kovidgoyal/calibre
The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
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Use Cases & Benefits
- Calibre is a comprehensive ebook manager supporting viewing, converting, editing, and cataloging ebooks in all major formats.
- It is built in Python and supports cross-platform use on Linux, Windows, and macOS with GPL-3.0 licensing.
- Key features include metadata fetching, device communication, newspaper downloading, and ebook format conversion.
- Organizations can integrate calibre for centralized ebook management, automated metadata updates, and multi-format distribution.
- Ideal use cases include personal ebook libraries, digital publishing workflows, and managing content for various ebook readers.
About calibre
calibre
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.
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Usage
See the User Manual.
Development
Setting up a development environment for calibre.
A tarball of the source code for the current calibre release.
Bugs
Bug reports and feature requests should be made in the calibre bug tracker at Launchpad. GitHub is only used for code hosting and pull requests.
Support calibre
calibre is a result of the efforts of many volunteers from all over the world. If you find it useful, please consider contributing to support its development. Donate to support calibre development.
Building calibre binaries
See Build instructions for instructions on how to build the calibre binaries and installers for all the platforms calibre supports.
calibre package versions in various repositories
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