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Navigation modules next | Start » calibre User Manual Change language Czech Dutch (Netherlands) Estonian French German Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian The main calibre user interface Adding your favorite news website to calibre The calibre E-book viewer Customizing calibre’s e-book conversion Editing e-books The calibre Content server Comparing e-books Editing e-book metadata Frequently Asked Questions Tutorials Customizing calibre The Command Line Interface Setting up a calibre development environment Related Topics Documentation overview Next: The Graphical User Interface calibre User Manual ¶ calibre is an e-book library manager. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to many 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. You’ve just started calibre. What do you do now? Before calibre can do anything with your e-books, it first has to know about them. 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. Once you’ve added the books, they will show up in the main view looking something like this: Once you’ve admired the list of books you just added to your heart’s content, you’ll probably want to read one. In order to do that you’ll have to convert the book to a format your reader understands. When first running calibre, the Welcome wizard starts and will set up calibre for your reader device. Conversion is a breeze. Just select the book you want to convert then click the “Convert books” button. Ignore all the options for now and click “OK”. The little icon in the bottom right corner will start spinning. Once it’s finished spinning, your converted book is ready. Click the “View” button to read the book. If you want to read the book on your reader, connect it to the computer, wait till calibre detects it (10-20 seconds) and then click the “Send to device” button. 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. To get started with more advanced usage, you should read about The Graphical User Interface . For even more power and versatility, learn the Command Line Interface . You will find the list of Frequently Asked Questions useful as well. If you have more questions, or want to discuss calibre with other users or ask for help with specific things, there are forums and other help resources available . An e-book version of this User Manual is available in EPUB format , AZW3 (Kindle Fire) format and PDF format . Sections The Graphical User Interface Adding your favorite news website The E-book viewer E-book conversion Editing e-books The calibre Content server Comparing e-books Editing e-book metadata Frequently Asked Questions Tutorials The calibre:// URL scheme Customizing calibre Command Line Interface Setting up a calibre development environment Digital Rights Management (DRM) Glossary The main calibre user interface ¶ The Graphical User Interface Actions Preferences Catalogs Search & sort The search interface Saving searches Virtual libraries Guessing metadata from file names Book details Tag browser Cover grid Cover browser Quickview Jobs Keyboard shortcuts Adding your favorite news website to calibre ¶ Adding your favorite news website Completely automatic fetching Customizing the fetch process Tips for developing new recipes Further reading API documentation The calibre E-book viewer ¶ The E-book viewer Starting the E-book viewer Navigating around an e-book Highlighting text Read aloud Following links using only the keyboard Customizing the look and feel of your reading experience Dictionary lookup Copying text and images Zooming in on images Non re-flowable content Customizing calibre’s e-book conversion ¶ E-book conversion Introduction Look & feel Page setup Heuristic processing Search & replace Structure detection Table of Contents Using images as chapter titles when converting HTML input documents Using tag attributes to supply the text for entries in the Table of Contents How options are set/saved for conversion Format specific tips Editing e-books ¶ Editing e-books Basic workflow The File browser Search & replace Automated tools Checkpoints The Live preview panel The Live CSS panel Miscellaneous tools Special features in the code editor The calibre Content server ¶ The calibre Content server Accessing the Content server from other devices The server interface Browser support Enabling offline support Managing user accounts from the command-line only Integrating the calibre Content server into other servers Creating a service for the calibre server on a modern Linux system Comparing e-books ¶ Comparing e-books Understanding the comparison view Launching the comparison tool Editing e-book metadata ¶ Editing e-book metadata Editing the metadata of one book at a time Editing the metadata of many books at a time Frequently Asked Questions ¶ Frequently Asked Questions E-book format conversion Device integration Library management Miscellaneous Tutorials ¶ Tutorials Adding your favorite news website Managing subgroups of books, for example “genre” XPath tutorial The calibre template language All about using regular expressions in calibre Writing your own plugins to extend calibre’s functionality Typesetting mathematics in e-books Creating AZW3 • EPUB • MOBI catalogs Virtual libraries Customizing calibre ¶ Customizing calibre Environment variables Tweaks Overriding icons, templates, et cetera Creating your own icon theme for calibre Customizing calibre with plugins The Command Line Interface ¶ Command Line Interface Documented commands Undocumented commands Setting up a calibre development environment ¶ Setting up a calibre development environment Design philosophy Getting the code Windows development environment macOS development environment Linux development environment Having separate “normal” and “development” calibre installs on the same computer Debugging tips Using calibre in your projects API documentation for various parts of calibre © Copyright Kovid Goyal. 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