Download caliber Russian version for android. Caliber is a program for converting, searching and storing e-books

Download Caliber for free via a direct link from the official website in Russian for any Windows XP, 7, 8, 10. The Caliber program will help you read e-books.

A special free manager for e-books, which provide very wide opportunities for organizing your own library. Caliber also offers to convert types of e-books to others, so with the help of the Caliber utility, you can convert files such as RTF, ODT, PRF, HTML and other formats used by devices for reading books.

With the help of Caliber, reading books is not a problem, even editing them and setting up covers. It is possible to import files among themselves, between connected devices and at the same time perform a range of other, no less convenient and interesting operations. The utility supports all known and popular formats for reading e-books, knows how to work with each of them, supports additional text readers, including Amazon Kindle and standard utilities on the Android platform.

Benefits of Caliber:
- Support for a wide range of formats, including FB2, TXT, HTML, CBR, CBZ, EPub, IMP, LIT, MOBI, ODT, OPF, PDF, TPZ, SNB, RTF and others;
- View e-books straight from archives in and 7z formats;
- Application E-book viewer as a built-in application for reading books directly in the Calibri utility;
- Correct display of the database with book titles, authors, release date, cover and publishers;
- Ability to set labels and ratings of works;
- The program's capabilities can be extended through special plug-ins for Caliber;
- High-quality Internet connection for more information. This is done with the help of ISBN;
- Ability to connect to an online library created by the user.

You can download Caliber in Russian from the link above. The program has a really interesting and convenient set of features that will greatly help readers in their reading business.

About the program and its features

• Library management.
  Caliber gives you the ability to manage your book collection. The concept of the program is a lot of identical books in different formats 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 required book with 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 that even if you don't have the program, you can sort through your library.
  Plus caliber can search the web for book metadata and cover art by title/author or ISBN. The metadata search system is defined by plugins and can be easily extended 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
  The conversion has many options, such as changing the font size, creating the structure of the book 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 chooses the most suitable format by itself, or if there is no necessary one, it converts it to the required one. It also adds all the necessary metadata and information about book series to the reader.
• Download news and convert it into a book
  Caliber contains already 3 hundreds of 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 programs for reading all supported book formats.
• Content Web Server
  Caliber contains a built-in web server for remote library management. It can also download and email books to you.

Installation

Or we take the source and act according to the instructions
http://caliber-ebook.com/download_linux

At the first start, we configure the program using the wizard.
Select the language, the location of the library. Next, select the model of our reader. And the installation is complete. We can enjoy our work.

User Experience

Conclusion

The Caliber program is designed to work with electronic books. With Caliber you can convert electronic documents from one format to another, create a library and store books in it, search, view electronic documents, copy electronic books to mobile devices.

The free Caliber e-book management software supports Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. The developer of the Caliber program is Covid Goyal.

You can download the Caliber program from the official website of the program. The program works in Russian.

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Installing the program on your computer will not cause you any difficulties. When installing the program, you must select a location for the library of electronic books.

The disk to be selected for the library must have sufficient free space. A large library of e-books can take up quite a lot of disk space. This must be taken into account when choosing a location for your library.

After completing the installation of the program on your computer, you should proceed to the settings and use of the Caliber program.

How to use Caliber

After launching the Caliber program, the Caliber window opens. At the top of the program window there is a menu with buttons for managing the program.

Work with Caliber program starts with the Add Books button. Books should be added to the program to create an electronic library, and to start using the program.

Below the menu bar is the "Search" field for quickly searching for books in the library. After entering the name of the work, you will need to click on the "Start!" button, or in another way, press the "Enter" button on the keyboard. Next to the search field, there is a button to reset the quick search.

E-books can be added to the library one by one by selecting individual e-books in the Explorer window that opens.

If you click the arrow next to the Add Books button, you can select the desired option for adding books to the library from the context menu.

Caliber can be configured to automatically add e-books to the library you create.

The main mode of adding books to the library is the group adding of books from selected directories. The program will copy the books and the selected e-books will be added to the library.

Books added to the library will be displayed as a list. For each book added to the library, you can view its data - "Title", "Author(s)", "Date" added to the library, "Size (MB)", "Rating", "Tags", "Series".

