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  • The capabilities of the “Edit Metadata” tool have been expanded:
  • Fixed an error when launching on Windows systems, where the home directory name is in an encoding different from the system one.
  • Fixed vertical text overlap for some systems/font sizes

Caliber 2.81.0

  • Added support for KFX format files
  • Added drag-and-drop functionality for images and styles when creating e-books
  • Added update option for Kobo driver
  • Expanded spell checking capabilities
  • Added the ability to hide/show toolbars using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + F11)
  • Fixed problems when exporting to PDF format
  • The problem with email clients filtering notification emails from Caliber has been resolved.
  • Updated Virualo store plugins
  • Fixed the program freezing when opening books with incorrect content (lack of certain images, styles and fonts)
  • Improved compatibility with news sources The Atlantic and The Financial Times

Caliber 2.79.0

  • Recently viewed books appear in the Jump List
  • Improved EPUB format conversion

Caliber 2.77.0

  • Fixed cover image conversion issues
  • Upgraded DOCX conversion tool
  • Updated functions for downloading metadata from Amazon

Caliber 2.72.0

  • Added automatic attachment of fonts if they differ in characteristics from the generally accepted ones (character weight (Extra Bold), shadow, light, etc.)
  • This version implements the ability to interrupt the library copying process
  • Improved and expanded spell checking capabilities

Caliber 2.68.0

  • Improved work with library servers
  • Improved reading of metadata of PDF files

Caliber 2.54.0

  • Improved usability of the search function
  • More convenient visual distribution of books in the program explorer
  • Added Screenlight driver support
  • Improved work with PDF format

Caliber 2.53.0

  • Expanded options for inserting tooltips and footnotes
  • Added the ability to configure mouse wheel settings for more convenient scrolling
  • Improved ability to convert DOCX to eBook formats
  • Text formatting tools have been improved, changes have been made to work with the “automatic addition of tags” function
  • Significantly expanded collaboration with Kobo
  • New fonts available with anti-aliasing capabilities
  • Improved image compression algorithm

Although you can find almost any book on the Internet in the most common formats (EPub, FB2, Mobi), we still periodically encounter the problem of converting one format to another. In addition, managing the library is much more convenient on a computer than in a reader. There are many reasons for this. Ease of interface, file processing speed, device capacity. Even if your device can accommodate thousands of books, the indexing speed of such a library will still be lower than on a regular computer. And searching for the book you need in the reader will not be so convenient. It is better to store the library on the computer, and send several books to the reader that are in at the moment you are reading. And here special programs come to the rescue. Let's look at one of these programs today - Caliber.

The program is free, which is undoubtedly one of the advantages. In addition, it is easy to install and has a convenient Russified interface. To download the program, go to its official website http://calibre-ebook.com/ and click on the “DOWNLOAD CALIBRE” button

We select the required system on which we will install the program.

In the window that opens, select download the latest version of the program – Download caliber...

Find the downloaded installer file “calibre-x.x.x.msi” on the computer (usually in the “My Documents/Downloads” folder) and launch it by double-clicking the mouse. Number x.x.x. changes as new versions are released.

We read the license agreement, agree to it and continue with the installation. When finished, launch the program by clicking the “Finish” button.

The program setup wizard will open. At the first step, you can select the installation language and the folder to store the library.

If you have selected a Kindle for your device, then you can skip the next step - in fact, it duplicates sending books to the Kindle via email. Just click the "Next" button.

All. At this point, setting up the program is complete - you can proceed to use. Click the "Finish" button to start the program.

The main program window will open.

If you already have books saved on your computer, you can add them to the Caliber library. Click the “Add Books” button and select the books that you want to add to the library.

Or click the arrow next to the “Add books” button and select search and add books from the specified folder. At the same time, if filters for book formats are not configured, then all documents from this folder that can only be read will be added.

This button can also be used to automatically add books to the library. To do this, select the bottommost item “Configure adding books” in the drop-down list and select the “Automatic adding” tab.

Next, we indicate the folder in which the books will be stored, click the apply button and restart Caliber. Now we can immediately download files from the Internet into this folder and they will appear in the Caliber library. Now we have a library, and we can view it as convenient for us - by authors, languages, series, formats, etc.

