Amazon has a great reading platform in the Kindle, but sometimes it’s not enough. Sometimes I need to take the notes I make in a Kindle ebook and use them...Continue reading
Category: calibre
Users Hate Calibre 4.0’s New eBook Viewer
If you use calibre to manage your ebook library and are fond of its ebook reading function, you might want to hold off on the latest update. Calibre 4.0 was...Continue reading
Ten Cool Tricks for Calibre
I was setting up my new laptop this weekend (well, newer) when I realized I hadn’t updated calibre in forever. Calibre is well known for being the best free app...Continue reading
A Dozen Tools for Managing Your Kindle Notes and Highlights
Amazon’s Kindle is a great reading platform with a number of useful annotation features, but sometimes it’s not enough. I recently updated my four-year-old post on Kindle annotation tools, and I...Continue reading
How to Send an Epub eBook to Your Kindle by Email
Amazon offers a free conversion service where you can send documents to your Kindle, but there is a problem: it doesn’t work with Epub files. Even though there are services you...Continue reading
Calibre is Being Used to Run 1,800 Online Content Servers – including De Facto Pirate Servers
Calibre is a widely used ebook library tool that can convert ebooks to and from just about any format and help you load said ebook on to just about any...Continue reading
BookFusion’s New Calibre Plugin Lets You Sync Your eBook Library With the Cloud
If you keep your ebook library in calibre, and you want an easy way to sync it online with your mobile devices, may I recommend that you look at BookFusion’s...Continue reading
Kepubify Can Make Kobo Kepub eBooks Out of (DRM-Free) Epub eBooks
Like Google and Apple, Kobo uses its own unique form of the Epub ebook file format. Google’s file format has no known name, and of course Apple uses iBooks, but Kobo’s...Continue reading
Calibre 3.0 Released
Que the marching band, drum majorettes, and confetti cannons: Calibre 3.0 has left beta and was officially released last week. Initially released in 2006 as libprs500, calibre has grown from humble...Continue reading
Seventeen Apps That Help You Make eBooks
Amazon may be quietly locking out its competition with ebook creation apps like the newly released Kindle Creator, but not all ebook creation apps tie you down to a single distribution...Continue reading
The Failure of Print and E-Book Bundling
How many times has this happened to you: you buy a print book, you start to read it, you go on a trip, you forget to take the book, you...Continue reading
Just Got a Kindle? Here’s What You Should Do Next
Many people opened their presents a couple days ago to find a Kindle, and now they are looking for ways to get the most out of their new gadget. The...Continue reading
eBook Library App Calibre Turns Ten Today
Ten years ago today a physics grad student at CalTech announced on MobileRead that he had reverse-engineered the USB driver protocols for the Sony Reader PRS-500 so that he could use...Continue reading
How to Store Your eBook Library Online On the Cheap
Updated: 8 June 2017 After stripping the DRM from their ebooks, the biggest concern for any ebook lover is how to store an ebook library so it is safe, secure, and...Continue reading
How to View Epub, Kindle eBooks in OSX Quick Look
Calibre is a great tool for managing your ebook library. It has a lot of cool tricks, but sometimes one wants to use the file system in one’s PC to manage...Continue reading