Chapter 24. Managing Your ebooks with Calibre

I have a huge library of ebooks. Because I get my ebooks from many different sources, they are spread out all over my hard drive. My ADE books are in one folder, books I’ve bought from Fictionwise are in another folder, my Project Gutenberg books in yet another, and so on. All my files on my computer are backed up, so I’m not concerned about losing them, but it sure is easier to manage them when they are all in one location.

Awhile back I discovered Calibre, a free application for managing an ebook library. Calibre is incredibly powerful, but it’s also easy to use. In this chapter, you learn to use Calibre to manage your library; edit the metadata for your ebooks so that they show up correctly on ...

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