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Calibre and Kindle
By Greg | January 28, 2010
I’ve said this on many posts in the last few months and I’ll say it again – The one major improvement that almost everyone I talk to about the Kindle wants, is a way to organize their books, with some sort of folder system or maybe something else. Well, there is “something else” available that will allow you to view, convert and catalog e-books. As you’ve probably guessed by the post title the name of this ebook library manager is Calibre.
From Calibre:
calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:
- Library management
- E-book conversion
- Syncing to e-book reader devices
- Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
- Comprehensive e-book viewer
- Constant server for online access to your book collection
Here’s one of the things that I like best about Calibre – You can sort books by any of the following: Title, Author, Date added, Date published, Size, Rating, Series, etc. If you have a ton of e-books this can come in very handy and until we do get a folder system on the Kindle this seems to be one of the best ways to organize your Kindle books. You can also use ‘tags’ to categorize your books however you like.
Another great feature is Calibre’s ebook conversion. It can convert from any of these formats: CBZ, CBR, CBC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT
to these formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, TCR, TXT – for the Kindle owners out there the .MOBI format is the one that we need to convert to.
Calibre is a pretty useful site for Kindle owners and the price can’t be beat either – it’s free. If you like the service and would like to make a donation there’s a button in the upper right corner for you to make your donation.
Don’t forget that you can use it to convert many of the free Kindle books that you can download also. For more info on what you can do with Calibre go here: Calibre
Also, there’s a very good forum over at MobileRead that has all kinds of good info and answers many questions about Calibre: Calibre at MobileRead Forums
Have any of you used Calibre yet? What do you think of it?
Topics: Calibre, Free Kindle Books, Kindle, Kindle Books, Kindle Ebooks |
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January 29th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Mostly good – but a little “buggy”. For example, I like my ebook filename to be in the format: authorln, authorfn authorinit – booktitle – but Calibre insists on: booktitle – authorln_ authorfn authorinit. Though it has menu selections to change this they either don’t work or I haven’t figured it out yet; I make changes and nothing happens.
All things considered though, it’s a great utility
February 9th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
How do you get the Calibre to your kindle after the download to your pc?