Chapter 20. 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 Kobo are in another folder, 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.

A while 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 they show up correctly on your NOOKcolor and NOOK, get cover art when covers are ...

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