By double-clicking on the title of a book in the library, you can read it using the built-in reader. But we are interested in using the program in conjunction with our electronic reading device, so let’s move on to the next step - connecting the reader to the computer. Having connected our device to the computer using a USB cable, we will see that in the top menu we have two additional buttons “Send to device” and “Device”

By clicking on the “Device” button we will see the contents of our reader and will be able to copy books from it to the Caliber library. If we want to copy a book from the library to the reader, then we go to the library again by clicking the “Library” button. We select the book or books that we want to send to the reader and click the “Send to device” button (moreover, if the device has a memory card, then you can select the storage location for the book - in the main memory or on the memory card).

At the bottom of the program window you can track the progress of the task:

If for some reason we could not find a book in a format supported by our device, then we can use Caliber to convert it to the format we need, and this is done, as they say, “on the fly” - i.e. simultaneously with sending the book to the device. We also select a book from the library and send it to the device. The program will automatically convert it into the required format and load it into the reader (of course, this does not apply to formats such as PDF and DjVu). After this, you can safely disconnect the device from the computer by selecting the “Remove device” menu item.

Of course, this is not all that this wonderful program is capable of. This article describes only the basic steps with Caliber program, which you may need to comfortably manage your library and convert files from one format to another. You can continue to explore all its capabilities on your own and get the maximum benefit from its use. Thank you for your attention! Good books to you and happy reading!

Caliber is a free program with a wide range of capabilities designed to work with e-books in various formats. The program can be used both for reading and as a converter; it is also ideal for creating and managing a collection of books in electronic form.

Features and capabilities of Caliber

  • Own database with information about books (author, title, cover, tags, release date, series, publisher, etc.);
  • Obtaining information about a book via the Internet using ISBN;
  • E-book – application for reading electronic books;
  • Built-in converter. Input formats supported: CBR, CBZ, CBC, EPUB, CHM, FB2, LIT, HTML, LRF, ODT, MOBI, PDB, PML, PDF, IRF, PRC, RTF, RB, TXT, TCR. Output formats: FB2, EPUB, LIT, MOBI, LRF, OEB, PDB, PML, RB, IRF, PDF, RTF, TXT, TCR;
  • Synchronization with e-book reading devices: Amazon, Apple, Android, Kobo, Onyx, PocketBook and others;
  • Automatically receive news from popular websites and news agencies: The Economist, New York Times, The Guardian, BBC News, National Geographic, Russian newspaper, Vedomosti, Echo of Moscow, Computerra, 3DNews, iXBT and others (selection of source is optional - sorting by country and language);
  • Access to the library from any mobile device (via browser);
  • Work offline;
  • Support for plugins that extend the capabilities of Caliber;
  • Command line control;
  • Hotkey support;
  • Availability of a portable version - ;
  • Multilingual localization - more than 40 language packs, including Russian and Ukrainian.

Download Caliber

The latest version of Caliber for operating systems Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista (32 and 64-bit) is available for download on our website.

Download Caliber for free, without registration.

Spoiler (Download Caliber for Windows XP)

Please note that the latest version of Caliber is not compatible with Windows XP, so to work with the program in this environment operating system The developer recommends using version 1.48 (compatible with all versions of Windows XP 32 and 64-bit):

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Caliber is a free program with a wide range of capabilities designed to work with e-books in various formats.

Version: Caliber 3.47.1

Size: 61 / 66.7 MB

Operating system: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista

Language: Russian

Program status: Free

Developer: Kovid Goyal

What's new in version: list of changes

Since I am a big fan of reading, at what point my gaze fell on e-books. The benefits were obvious to me. Especially with frequent business trips. Weight, size, convenience, and price electronic versions books (I prefer honest purchase of texts). After using several copies, I settled on the Sony PRS-505. At first I was confused by the lrf format, but a solution was quickly found - online fb2 to lrf converters. Online - because I am a Linux user both at home and at work, plus I use WinXP for games at home. In general, complete confusion. But when I started looking for books in English, I came across a bunch of other formats from pdf to epub and even more exotic options. Plus there are a lot of books on computers and it has become difficult to understand them (I’m not the only eBook user in the family). In general, there is a need for some kind of management of this chaos and convenient conversion of formats, plus native support for Linux. In one of the comments on Habré I saw a mention of Caliber. I downloaded it, installed it and liked it. Now I use it completely. Therefore I would like to do brief overview of this program.

