Completing the wizard brings up the main window (Figure 1). You will be greeted with a first-start wizard, which asks you questions like which ebook reader you are using (if any) and where you want the library to reside. Start Calibre from the OS applications menu or by typing calibre in the run-command dialogue box or even in the terminal. Manually perform a binary installation using the following command:.Use the package provided by your distribution - not recommended, since it may not be updated regularly.
If you’re a Linux user, there are two ways (both listed on the download page link on Calibre’s website). If you are a Windows or a Mac user, it is a simple download-double-click-install process. It syncs up with almost all the popular ebook readers out there - and the cherry on the cake is that it can double up as a content-management server, allowing you to share your collection on your local network via a Web interface! Installing Calibre A cross-platform tool (yes, it does Windows and Mac too, besides Linux), it lets you manage ebooks of almost any format under the sun. Add to it the cool convenience of ebook readers like the Kindle and the Nook, and you find yourself hoarding ebooks too! The question now arises: is there a (FOSS) way to manage all my ebooks? The answer is, “Yes, there is.”Ĭalibre is really neat. Just when we thought the worst was behind us, good ol’ Murphy paid us another visit… and lo and behold, ebooks in volumes arrived. As data grows, it is only its swift management that keeps us from going mad and pulling our hair out, as those ones and zeroes flow in torrential fury.
HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer) Operating Systems like MoviX or their software suite counterparts like XBMC (the XBox Media Center) allow management of not just music, but your videos, TV shows and online radio too. That called for some serious media file management - what we now so effortlessly do (most of the time) using Rhythmbox, Amarok or iTunes (if you’re an Apple fan). Then came the Internet and the Napster era - MP3 files flowed in the thousands. It all began when personal computing became affordable and all of us got to play with these virtual packets of data called files. Some of us have loads of music and some of us have loads of movies. Bibliomania doesn’t get better than this! Read on as I walk you through this cool utility. Kovid Goyal’s “Calibre E-book Management” is a seamless cross-platform library-management tool for ebooks of almost any format under the sun.