
Calibre only works with non- DRM versions of all the eBook formats.
Save time on managing your e-book collectionĬalibre can be used as a viewer for all the major eBook formats. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It can output LRF, ePUB, and/or MOBI.Ĭalibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. It can also automatically download and convert RSS feeds. Multiple HTML or HTML with images will work if they are zipped up together. It can convert from HTML, LIT, RTF, TXT, MOBI, and PDF (simple text+few images), and ePUB. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to eBook conversion as well as device sync features. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works on Linux, MacOS X and Windows. 9 Usage of regular expressions inside CalibreĬalibre (previously Libprs500) is an eBook management program, conversion tool, and includes an eBook Reader. in the same place as the "Calibre Library" folder). So while you can open any library located anywhere on your computer with calibre Portable, it will not be remembered on restart unless it is located in the portable folder (i.e. For example:Ĭalibre-portable-installer.exe "C:\Calibre Portable"Ĭalibre Portable only remembers libraries that are placed inside the portable folder. You can prevent the installer from asking for an install location by running it with a command line argument pointing to the directory for the install.
This can be done by making a copy of the "Calibre Library" folder and all its contents. Portable media can occasionally fail so you should make periodic backups of your calibre library. The installer will automatically update calibre Portable. If you want to upgrade a previous version of calibre Portable, download the latest version of the installer from here and run it, choosing the location of your previous calibre Portable install. Previous releases of calibre are available here.