Comments on: Calibre: a single place to view, tag, and manage your ebook collection

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Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:49:27 +0000

[...] there is one free software titles which (as of this writing) is king, and that software is called Calibre.But Calibre may bee too ambitious and intrusive (it tags your ebooks, organizes copies of them [...]

By: voidoid

voidoid — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:35:33 +0000

I have a sony reader that I hardly used partly because I didn’t like struggling with the sony software. I have been using Calibre for a few weeks now and it is fantastic. Very intuitive — does everything that I wanted the sony software to do but which it wouldn’t. Plus you get free news — brilliant. HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

By: wookie

wookie — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:29:22 +0000

A friend of mine told me two very interesting things:

1) Statues should be made of Kovid Goyal in every town and city. To which I completely agree.
2) Placing the folder for Calibre’s library inside your Dropbox folder is very useful. I think it’s a brilliant idea and as soon as Callibre fixes the issue that Brian says on comment #5, I’ll reinstall Calibre that way.

By: Samer

Samer — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:31:58 +0000

@ Vonbrucken: awesome, thanks for the tip!

By: Cornflower

Cornflower — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:04:06 +0000

Just to add, yes, it demands its own file structure, so now, any new books or articles I download and want to add, I drag from the download directory to Calibre, then simply delete from download. Becaue of the metadata, you do have to use the software to organize your books, but with multiple tags as options (and the ability to create fields) this is easily done.

Next is to try the server.

By: Cornflower

Cornflower — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:54:10 +0000

I’d been having continual problems with the Sony eReader Library software when I discovered Calibre a couple months ago. I have never looked back. Continual updates, including new and updated news sources (over 300 news sources in English alone are configured). It is stable, converts well. Kudos to Koval Goyim et al

By: Vonbrucken

Vonbrucken — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:19:02 +0000

I have been using this tool for a while now, mostly to fetch news from my Read it later list …
The purpose of it is to read your articles off-line,for the full procedure just head over here :
http://readitlaterlist.com/blog/2010/02/read-your-list-on-your-kindleebook-reader-with-calibre/

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:48:45 +0000

I’ve been using this one for a while and it is (insistence on creating it’s own file structure aside) a must have app for anyone who owns an ereader or likes to read on other devices. (phones, netbooks, etc.)

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:07:18 +0000

I downloaded an gave it a try.

I set the default location for ebooks to a folder that already contained some.

Unfortunately it didn’t give the option to scan this folder for books and populate the db.

When I added them manually, it didn’t move. It copied them! So it created duplicates of the files within the ebook folder.

A strange default behaviour.

Other than that, it looks like a good program.

By: Samer

Samer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:19:34 +0000

@ Brian: it seems to store it in its own database.

Also, what I should have mentioned but didn’t: it will move your files and re-organize them into folders bearing the author’s last name. You will lose any organization that you have had previously.

The upside of this is that (a) you can tell Calibre where you want the new folder structure to be generally (e.g I moved it to D:\ebooks), and (b) once the ebooks are in the database, you can use the tag field to re-impose your own structure that way, using the searchbox to retrieve.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:04:24 +0000

How does Calibre store the metadata?
Is it stored in the comments field of the files own metadata (this could be lost if moved from an NTFS drive) or is it stored in the program and identified by the file path (which would mean the metadata would be lost if the file was moved)?

By: Samer

Samer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:50:31 +0000

@ hasit: not more ebooks than paper books; more ebooks than hardbacks.
Typically a book will come in two flavors, a hard cover and soft cover (paperback). They are selling more ebooks than hardbacks; paperbacks are the most popular kind of books, and are not included.

By: hasit

hasit — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:12:17 +0000

Amazon selling more ebooks than paper books? That is unbelievable!
Nice app by the way.