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Calibre is a cross platform eBook management application that has many functions including an inbuilt eBook reader.
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PlatformsWindows, MacOS, Linux
LicenseGPL-3.0-only
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 It is possible to copy text from Calibre to a word processor if you are using ebooks for research
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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.