Oct 28 2012
Intro On October 26, 2012, the Register of the Federal Copyright Office issued the triennial exemptions to the DMCA law. (PDF here) Every three years, the Register of the Copyright opens a proceeding whereby it accepts public arguments as to why certain anti circumvention processes should be allowed. It’s a flawed system but the only(…)
Jul 1 2012
This is a follow on to Jane’s post on automating the adding of books to Calibre in Mac OS, but this time for Windows users. There is a neat little program called Belvedere from Lifehacker which is kind of a knock off of the Hazel program Jane mentioned for Mac’s. Belvedere is an automated file manager that(…)
Jun 24 2012
I saw a post the other day about using Hazel + Calibre to automatically import your Kindle files into Calibre. While the user did this to automatically strip the DRM from the books, the tutorial is smart for any one who wants to create an ongoing catalog of their purchases. It was the first time(…)
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(…)
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