![]() ![]() It has a very handsome cover art browser. It allows rating, so you can keep track of how much you liked your book. For households with multiple species of e-readers, this is a must.Ĭalibre also can autopopulate your library's metadata, pulling it down from a number of different on-line databases by title, author and ISBN. For example, Sigil does this quite splendidly for epub. For fine-grained metadata control, you need more specialized tools, or you need to edit the files directly with a compatible editor. Unlike most proprietary, device-specific management programs, Calibre converts all major formats one into another (I do not know how it handles DRM, as at the time of this writing the DMCA overthrow has just come down-happy day!-so any such features are as yet undocumented), and allows medium-grained metadata control over all of them. The product specs are ambitious, and the implementation is, though occasionally bumpy, pretty darn spectacular. Fortunately, I wasn't the only person with this problem.Įnter Calibre, the Python-based, data-fetching, universally-device-compatible e-book management and conversion program. What I needed was something like iTunes or Amarok, but with a decent interface, designed for books. ![]() They're usually not Linux-friendly, and they're also not very friendly to collection longevity. e-book management software that ships with many readers attempt to do this, but they tend to have proprietary ties to devices and operating systems. That's adequate for reference materials, but not great for the inevitable “hmmm.what do I want to read next?”Ī good library needs good metadata, and directory structures have squat. After all, the best you can do with a good directory tree is break out by genre, author and series. ![]() After many hours, I wound up with a system that was excellent for nonfiction, but crap for fiction. Generation one of my library organization project went the way any competent, non-database-designing sysadmin would do it: with a sensible directory structure.
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