Its available for free download for all 3 desktop OS (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) and numerous compatible apps from 3rd party exists for iOS, Android & Windows Phone.Ĭalibre allows you to import ebooks from various formats, export to all imaginable ebook formats including ePub, PDF, Mobi & Kindle. So I turned again to calibre.Ĭalibre is a free and open source e-book library management and ereader, written by Kovid Goyal.

iBooks won’t help in Windows, which was a major dampener for me. Since I use Apple iTunes to manage all my music, videos and iPhotos for pictures, I turned to Apple iBooks (now in Mac OS) but that didn’t work out.

But I realized I have lot of ebooks from non-amazon sources especially PDFs of magazines I subscribe like IEEE Spectrum which needed better management than simply storing in OneDrive shared folders. While I have used calibre – ebook management in the past, those usages were limited and I had mostly used it as a ereader.īooks I bought from Amazon goes into my Kindle Touch and managed easily from.

Calibre open source