Calibre (software)
Calibre is a free software suite for processing and managing e -book data for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. In many Linux distributions can install directly from the standard package sources the software.
History
Kovid Goyal began development on 31 October 2006, during the U.S. launch of the E -book Reader PRS - 500 from Sony, initially without a GUI, and under the name " libprs500 ". Its roots are an attempt to make the PRS -500 Linux usable. These reconstructed Kovid Goyal with support from the Mobile Read community the communications protocol for accessing the device via USB and wrote a converter for the used proprietary file format LRF.
In mid-2008 the name was changed to the present " Calibre ".
Functions
The variety (mostly also write) of supported file formats includes most currently relevant formats, which can be represented very highly configurable, printed and converted. The contents of this can also be recycled, for example by changing the font to be used or insert a table of contents automatically generated.
Calibre offers many functions such as cataloging and management of collections of electronic books. The books are in discoverable by different properties, and metadata that they can be provided. The latter can also be filled in automatically from various sources ( ISBNdb.com, Google Books, Amazon.com, LibraryThing ).
The books can be imported into Calibre and exported to various mobile devices. It is possible to synchronize books and metadata, where they are automatically converted into the specific data formats.
Messages from news websites can be automatically downloaded from the internet, packaged into a e-book file and transferred to a mobile device.
The file format support, mobile devices, news and metadata sources is modularly extensible.
Contents of the collection are also managed remotely via Internet, web browsers, mobile devices, etc. available or can ( for example, subscribed content) will be sent automatically ( " push").
Since version 0.9.34 texts can be converted to EPUB using Calibre in the format docx.
Since the version 1.15 electronic books in formats EPUB and AZW3 ( Kindle ) can be edited using Calibre.
Since version 1.22 it is possible to compare the content of e-book files together.
Technology
The application is written in the programming languages Python and C and is released under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as free software in the source code.
Go to news query to Calibre operated as an RSS feed reader; for remote access, it includes e- mail and web servers (HTTP).
Since version 0.9.9, a 64- bit version for Windows is available.