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Calibre is a cross platform eBook management application that has many functions including an inbuilt eBook reader.
Specs
Pros
Pro Powerful book management software, very customizable and scriptable
Features include metadata editing and downloading, coverpage downloading., book tagging and categorization, webpage-to-ebook converter for popular websites, etc. Lots of plugins available to extend functionality.
Pro Supports a multitude of formats
Calibres in built eBook reader supports a huge assortment of formats making for one of the best universal eBook readers available today.
Pro Downloads book meta data from online
It downloads book cover, author, title, ratings, and other meta information online.
Pro Portable
Calibre has an optional portable build that can be stored on external media along with the users library. I t can then be opened from the external media on any windows device.
Pro It is possible to copy text from Calibre to a word processor if you are using ebooks for research
Pro Downloads News Articles from various sources by doing webpage crawl
You can schedule the downloading's of news articles. If you are fond on knowing headline news, you would like it.
Cons
Con Calibre will duplicate your .pdf and other formats to get a database from them
Even with hundreds of .pdf ebooks, Calibre took a lot of hard disk space before showing the ebooks.
Con Average, non-power users might find the interface somewhat daunting
The interface, while functional is not the most attractive or intuitive which may put some people off and discourage their use.
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Con Calibre will duplicate your .pdf and other formats to get a database from them.
I have hundreds of .pdf ebooks and Calibre took A LOT OF hard disk space before show me my ebooks.
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