E-books added to the library are copied from their original location.

After starting the program, you will see that one book has already been added to the library - instructions for using the Caliber program on English language.

After I added the e-book to the library, it got into the list of books in the library. Information about the added e-book is displayed in the right side field. It displays the cover image (if there is one), the book's format, series, tags, the book's location in the library, and a short description (if it already exists).

The next Edit Metadata button allows you to organize your use of the library using tags. E-books are assigned certain tags, such as by genre, for easier use of the library.

You can add tags to books that do not have them yourself, or edit tags already assigned to books.

To edit the metadata of a book, right-click on the book and select the desired option from the context menu - "Edit metadata" => "Edit metadata individually".

After that, the "Edit Metadata" window will open, for editing the metadata of the selected e-book. In this window, you can change the metadata of the e-book, add new tags, remove existing ones, add your description to the book, or leave your comment.

Using the "Previous" and "Next" buttons at the bottom of the window, you can navigate between the books that have been added to the library. After changing the metadata, you need to click on the "OK" button.

When you right-click on a book, a context menu opens. Using the context menu, you can perform certain actions with the book, for example, remove the book from the library.

In Caliber, you can view books added to your library. To do this, click on the "View" button. After that, the window of the E-book Viewer program, which is installed with the Caliber program, will open.

"Ebook Viewer" allows you to view or read books from the library. On the vertical right panel there are buttons for managing the "E-book Viewer", with which you can manage this process.

The viewer program does not open books of all formats that are supported by the Caliber program. Formats not supported by the viewer are opened using programs installed on your operating system to view files of a specific format.

Converter Caliber

The Caliber program has the ability to convert e-books into various formats for further viewing on devices for reading books.

Caliber supports the following input formats for conversion:

• CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, PDB, PDF, PML, PRC, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT.

Output formats in which files are saved after conversion:

• EPUB, FB2, OEB, PDB, PDF, PML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT.

To convert an e-book, if it is not in the library, in the main window of the Caliber program, you need to click on the "Add Books" button. Then you should select the book or books that will need to be converted to another format.

In this example, the book "Vasco da Gama" from the series "Life of Remarkable People" will be converted. Next, you need to click on the "Convert Books" button.

In the "Convert" window, you must select "Output Format", in this example - the format "EPUB". In this window, you can make your own additional settings, in particular, if necessary, change the metadata of the book. Then you should click on the "OK" button.

After that, the process of converting the book to another format begins. You can see this process in the background in the lower right corner of the Caliber program.

The e-book "Vasco da Gama", in "FB2" format, has been converted to "EPUB" format. You can open the book in the eBook Viewer by clicking on the "EPUB" link in the "Formats" section.

"E-Book Viewer" opened an e-book converted to a new format.

To view a book, if the book has been converted to different formats, Caliber will display the information as one book. To view the book in the desired format, you will need to select the desired format.

The Caliber program supports PDF and DjVu conversion, but most likely it will not be possible to convert files of these formats. Only very small files can be successfully converted.

Other Settings in Caliber

With the Caliber program, you can buy and download e-books using the web server built into the program.

To do this, click on the "Download Books" button. In the “Download books” window that opens, you will need to enter some data about the required book: title, author or keywords, and then click on the “Search” button.

After that, a search will be carried out for stores from the list in the left column of the program window. Based on the results of the search, you should select the desired book and click on it. Next, you will be redirected to the store's website to purchase the selected book.

The Caliber program allows you to download news feeds. To do this, click on the "Collect News" button. The Scheduled News Download window opens, in which you need to select news sources in Russian.

After selecting a news source, you will need to set up a schedule for downloading information using Caliber. The information will be downloaded and stored in the program, in the form of an e-book.

After connecting an external device to the computer, two new buttons will appear in the Caliber program: "Send to Device" and "Device". These buttons transfer e-books to book readers or other mobile devices.

Article Conclusions

The Caliber program allows you to create a library for storing e-books, convert books to other formats, and transfer e-books from the library to mobile devices designed for reading e-books.

Part 1: Library Management, Book Reading, Library Sharing

The e-book market meets the demand of a very demanding consumer. What is even more pleasant, these devices are becoming more affordable and technologically advanced. However, along with support for many document formats, functional e-book software is missing. As a result, the user is content with limited out-of-the-box tools.

