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Ten Cool Tricks for Calibre

21 April, 201921 April, 2019calibre, Tips and Tricks17 Comments

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...

A Dozen Tools for Managing Your Kindle Notes and Highlights

17 March, 201917 March, 2019calibre, Kindle (platform), Tips and Tricks12 Comments

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...

How to Download Your Kindle Notes and Highlights and Export Them (Updated for 2018)

13 March, 201914 March, 2019calibre, Kindle, Kindle (platform), Tips and Tricks94 Comments

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...

How to Send an Epub eBook to Your Kindle by Email

27 February, 201924 March, 2019calibre, Kindle (platform), Tips and Tricks6 Comments

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...

Calibre is Being Used to Run 1,800 Online Content Servers – including De Facto Pirate Servers

11 December, 201817 December, 2018calibre, PiracyLeave a comment

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...

BookFusion’s New Calibre Plugin Lets You Sync Your eBook Library With the Cloud

25 June, 201825 June, 2018calibre, Cloud Storage5 Comments

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...

Kepubify Can Make Kobo Kepub eBooks Out of (DRM-Free) Epub eBooks

17 December, 201717 December, 2017calibre, content creation, Epub, Epub3, Formats, Kobo7 Comments

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,...

Calibre 3.0 Released

19 June, 201719 June, 2017calibre18 Comments

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...

Fifteen Apps That Help You Make eBooks

6 April, 20172 May, 2019calibre, content creation, ebook tools, Tips and Tricks31 Comments

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...

The Failure of Print and E-Book Bundling

6 February, 201719 June, 2017Bundles, calibre3 Comments

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,...

Paul Biba’s eBook, eLibrary, eMuseum and ePublishing news compilation for week ending Saturday, February 4

4 February, 201719 June, 2017calibre, Link Post, Morning CoffeeLeave a comment

Editor's Note: The following is a compilation of tweets from @PaulKBiba, the former editor of Teleread. Library of Congress Releases New, Extensive Digitized Collection of Walt Whitman Primary Documents...

Just Got a Kindle? Here’s What You Should Do Next

27 December, 201619 June, 2017calibre, e-Reading Hardware, e-Reading Software, Kindle, Kindle (platform), Tips and Tricks7 Comments

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....

eBook Library App Calibre Turns Ten Today

31 October, 201616 May, 2018calibre, ebook tools8 Comments

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...

How to Store Your eBook Library Online On the Cheap

27 November, 201519 June, 2017calibre, Cloud Storage, Tips and Tricks28 Comments

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,...

How to View Epub, Kindle eBooks in OSX Quick Look

5 November, 201519 June, 2017calibre, ebook tools, Tips and Tricks5 Comments

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...

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