Calibre for Mac
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Publisher's Description
From Kovid Goyal:
Calibre is a one stop solution to your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer. Calibre's features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats; giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.
All User Reviews
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Current version:
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All versions:
3.4 starsout of 25 votes
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"Fantastic application - difficult interface"
Version: Calibre 0.9
Pros
Converts to and from most any e-book format and does it quite well. Once you figure out how to use it, it's practically a "killer app" for e-book lovers.
Cons
It's tough to figure out how to use it. A tutorial, simpler interface, or something like it is needed to make it live up to its true potential.
Summary
This is a "must-have" program, but you really need to work with it for some time in order to figure it out. Not everyone has that much patience.
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"cross-platform implementation on the Mac makes no sense"
Version: Calibre 0.8.61
Pros
probably works, but
Cons
Fails to automatically look at original document, to then set conversion defaults. The result is a document with lines too long or too short.
The bigger problem is that this doesn't work like other Mac programs, you can't drop a file on the application, it takes FOREVER to load, and there is no obvious logic to follow to change a .PDF file to an eBook.Summary
I'd be delighted to pay real money to someone who turns the underlying engine into a real Mac program.
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"Below average"
Version: Calibre 0.8.55
Pros
Converts small files well
Cons
Unable to convert large files,
My computer becomes soooooooooooooooooo slooooooooowSummary
Some good features, but need a bit of upgrade
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"Killed my Kindle"
Version: Calibre 0.8.51
Pros
I have nothing good to say about it.
Cons
I converted the e-book file to be kindle-compatible, and then installed it on my kindle. It basically killed my kindle, and I am unable to start it up. I've tried all the tricks to get it working again, but to no avail.
Summary
Big mistake.
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"Useful but Ugly"
Version: Calibre 0.8.8
Pros
Converts to different ebook formats
Cons
GUI and Icons could use some work
Summary
You can convert from and to different formats; epub, mobibook, pdf, etc..
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"Important functionality but confusing array of options"
Version: Calibre 0.8.4
Pros
Allows filing as well as access
Cons
non-intuitive interface
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"Outstanding program for its use."
Version: Calibre 0.7.50
Pros
Easily imports books, no matter their formatting. Even works with ebooks which are not designed for an electronic reader. Allows reformatting to meet your needs. Can, in most cases, retrieve the metadata for your ebook.
Cons
If you aren't careful with your settings and selections, if you can delete your files without realizing that your doing so until their gone. Be sure to read the online program manual or you may be sorry.
Summary
I have thousands of digitized books in PDF format on my old Mac which I thought I was going to lose. This program allowed me to batch convert these files to text files which I will be able to use on whatever system I get to replace my dying computer.
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"Good tool, bad interface"
Version: Calibre 0.7.49
Pros
Offers eBook conversion, allowing us Kindle types to convert ePubs, etc.
Cons
A clearly "cross platform" interface, keeps its files in odd places, insists on running as a library rather than merely a tool.
Summary
A fantastic quality tool for free, but insists a little too much on trying to become the centre of your electronic book collection.
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"unusable - won't open"
Version: Calibre 0.7.48
Pros
none that I could ascertain
Cons
unusable - I get message " You cannot open the application "Calibre" because it is not supported on this architecture"
Summary
waste of download time
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"App good, review demand ******"
Version: Calibre 0.7.44
Pros
App good, review demand ******
Cons
App good, review demand ******
Summary
App good, review demand ******
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What's new in version 0.9.2
New Features
- Wireless driver: Speed up deleting of multiple books
- E-book viewer: Add options to hide the scrollbar and show reading position in full screen mode. Closes tickets: 1047450
- News download: Add a field to allow recipe authors to tell calibre to remove duplicate articles that a re present in more than one section from the download.
- Metadata download: Turn off the use of the published date for the earliest edition a book as the published date. The earliest edition was identified via worldcat.org, which has rather poor data, leading to the occasional incorrect result. If you want this feature back, you can turn it on again via Preferences->Metadata download.
Bug Fixes
- ODT Input: More workarounds for the image positioning markup produced by newer versions of LibreOffice. Closes tickets: 1063207
- Metadata download dialog: Fix selected cover being changed when covers are re-sorted after download completes.
- MTP driver: Ignore errors when getting the driveinfo.calibre file from the device and simply regenerate it.
- E-book viewer: Use the system locale settings to display the 24/12 hour clock in full screen mode. Closes tickets: 1063209
- Content Server: Make OPDS initial page respect the fields to display tweak
- Fix regression that caused calibre to not use OPF files when adding books recursively from directories with multiple books per directory
- KF8 Output: Fix handling of input documents that have URL unsafe characters in the file names of their images. Closes tickets: 1062477
- Fix enumeration type custom column not being merged. Closes tickets: 1061602
New news sources
- PVP Online, Mobile Nations, The Verge and Television Without Pity by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
- Pubblico Giornale
- Der Spiegel
- Shortlist
- FHM UK
- Countryfile
- Cosmo UK
- The Sun UK
- NME
General
- Download Type:
- CNET Secure Download
- Publisher
- Kovid Goyal
- Publisher Web Site
- http://kovidgoyal.net/
- Release Date
- October 11, 2012
- Date Added
- October 11, 2012
- Version
- 0.9.2
Category
- Category
- Educational Software
- Subcategory
- eBooks
System Requirements
- Operating Systems
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.7, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5
- Additional Requirements
- Not available
Download Information
- File Size
- 75.75MB
- File Name
- calibre-0.9.2.dmg
Popularity
- Total Downloads
- 52,833
- Downloads Last Week
- 413
Pricing
- License Model
- Free
- Limitations
- Not available
- Price
- Not available
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