Add to this Calibre's ability to process otherwise incompatible files for your Kindle. Keep your own custom fields (for example, a Boolean have-read) and keep books of a single series together. You can use Calibre to automatically download covers and metadata. Before we start tweaking Calibre, it's a good thing to compare these applications with Calibre.Ĭalibre is a powerful library management tool. These applications let you manage your eBook library on your favourite device, but also to continue reading exactly where you left off.

As you may know, Amazon has Kindle applications for multiple platforms. Kindle isn't without cross-platform compatibility.

Whether you're just installing Calibre for the first time, or it's already filled with incompatible EPUB files (like mine was), below are some tips to optimise Calibre for use with your Kindle. For those users just getting started with Calibre, but also for proficient users aiming to maximise Calibre's potentials, check out MakeUseOf's Guide To Calibre eBook Manager. A bit on the heavy side, but this eBook management suite is incredibly powerful and always easy to use. However, buying books from other eBook stores, or synchronising with your pre-Kindle eBook library still isn't as easy as it should be.īefore Kindle, I fell in love with Calibre. Buying books online and getting them on your device is as easy as ever. Much of that is simplified if you chose Amazon's Kindle as your partner in crime. The biggest problem is that, closed off as these devices often times are, it requires unreasonable effort to move books between different devices. It's a special kind of freedom that tastes particularly sweet.īut an eReader is not all fun and games. You can take that half dozen or few hundred books with you, on the train or abroad.

Although there are still aesthetic pleasures to be had from a good old-fashioned library, hundreds of books on your eReader requires just as much physical space as half a dozen. In the past, an extensive library required lots of shelf space and - if you were traveling - a seriously heavy suitcase.

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