly on a cover to open another window to reveal the back blurb and other information. Click on space to the left or right of a cover to advance backward or forward. Even better, though, are the two buttons at the bottom of the program screen: Browse by Covers, Browse by Tagsīrowse by Covers mimics the iTunes Coverflow. For more advanced sorting, there is the word search function. You can click on the field names for instant sorting, either in descending or ascending order. Once the metadata is entered for each book, you can then use the sorting features. On ebook files, you might need to add the cover image manually. Once you’ve pulled the information in from, you then click on the “Fetch Cover Image from Server.” For most print books, you’ll get the right cover based on the ISBN. Sometimes, you might need to enter the ISBN to get the right record to pull up. You simply need to enter the right title or author. access allows you to obtain summary data (like a blurb), the ISBN No, the publisher, title and author.
For example, it can tell the ebook software what the title of the book is, who the author is, the publisher and so forth. Metadata is the information that tells programs what the file is. Your files can even be zipped or rar’ed and Calibre will read the files inside.
Calibre will import the files and fill in the information in the “metadata” fields as best as it can. Simply drag and drop all your files onto the Calibre window. It’s beyond easy to use this program for simply managing your ebook reading. You can make notes about each read, rate the book, and add identifying tags that can be searched later.
This program can serve a library tracking system. It doesn’t matter if you never plan to convert your books into any other format. You can organize your books by author, title, series, publisher, personal tags, and personal ratings. In it’s most simplistic use, Calibre is intended to be an ebook organization tool. The Part 2 of this article will address Calibre as a format conversion tool Calibre As an eBook Management Tool This week I’m going to address Calibre as the eBook management tool, a program I think is a must for every ebook reader regardless of what device she uses (except maybe the Kindle).
The program is free and open source, available for MAC, Windows PC, and Linux users. Jane Book Reviews / Ebooks Calibre / digital publishing / ebook software / ebook technology / Sony Reader 67 CommentsĬalibre is a software program that is developed by a devoted reader and brilliant programmer, kovidgoyal. DecemCalibre: The eBook Reader’s Best Friend, Part 1 of 2