calibre - E-book management

This is an excellent program. Among other things, it does an excellent job of converting files from PDF or EPUB formats to MOBI or AZW formats. It successfully preserves diacritics and other uncommon fonts. The online convertors I tried weren't nearly as effective. The software does many other things in addition to converting files, but I haven't had a need for those features as of yet.

This is also a very good ebook converter that strips away DRM and allows you to create pdfs of your own ebooks which you have purchased. This is open source and free for all.

I use this ALL THE TIME for my Sony eReader and it also works great for my iPad to convert mobi books that I have accumulated to ePub for easy transfer to my itunes and then to my ipad for reading! And to think they give this away free of charge. Must have for any avid ebook fan. For standard eReaders, it has a built in library function that rivals even the iBooks one. I'd give this 10 stars if I could.

A decent ebook converter, does a good job at letting users create pdfs of their own books if they purchase one. The best thing about this is that it's completely free to use.

A great example of a free, open source application fulfilling a need created by commercial products, Calibre may well be the only e-book app you'll ever need. More than equal in quality and function to anything you'd pay for, it's been designed as the perfect tool and it comes very close.

The main features are that it will catalogue all your e-book files into a virtual library, regardless of format; it will act as a well-appointed viewer for any file format; it will connect to various e-readers; it will convert e-book files of any format to any other format, and it will grab articles from several hundred of the most popular news feeds on the web and turn the feeds into e-books that you can read offline.

I can't say there's much if anything to fault here, really. The creator and developer writes, "Reading is very important to me and one of my goals has always been to prevent either the fragmentation or the monopolization of the e-book market by entities that care solely for short-term goals," and there's nothing to fault there, either.