Calibre is an open-source e-book library management application that lets you manage your book collection, convert them between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reading devices and read them with the included viewer.
You can sort your books by author, title, date, etc., download metadata and book covers, add tags and personal comments.
A highly accomplished freeware, it supports iPad and iPhone mobile devices (including e-book readers, those dedicated devices), lets you consult your library from the web and much more.
On startup, if you have an e-book reader, Calibre will offer to take it over to handle direct transfers and synchronization with your library.
Calibre recognizes many e-book readers. Information can be entered by hand, or by entering the ISBN reference, and Calibre fills it all in for you.
Calibre recognizes and converts a huge number of formats, making it the industry standard. It won't stumble over internal links, tables, encapsulated fonts, etc., and converts in batches if required.
Input formats include CBZ, CBR, CBC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT.
It exports in the following formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, TCR and TXT.
The options are numerous and very detailed, notably for the conversion and content server (you create your own little web server to access your library from anywhere). A plug-in system (with updates) makes the software open and upgradeable. The benchmark for e-books.
If you don't have an eBook reader, you can use it as a simple document manager. The program also offers extensive support for synchronizing e-books with popular devices, such as Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, and many others.
OS: Windows 10 & 11 & Linux and Mac OS
Language: multilingual, including French
License: Free software (GPLv3)