For those users just getting started with Calibre, but also for proficient users aiming to maximise Calibre's potentials, check out MakeUseOf's Guide To Calibre eBook Manager. A bit on the heavy side, but this eBook management suite is incredibly powerful and always easy to use. However, buying books from other eBook stores, or synchronising with your pre-Kindle eBook library still isn't as easy as it should be.īefore Kindle, I fell in love with Calibre. Buying books online and getting them on your device is as easy as ever. Much of that is simplified if you chose Amazon's Kindle as your partner in crime. The biggest problem is that, closed off as these devices often times are, it requires unreasonable effort to move books between different devices. It's a special kind of freedom that tastes particularly sweet.īut an eReader is not all fun and games. You can take that half dozen or few hundred books with you, on the train or abroad. Although there are still aesthetic pleasures to be had from a good old-fashioned library, hundreds of books on your eReader requires just as much physical space as half a dozen. In the past, an extensive library required lots of shelf space and - if you were traveling - a seriously heavy suitcase.

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