A free e-book library and reader application with full search engine for free e-books as well as purchased ones like from Amazon.
There's little in the way of quality freeware applications which can create a library and provide a reader for e-books. That all changes with calibre, a free and open source library management and conversion utility for e-book collections.
Calibre is a free e-book manager which can be compared to a program like iTunes, but for e-books. It can connect to your reader device and can convert between various different e-book formats.
Along with the ability to convert between popular formats, Calibre can also manage your library and sorts them neatly.
Overall, this is an excellent all-round e-book tool which provides many of the functions which are requested by users of different devices.
Features of Calibre
- Content Server: Share your e-book library over the Internet.
- Conversion: Convert e-books from one format to another.
- Downloading: Download news from the web and convert it into e-book form.
- E-book Viewer: Read and edit e-books in a variety of formats.
- E-mail: Send e-books to your Kindle or other device via e-mail.
- Editing: Edit e-book metadata and create e-books from scratch.
- Fetching: Fetch metadata and covers for e-books from online sources.
- Library Management: Easily organize, search and browse your e-book collection.
- News Feeds: Subscribe to news sources and automatically download news.
- Plugin System: Extend Calibre's functionality with plugins.
- Scheduling: Automate tasks such as conversion and fetching.
- Syncing: Synchronize e-books with a variety of devices.
- Tagging: Tag e-books with multiple categories and search across them.
- Virtual Library: Create virtual e-book libraries to organize collections.
Compatibility and License
Calibre is a free application released under the GPLv3 license on Windows from PDF software. With software released under the open source GPLv3 license, anybody can download, install, run and distribute the software with little in terms of restrictions. The latest version we have is 7.8.0 and is available to download here.
What version of Windows can Calibre run on?
Calibre can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It's only available as a 64-bit download.
Other operating systems: The latest Calibre version from 2024 is also available for Mac.
Filed under:
- Calibre Download
- Free PDF Software
- Open source and GPL software
- E-book Management Software
