kovidgoyal/calibre
The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 374 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Manages, views, converts, edits, and catalogs e-books across major formats while syncing with e-book reader devices.
- Offers a comprehensive, cross-platform solution integrating metadata fetching, format conversion, and device communication in one tool.
- Use for organizing and converting personal e-book collections into multiple formats for diverse reading devices.
- Use for downloading and converting newspapers into e-book formats for convenient offline reading.
- Use for developing or extending e-book management features using its Python-based open source codebase.
Should you depend on it?
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License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
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From the README
calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to e-book reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and macOS.
For more information, see the calibre About page.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
2.7K+101
Open issues
9+3
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