One of the most pressing issues is the creation of an electronic library on a computer, followed by synchronization via USB or wireless connection. Equally important is the export of books in a format suitable for reading on the device. With such tasks, the Caliber program will help you cope.

Actually, format incompatibility, software and operating systems and served as the impetus for the development of Caliber in 2006. Kovid Goyal, the author of the project, has created an LRF book converter that is relevant for Sony Reader. Since then, the program has acquired many features and runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux (the review will consider the version for Windows). The main features of the program are revealed in the following areas:

• Library management
  The program allows you to store books of various formats, combine them into collections, edit metadata (information about the author, publisher, etc.), search for information on the library, perform operations with files, such as import, export, delete.
• Reading books
  Caliber can be used to read or preview books in CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, DJVU, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB formats , TCR, TXT, TXTZ, with easy navigation and page display settings.
• web server
  The back end of Caliber is one of the most interesting features, thanks to which users can access the digital library through a browser. The web shell is necessary when working with a number of devices over a wireless connection, as well as for organizing access to the library over a local network or via the Internet.
• Collecting and saving news from Internet sources
  At first glance, this feature is purely RSS aggregators. In the case of Caliber, it is possible to create a file from RSS feed news for reading on an electronic device, including on a schedule.
• Device sync
  Caliber supports all kinds of devices from well-known vendors and allows you to download books different ways: Via internet, LAN, or directly when connected via USB cable.
• Converting e-book formats
  The program has a powerful converter that works with popular file formats (see above) and exports to AZW3, EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, HTMLZ, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, RTF, SNB, TCR , TXT, TXTZ. Thanks to this, the book is easy to save in the desired format and immediately send it to your device or send it by email.
• Plugin support
  It is important that Caliber supports extensions. Thanks to this, users have the opportunity to improve the functionality of the program by enabling this or that option freelance, through the plug-in. If desired, you can write your own add-on corresponding to the developer's site.

Documentation is only available in English, and not all key features have been explored in the numerous Caliber reviews. At the same time, it cannot be said that a news aggregator or a web server is of less interest than a book converter. Therefore, it makes sense to consider in detail the tools of the program.

First launch of Caliber

At the first stage, the Calibri setup wizard offers to choose a place to store books, as well as localization. The list contains Russian, but the translation is poor quality. For this reason, during the acquaintance with the program, there are moments of misunderstanding. Although, for the most part, the translation is acceptable.

The second step is to select a device to sync with Calibri. An impressive number of devices from such manufacturers are supported: Amazon, Android, Apple, Barnes & Noble, SONY (see screenshot). If the device is not listed, you can select a generic profile (Generic).

According to the choice, access to some options and additional information is opened. For example, in order to synchronize with applications on iOS, it may be necessary to configure the Caliber virtual server in the future (see the corresponding chapter of the review), which will be reported. In the case of Kindle, if books are sent via the Internet, you can specify the recipient's email address.

After closing the dialog, the program starts. A few words need to be said about the interface. The fact is that most of the comments of users are not related to the functional, but to the visual side of the program. The Caliber shell uses a cross-platform library, as a result of which the "non-native" interface is somewhat out of the general style of Windows. A more significant drawback is not always smooth scrolling of lists and opening dialogs, slow responsiveness in general.

However, these “roughnesses” are fully compensated by the functionality of Caliber and cross-platform in particular: here you can recall the supported devices and OS, between which import, export and synchronization are possible.

The Caliber toolbar has a clear delineation of functions, all actions are grouped and placed as buttons on the Actions panel at the top of the window. Full screen mode allows you to see all available commands on the panel, but in a more compact mode, one bar is not enough.

Icons can be scaled down, and button placement is customizable via the Toolbar section. Modifications also lend themselves to context menus, columns and other interface elements.

Library Management

The main window of the program is represented by the library, which is the core of the program and its main tool. In the left pane, you can filter by attributes and search (tag browser). The central column is reserved for the list of books. On the right - information on the selected list item, taken from the metadata of the book. Switching modes are available at the bottom of the window, where you can additionally hide one of the side panels or switch the book display mode - in the form of covers or a grid. Thanks to this, the panels are flexibly configured, making viewing books informative and convenient.

