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welcome to calibre's blog
Welcome to calibre's blog on tips and tricks, that make calibre an indispensable tool to all you enthusiastic ebook users. This blog will have regular (of the order of weekly) posts on various obscure...
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the calibre viewer
Today we explore the many features of calibres ebook viewer. calibre's ebook viewer allows you to view ebooks in all of the 22 input formats that calibre supports conversion from. These include CBZ,...
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all about "Get Books"
"Get Books" allows you to search for ebooks online, that you can thenpurchase/download to your calibre library. It can simultaneously search over 40 different online stores for books by title and...
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Custom news fetching
The "Fetch News" feature in calibre is very powerful and versatile. It has over a 1000 built in news recipes, spanning over 30 languages and 50 countries, for websites of newspapers, magazines and...
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ebook format conversion
A lot of you have used calibre to convert your ebooks between different formats. The calibre conversion system is very sophisticated and has many subtleties. Today I will discuss just a few features...
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calibre's tag browser
The calibre tag browser is a versatile and powerful tool with some obvious and many obscure but extremely useful features. Today I will discuss some of these features. The figure on the left below...
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calibre resources
calibre is a free and open source community driven project. The software has many layers. The most commonly used functions like format conversion, metadata editing, news fetching etc have big clear...
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Dear Blog Readers,I am sorry but Kovid and I moved into our own apartment this week in India, so we have been very busy setting it up. I regret to say there will be no blog post this week. I will try...
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calibre plugins: duplicate finder
The next few posts will deal with some of the more useful plugins in calibre. Functionality can be added to calibre via little code snippets called "plugins". The Calibre application itself comes with...
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plugins continued ...
The last blog post talked about plugins in general and illustrated the workings of the duplicate finder plugin in detail. Today I will point out a few other useful plugins. To obtain these plugins...
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calibre custom columns
The main calibre window has a default set of columns that most people find useful in organising their ebook collection. These include Title, Author, Date, Size (of file in MB), Ratings, Tags , Series,...
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calibre look and feel
calibre allows you to customize its Graphical User Interface (GUI) in many different ways so that you can have a GUI that suits your particular needs and tastes. In this blog post I will point out some...
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calibre portable: A great holiday gift
For a very long time calibre was tied up to the computer on which it was installed. Although the calibre content server allowed for access to the calibre library through a browser, it still required...
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calibre 0.9.0 is here!
The long awaited calibre 0.9.0 is here! This is the link to the page documenting all the improvements since 0.8.0.Some of the important improvements I will discuss here at length are:Improved support...
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this is the way to polish your e-books
HiIt has been a while but again calibre has some great new features. So let us take a look at them. Here I will discuss "Polish Ebooks" introduced in 0.9.23 and next time "Edit TOC" introduced in...
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magic with TOC: edit or create a TOC for your documents or ebooks
Hope you enjoyed polishing and shining your e-books. Now let's look at more heavy duty stuff. The last post already detailed how you can get the "Edit TOC" button on the main toolbar. It is the...
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ebooks of web content and virtual libraries
This blog post will discuss a class of plugins that allow you to make ebooks of content from the web, like chosen Wikipedia pages and recipe pages from sites like cooks.com, bigoven.com, foodnetwork...
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Here it is calibre 1.0 in all it's glory
calibre 1.0 has just been released. It took us only 7 years to get here ;). Yes, we are only a little more than 2 months away from calibre's 7th birthday. This is a big moment, so allow us to indulge...
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calibre's ebook editor
calibre has been an excellent ebook managing and viewing software for sometime now. But we intend to live up to our slogan, making calibre the "one stop solution to all your ebook needs". To this end...
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Announcing calibre 2.0
It has been about a year from our last big release, so it is time for another one. calibre 2.0 was released today.Since calibre 1.0 most of the development has focused on the e-book editor. calibre...
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