If you are in the market for a new e-reader or tablet, you may be asking yourself, what the difference is between them. eReaders are geared toward those who want to read books or magazines on a portable device. However, tablets allow you to use different apps to watch video content, do some work, listenContinue reading “eReader vs Tablets (Comparison Guide)”
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Read Comics Online Free
The comic book industry has seen a huge surge of new fans with the increase in feature films revolving around the Marvel and DC comics movies. While traditional comic books are fun to read and collect, it can get pretty expensive. Most comic books start around $4-$6 each, with special editions and releases netting moreContinue reading “Read Comics Online Free”
Read Manga Online
Reading Manga Online just got easier! Manga is one of the world’s most popular forms of graphic novels or Comic Books. It was originally created in Japan but now stretches its tentacles far and wide across the planet. Manga covers almost any genre you can possibly imagine which gives it the ability to capture everyContinue reading “Read Manga Online”
Welcome to the new Calibre Blog
Hi Everyone, I’m Sam and I’m a huge fan of Calibre and I’m so happy that I get to take this opportunity to expand the Calibre Blog. We are going to be doing things a bit differently than they were done in the past. Previous posts were mostly tutorials but we want to accomplish aContinue reading “Welcome to the new Calibre Blog”
welcome to calibre’s blog (Old Post)
Welcome to calibre’s blog on tips and tricks, that make calibre an indispensable tool to all you enthusiastic ebook users. This blog will have regular (of the order of weekly) posts on various obscure and not so obscure features of calibre with details on how and where to use them. The posts will sometimes focus on Open Books,Continue reading “welcome to calibre’s blog (Old Post)”
the calibre viewer
Today we explore the many features of calibres ebook viewer. calibre’s ebook viewer allows you to view ebooks in all of the 22 input formats that calibre supports conversion from. These include CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ, andContinue reading “the calibre viewer”
all about “Get Books”
“Get Books” allows you to search for ebooks online, that you can thenpurchase/download to your calibre library. It can simultaneously search over 40 different online stores for books by title and author. The returned list of matches can be sorted by price, allowing you to find the cheapest edition of the book. To access “GetContinue reading “all about “Get Books””
Custom news fetching
The “Fetch News” feature in calibre is very powerful and versatile. It has over a 1000 built in news recipes, spanning over 30 languages and 50 countries, for websites of newspapers, magazines and blogs. At the click of a few buttons you can set up regular downloads of the news source of your choice. NotContinue reading “Custom news fetching”
ebook format conversion
A lot of you have used calibre to convert your ebooks between different formats. The calibre conversion system is very sophisticated and has many subtleties. Today I will discuss just a few features that are often overlooked and yet a lot of you may find very useful. The following is the “Convert books” icon inContinue reading “ebook format conversion”
calibre’s tag browser
The calibre tag browser is a versatile and powerful tool with some obvious and many obscure but extremely useful features. Today I will discuss some of these features. The figure on the left below shows the part of the main calibre window which is the “tag browser”. One of the more obscure features I willContinue reading “calibre’s tag browser”