Initially, most of the columns in Caliber are activated: author, date, size, rating, etc. In order to change the established order, you need to use the context menu by clicking on any list heading, or drag the column heading to the desired location. Using the template language, you can create columns with your own data, including metadata ("Add custom column" option).

There are several ways to add books. The most obvious is the Add Books button on the toolbar. From the available options of the drop-down list - adding a book from one directory (option 1), adding taking into account subdirectories (option 2) or several (option 3) books per directory. You can also create an empty entry or add a book by number.

It has been noticed that to add a small number of books, it is enough to drag the books into the window, but adding folders and directories is possible only through the interface. Although you need to be careful, because as a result of illegible imports, you will have to deal with cleaning the list of unnecessary elements. It also makes sense to define a file ignore list in the Add Books menu, Automatic Add tab.

The second way to replenish the library is to search for and purchase books from public and commercial sources (the "Download Books" action). Caliber only provides a wrapper for searching by title, author, and keywords. The remaining functions (purchase, download) are available through the browser, after going to the site. The list of stores is customizable, by eliminating unnecessary elements, you can optimize your search.

Russian-language resources, with the exception of those placed at the end of the list, are clearly not enough. The available search in Russian does not cover the widest area: in fact, this is information from.

When you add a book, the files are automatically saved on your computer in subfolders sorted by the "Author" and "Title" attributes. There is no point in adding files to the Caliber directory yourself: they will be deleted.

Metadata is stored in a separate metadata.db file for each book, which is also convenient for moving the database, creating a backup, or, say, synchronizing with Dropbox or similar services. However, with Google Drive, at the time of writing, the . It's easy to import or export libraries to another computer - just move the book folder and specify it in the step-by-step setup wizard.

Thanks to virtual libraries, books can be organized into collections. The interface supports tabs ("Virtual Library - Show virtual libraries as tabs"), which makes managing a large library even more convenient. As a result, the necessary books will always be at hand and the search is not so in demand.

By the way, searching in several virtual libraries is not supported, it is carried out only in a common database. Otherwise, this feature is integrated into Caliber throughout. Above the central column, a quick search is available, it acts as a filter. Another way to view is the Quickview mode: by highlighting a value in a column and pressing Q, a list is available according to the selected criterion: for example, by author, publisher, genre.

Advanced search (button to the left) allows you to search by content as well as fields. It is allowed to use logical operators, regular expressions, tags in the input line. Requests can be saved for future use (use the field in the upper right corner).

Metadata editor

Experience with Caliber suggests that search is particularly effective when using metadata. The more information you have about a file, the more likely it is to be found quickly by the tag browser.

In the edit dialog, fields such as title, author, series, tags, text/HTML comment, and others are available. If there is an ISBN number of the book, the easiest way to get the necessary information is from the Internet using the data from isbndb.com, Amazon, Google Books services. In the settings, sources are preselected and fields for importing information are marked, the downloaded metadata can be checked against previous information.

In general, there are several things that come in handy when working with metadata. First, books can be edited in turn by selecting them in the list and pressing the edit button. When importing data from the Internet, it is enough to select files, select the command "Download metadata and covers" - all files will be processed in turn. The second point is that even in manual mode, many fields do not have to be filled in from scratch, it is enough to use drop-down lists in the fields. And, thirdly, the editor supports search and replace, as well as regular expressions.

Reading books in Caliber

The Caliber Viewer is available in a separate window by clicking the "View" button on the action bar. A file for reading can be selected both in the library window and directly through the application menu.

At the top is the navigation area, from where you can jump to a position in the text or by pointer. There is a text search. Navigating through the chapters is possible through the slide-out panel "Contents", the corresponding button is located to the left of the viewing area. It is possible to create bookmarks in the document. Reference mode allows you to find out the coordinates of a section of a paragraph in the form of a number when you hover the cursor over the text, then it is entered in the transition field by the pointer.

You can maximize the window to full size or switch to full screen mode. Pages are turned by means of keys or buttons on the panel. It is possible to switch to multi-threaded mode (without pagination), but for some reason it is impossible to switch to two-page display. There are also no other options that are quite obvious to the viewer: fit to the width or size of the window. Of the other "little things" that are familiar by their presence in e-books: there is no option to switch to "night" reading mode, you cannot leave notes in the book.

