

Ĭalibre allows users to sort and group e-books by metadata fields. Calibre does not natively support DRM removal, but may allow DRM removal after installing plug-ins with such a function. Conversion and editing are easily applied to appropriately licensed digital books, but commercially purchased e-books may need to have digital rights management (DRM) restrictions removed. Most e-book formats can be edited, for example, by changing the font, font size, margins, and metadata, and by adding an auto-generated table of contents. Features Ĭalibre supports many file formats and reading devices. In 2008, the program, for which a graphical user interface was developed, was renamed "calibre", displayed in all lowercase. With support from the MobileRead forums, Goyal reverse-engineered the proprietary Broad Band eBook ( BBeB) file format.

epub to whatever e-reader app(s) you prefer, if not Calibre / Kindle (or wherever you bought the book).On 31 October 2006, when Sony introduced its PRS-500 e-reader, Kovid Goyal started developing libprs500, aiming mainly to enable use of the PRS-500 formats on Linux. Copy identifier from Calibre, and add a new record in Zotero by pasting the identifier.Ĥ. It's File Stream, so available to me everywhere now).ģ. Import book to Caliber and export EPUB and PDF (this brings the Kindle files into `readings/Calibre Library`, and also saves. Workflow for a new book resource from Amazon Kindle:Ģ. Within this folder is a subdirectory `readings/Calibre Library/` which, not suprisingly, is my Calibre library. This is the root directory in Zotero (I do not sync resources using Zotero). In my Google Drive, I have a directory called `readings/`. I got the Remarkable to mess around with it, so I might see if I can mount my Google Drive on it or sync it to a local directory on the tablet. I'm not yet sure if I prefer this, but playing with it for now.

easily being able to mark things up on that device is nice. This breaks the beauty of the single-copy setup that I was using before but. On my phone, I just have to use the remarkable app to create a copy of a book / document and send it to remarkable. The Remakable is new, and adds a bit of a wrinkle to the workflow, but it's not awful. I read on my computer, phone, ipad, and remarkable tablet. Google Drive File Stream allows everything to work pretty seamlessly across devices, and between apps. Zotero is the database of all source texts, notes, citations, etc. de-drm them, and produce an EPUB and PDF of every digital book I own). The workflow is pretty clean, but requires a little effort.Ĭalibre for books (specifically it's really just in here to standardize things - ie. I use both, but use Zotero as my main management app.
