Calibre - A free and open source e-book library management application

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Last night I learned about Calibre and I am amazed. It is basically iTunes but for ebooks. I have a large collection of ebooks that were in mobi format. When first opening up Calibre it asks what kind of device you would like it setup for. Obviously I chose the B&N NookColor option. After Calibre added my collection to my library, I then connected my nook. Highlighted all the books and then right clicked > Send to device. You get the option of sending it to internal storage or the SD card. It then asks if you would like to convert all the books to a compatible format for the device. I left it syncing over night, woke up and only 2 of 568 books did not convert properly. Now on my NC I have a huge library of books to choose from. The "Books" section within your "Library" does take some time to load though so I took some time and added the more prevalent books I want to read to "My Shelves" and now I have a good amount of quickly accessible reading material.

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Don't degrade the good name of Calibre by comparing it to crappy iTunes.

Originally Posted by rajendra82

Don't degrade the good name of Calibre by comparing it to crappy iTunes.

YEAH!!!!!! I hate iTunes.
I also hate it when people describe my espresso catering business as "it's like Starbucks, but better".

Cheers,
kev

Been using Calibre since I got my NC, and love it. I just wish it (or the NC) handled cover art a lot better. Calibre seems to create a jpg file in the same directory as the ebook for the cover, instead of using the on on page 1 of the ebook, most of the time. I get a lot of blank covers that do have cover art on page 1 on my NC.

I've tried to find solutions (save "epub as epub", and convert in Sigil -then in Calibre), but none have been successful.

Good call letting people know about Calibre though. It is very good.

Originally Posted by Bimboy

Been using Calibre since I got my NC, and love it. I just wish it (or the NC) handled cover art a lot better. Calibre seems to create a jpg file in the same directory as the ebook for the cover, instead of using the on on page 1 of the ebook, most of the time. I get a lot of blank covers that do have cover art on page 1 on my NC.

I've tried to find solutions (save "epub as epub", and convert in Sigil -then in Calibre), but none have been successful.

Good call letting people know about Calibre though. It is very good.

I solved that problem by rooting and using another reader, specifically Aldiko, which IMHO is a much better app than the stock Nook reader.

Nice share, never heard of this before. Thanks!!!

Calibre is great not only for organizing my ebooks but also to convert them to ePub. I had a ton of PDFs and calibre converted them to ePub in under an hour. It also makes it easy to organize books by author on the nook because it automatically formats to (Last, First name).

I'd heard of Calibre before. Never thought to use it though as I've never really had a use for it til now.

Is this strictly PC side, or is there a reader/library app on the market as well?

If not, what reader/library app should I be using? I dont like the BN stock software at all, (clunky and slow mostly) so I want to avoid using it.

Can I use Calibre to resize my comics for my new NC but NOT change what format there in? I plan on using ACV to actually read them