On the other hand, in this app for Caliber, there are many visual options available: choosing a typeface, adjusting the position of text on the page, colors, background, and flipping behavior. The display of pages is also controlled using easy-to-understand CSS syntax, you can add a style sheet in the "Custom Style Sheet" tab. On the Mobileread themed forum, there are ready-to-use examples that will be useful to all those who are not familiar with CSS syntax.

Perhaps the viewer's greatest strength is its support for multiple formats. However, reading PDF files is problematic due to the long opening, slow scrolling of content and incorrect display.

DJVU format files do not open even if the corresponding plug-in is present in Caliber, although they are perfectly recognized in .

Thus, in order to step over to a qualitatively new level, this application lacks several regular options and conflict-free recognition of at least DJVU and PDF formats.

Library Sharing

Sharing may be needed if the book needs to be transferred to another device (Kindle, Android, iOS) over a local network, over a wireless connection, or over the Internet. In the case of iOS, the server is needed to read books to applications such as Stanza or Marvin.

The server does not actually require any prior configuration. As a last resort, you should check your firewall or antivirus settings to see if the port being used by Caliber is being blocked. The network access configuration is located in the settings section of the same name. Here you can also set the username and password for connection. When organizing access to the library via the Internet, you need to configure port forwarding on the router.

To start the server, use the "Connect / Sharing - Start Content Server" command. As a result, the contents of the server are available at http://:8080/.

Each book has a permanent address and a description based on metadata. The user can navigate through the content: by virtual libraries, tags, publishers and other attributes, track new items. Search is supported - in earlier versions there were problems with Russian-language names, now they are not. Various display modes are provided, including those for mobile devices.

As you can see, the web server is quite simple, you can use it for personal purposes or share books with friends. For a “full-fledged” version of the server, at least access rights and advanced security settings are not enough. But this is clearly not a priority function of the program.

Another networking feature of Caliber is the distribution of e-books by email. For this, a mailing list is used. When sending, books can be converted in one or more specified formats, specified with a separator.

An application is provided for Android devices, with which you can create a wireless connection between Caliber and your phone.

Program interface: Russian

Platform:XP/7/Vista/8

Manufacturer: Kovid Goyal

Website: caliber-ebook.com

Caliber- a rather interesting utility for all fans of e-books, which has quite a few possibilities for organizing digital libraries, reading e-books and converting file formats among themselves.

The main features of the Caliber program

To begin with, we note that this software product is absolutely free and has no restrictions on use. In addition, the application is cross-platform and can run on completely different operating systems. And finally, the program is open source, so that, if desired, any user can change the program at their discretion or add something new to it.

As for the organization of the electronic library, it has a clear hierarchical structure. Moreover, after organizing e-books, in the absence of a program, you can still easily find the necessary file on your computer's hard drive. Enough interesting feature The organization of the files is also the fact that the same book in different formats is presented in the library structure as one book. In addition, the program supports quite an impressive number of e-book formats. These are CBZ, CBR, CBC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR and TXT. The most interesting thing is that the program easily allows you to convert formats among themselves. And, whatever. And, of course, the application also provides for the presence of a built-in "book reader".

A rather unusual feature of this utility is that it is able to prepare files for use on completely different mobile devices or readers. Moreover, when synchronizing with such devices, the program automatically selects the required format, and if it is not available, it converts it to the most suitable format for a specific type of device. Plus, the application is able to independently search the Internet for, say, book covers and upload metadata to digital libraries. In addition, there is support for news, which can be converted into a regular e-book. To date, more than three hundred news feeds are supported.

And finally, the application contains a web server for remote access and library management and allows you to send books using email accounts. In addition, the search system is quite interesting. For this, the title, author, date of publication, date of addition, size, series of books, rating and much more can be used. Also, there is support for tags, comments and reviews.

So, we can say that this application is quite universal, both in terms of reading and organizing electronic libraries, and in terms of converting various formats of electronic books to each other. Moreover, the program is an indispensable tool when synchronizing with different types of readers, because it automatically determines the required format for playback on a particular device. In general, performed on the "five plus".