About the program and its capabilities

Caliber is a free, cross-platform, open source application designed for e-book users with a lot of features.
  • Library management.
    Caliber provides the ability to manage your book collection. The concept of the program is that many identical books in different formats are presented as one book in the library.
    You can sort and search books by metadata such as: title, author, publication date, date added, size, book series, rating, etc. There is also support for tags and comments and reviews.
    You can easily find the book you need using a simple search or use the advanced search.
    The program organizes the books you add into a clear hierarchical structure folders on your hard drive, so even without the program you can sort through your library.
    Plus caliber can search online book metadata and covers by title/author or ISBN. The metadata search system is determined by plugins and can easily be expanded independently (with literature in English it searches with a bang)
  • Book converter
    Caliber supports converting from a bunch of formats to a bunch of others.
    Input Formats: CBZ, CBR, CBC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT
    Output Formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, TCR, TXT
    Converting has many options, such as changing the font size, creating a book structure and footnotes, etc.
  • Synchronization with readers
    Caliber uses a modular reader driver system that allows you to add new devices. Now the program already supports many devices. When synchronizing, Caliber itself selects the most suitable format or, if the required one is not available, converts it to the required one. It also adds all the necessary metadata and information about book series to the reader.
  • Downloading news and converting it into a book
    Caliber already contains 3 hundred news sources. And after reading the manual, it will not be difficult for you to add new sources
  • Built-in book reader
    Caliber contains built-in readers for all supported book formats.
  • Web content server
    Caliber contains a built-in web server for remote library management. She can also download and send books to you by email.
A demo of using Caliber can be viewed.

Installation

For Windows, everything is simple - we take the distribution kit and install it.
For Mac.
For Linux, look in the repositories of your distribution, you will most likely find it.
If you are using something less common (in Archa, for example, it is only available in AUR) or we want to have the latest version, then we run the script
sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen("http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer").read(); main()"

Or we take the sources and follow the instructions
http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

When you launch it for the first time, we configure the program using the wizard.
Select the language and library location. Next, select the model of our reader. And the installation is complete. We can enjoy work.

Experience of use

When I started working with this library manager, the first thing I did was throw my entire collection there. It didn't take much time, since everything was in one folder, which had something similar to order, but not perfect. Having chosen to add all the books from this folder, Caliber scanned its contents and transferred it to its library, sorting everything neatly into folders.




From now on it will be a pleasure to use. I really liked the conversion of books into the format I needed and the downloading of information about books by ISBN. I had some of the books on fb2 and there were already some descriptions of the books. I tidied this up a little and checked the book series and the consistency of the spelling of the authors' names, I connected my Sony reader and instructed to put all the books on the reader card. Caliber itself converted all the books into lrf and carefully placed them on the reader’s memory card.


I also really liked the built-in content server. At work, the computer is constantly connected to the Internet and has a white address, then my main library became there. It’s convenient because I download books at work and throw them in single library. If I have the reader with me, I’ll sync it right away. Or I download it from my library at home and synchronize it with my home library. But the most convenient thing is when you go somewhere in the city or on a business trip and forget the reader, you can go on your phone and download the book you need to finish reading even on your mobile. Or it’s convenient to share a book with a friend.


For books in English, the program finds all the metadata and cover with a bang, with Russian ones it’s more difficult. I didn’t test the news download function deeply as it was particularly unnecessary. But at first glance it is quite convenient.

Conclusion

Having started looking for a book format converter for Linux, I eventually found an excellent library manager, which I now use on all my computers under different OSes and finally got my library in order. No major bugs were noticed and the program does not cause any complaints. Therefore, I would like to express my gratitude to its creator Kovid Goyal and recommend it to all e-book owners and reading fans.

Caliber is a program for Windows, Mac and Linux that has absolutely all the tools for working with books. This is not just “another e-reader.” Caliber allows you to convert books to different formats, use your computer as a cloud library and have access to all the largest online libraries.

And, of course, in addition to everything else, Caliber is still “another e-reader.”

When you first launch Caliber, it will offer to use your computer as a cloud library for mobile devices. The function is very interesting and allows you to connect from your gadget to your computer and download from it all the books that you have selected in advance. Unfortunately, this feature only works with iOS devices that have the Marvin reader installed, which we already did.

Caliber's search includes resources such as Litres, Google Books, Amazon, Biblio, and dozens of others. However, no one is stopping you from downloading your books yourself and then uploading them to Caliber.

A separate advantage was the conversion function. The program supports more than 15 formats and allows you to customize every little detail during conversion. For me, as a person who often converts PDF books to EPUB or FB2, this turned out to be very useful. Because in other programs the layout is very confusing.

Caliber is the ultimate tool for working with books. I don't think I can think of a single competitor. If you often download books from your computer, convert them, or read them, then you should definitely try it.
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