![]() Under new managementĬalibre is a powerful tool that lets you organize and manage all your ebooks with ease, and has a variety of plugins that can supercharge the experience.Įarlier this year, Amazon updated the Kindle software to allow using book covers as your reader's screensaver. If you want to change your ebook cover, you’ll have to get your hands dirty with a few 3rd-party programs, but it’s a fairly simple process, and we’ve covered all of those steps below. Even if it doesn't get replaced with an entirely new image, you might still prefer your copy of The Green Knight not have a big "Now a Major Motion Picture" badge slapped over the cover. In cases like Dune, which has once again been turned into a movie, you might find your nicely-designed sci-fi cover one day replaced with a generic collage of actor's faces that’s more of an advertisement for the movie than a reflection of the actual novel. If you buy your ebooks through Amazon's store, your book's cover art is subject to change on a whim. While there isn't much you can do about the hardcopy, there is a way to change the cover on your Kindle to put your book-loving soul at ease. But nothing is perhaps more annoying than seeing the cover of one of your favorite books replaced with its movie poster. If you have more questions, or want to discuss calibre with other users or askįor help with specific things, there are forums and other help resourcesĪn e-book version of this User Manual is available in EPUB format, AZW3 (Kindle) format and PDF format.From pop-up ads to push notifications, our screens can be riddled with annoyances. You will find the list of Frequently Asked Questions useful as well. For even more power and versatility, learn the Command Line Interface. To get started with more advanced usage, you should read about The Graphical User Interface. Once the icon stops spinning again, disconnect your reader and read away! If you didn’t convert the book in the previous step, calibre will auto convert it to the format your reader device understands. If you want to read the book on your reader, connect the reader to the computer, wait till calibre detects it (10-20 seconds) and then click the “Send to device” button. Click the “View” button to read the book. Once it’s finished spinning, your converted book is ready. The little icon in the bottom right corner will start spinning. Ignore all the options for now and click “OK”. Just select the book you want to convert then click the “Convert books” button. When first running calibre, the Welcome wizard starts and will set up calibre for your reader device. In order to do that you’ll have to convert the book to a format your reader understands. Once you’ve admired the list of books you just added to your heart’s content, you’ll probably want to read one. Once you’ve added the books, they will show up in the main view looking something like this: Drag and drop a few e-book files into calibre, or click the “Add books” button and browse for the e-books you want to work with. What do you do now? Before calibre can do anything with your e-books, it first has to know about them. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and macOS. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It can go out to the Internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can also talk to many e-book reader devices. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats.
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