Jan 22 2012
Intro Now that you have your Calibre database set up just the way you like it, you need to figure out how to get the books from your computer to your device. You can use the tethered or the over the air (untethered) method. Tethered Tethered means to physically attach your device to your computer [...]
Jan 15 2012
Part two of settling up a new library with Calibre. The first can be found here for plugins and metadata. Once you have the books entered into your library, you can then manipulate the data. Calibre now allows you to create your own custom columns. Calibre comes with columns for Title, Title Sort, Author, Author Sort, [...]
Jan 8 2012
Introduction I am a huge fan of the free open source software written by Kovid called Calibre. It is an organization, management, conversion tool for both print and digital books. I’ve had several people email me asking what the best set up is for Calibre along with what plugins that they should download. The following is [...]
Oct 30 2011
Introduction Organizing your books on the Kindle device is one of the greatest struggles (and one of the greatest flaws) of the Kindle devices. I admit to not being encouraged by Kindle Fire screenshots that user organization will be improved with the new devices. This screenshot, for example, shows only the standard sorting features. About [...]
Jul 24 2011
This post has been updated as of October 16, 2011. ***** Apple appears to have pushed Google out of the ebookstore. Kobo released an updated app with no buy link. Google is randomly deleting Google Plus accounts. Yet another ebook format has been announced. I’m getting pretty fed up with the powers that be [...]
Dec 5 2010
Kovid Goyal is probably the most generous man of the ebook publishing era. He has created, maintained and supported a software program called Calibre and distributes it for free. Without Calibre, my enjoyment of ebooks would be greatly diminished. This is primarily because I like to shop for ebooks at more than one place and [...]
Oct 17 2010
Update: I have had some readers report problems with dropbox + the Kindle 2. Last week Sarah Wendell had reviews of many different electronic reading devices. One thing she mentioned was how she moved her digital books around quite a bit and how she did not like using a cord to transfer her books. I [...]
Oct 3 2010
I’ve received a number of questions from readers about what to do with all the PDFs they’ve purchased over the years now that they are ready to migrate to a dedicated ereader. The fact is that there is no perfect conversion of PDFs -> 6″ screen. PDFs were made to be read on a larger [...]
Jun 20 2010
This is part two of using Calibre to create a catalog of your paper library. However, the information below can be useful to those who use Calibre for organization of their digital books. There is a screencast for this which you can find here (full screen) or embedded below. Screencaps and a written version follows. [...]
Jun 20 2010
Dear Jane: You mentioned something last week about using Calibre to track my wants and to be reads and purchases for my print books. Is that possible? ~Lauren Dear Lauren: Yes! I created a short screencast to walk you through adding books to create a library of your print books. The process is fairly simple. [...]
Jun 6 2010
This past week saw the release of the BN App for the iPad, an upgraded Stanza which is compatible with the iPad and a major upgrade to Calibre. BN App for iPad [imagebrowser id=85] The BN App for the iPad is a nice reading app that allows you to customize the font, font size, line [...]
Aug 16 2009
If you are a reader with over a couple hundred books in Calibre, it is fairly difficult to navigate, particularly if you are using Stanza. To make Calibre’s library more accessible via the internet (and thus via Stanza), a wonderful programmer shared this script on MobileRead. Essentially, the script looks at the database of Calibre [...]
Jul 25 2009
All the links I should have posted this week but didn’t: Kovid has released Calibre 0.6, a major upgrade to the best software program in existence for digital book readers. This program allows you to manage, rate, sort, tag, convert your ebooks. If you don’t have it, you should. Calibre is available for Windows, MAC, [...]
Mar 29 2009
I had a reader email me because she couldn’t get Stanza Desktop to work with her iTouch nor could she get Calibre to work with Stanza. After much trial and error on her part, she got both to work. She gave me permission to share these results so that if anyone else was having problems, [...]
Jan 18 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a free program called Calibre. In the first post, we discussed what a great tool Calibre was for ebook management but the real beauty of Calibre is its iPhone/Sony Reader/Cybook interface. Calibre was first developed to assist Sony Reader users to add content to the device. Because [...]
Recent Comments