The application supports various formats including EPUB, LRF, HTML, MOBI, PDF books and others and offers you several options for adding of books into the library. So you can add items from single or multiple folders (including subfolders) or by entering the ISBN code and then group them by author, language or format.
Furthermore, you can sort your books by name, popularity and rating, define and manage new categories, edit meta tags for a bulk of books, perform search and replace operations, make conversions between different formats supported (in bulk as well) or create catalogs.
The built-in viewer comes with several handy customization options to ease up your reading. You can adjust the font size, the margins of pages and the text width in full screen mode, change the color of background and text and also customize the default keyboard shortcuts.
Moreover, Calibre supports bookmarks and also allows you to download covers for your e-books as well as news from various online sources that you can view in a digital book format.
Pros:
- supports batch conversion and metadata editing
- support for all major e-book readers
- can schedule downloads
- numerous customization options
Bottom line:
One can use this application to manage and read e-books and also to make quick conversions between various book formats.
