Calibre

I love my Kindle. I hate my disorganized folder of e-books. Sure, they are all neatly in folders by author name, and sometimes by series name. But I finally have a solution, and even better it converts formats my Kindle won’t read – lit and rtf – to mobi files that my Kindle will read. Who could ask for more?

I could. I want to be able to sort my e-books by author, by series, by genre. Calibre lets me. Even when a series is started by one author and added to by another. I want iTunes, only for my e-books. Yo, Steve – some of us still read.

It’s not a perfect app. It crashes quite a bit, particularly when accessing the database for the meta information via the Internet. It hasn’t ever lost any data due to the crashes, however. I’m going to be sending the developer of this app a donation. He deserves it, and it may improve Calibre.

It works on OS X, Windows, and Linux. Go download it now!

July 27, 2010

Time for an update on Calibre. The developer has been continuously improving this application. It never crashes anymore; that was apparently an artifact of my Internet connection being throttled at the International Gateway out of Thailand. Back in the USA, it’s golden. The interface has recently been changed to a more intuitive design. It works with my iPad, but only to install books for the iBooks app. I have to manually drop and drag books to my iPad for the Kindle Reader app.