In this article, I’m going to assume that you know how to add a book into Calibre and edit the metadata. I’m not going to belabor adding books to Calibre as I blogged about that previously. I’ve converted hundreds of books from all different formats and generally, the transition is very smooth. Calibre allows you to take ebooks from all over the web and convert them into epub format. Sony Reader and the Stanza application on the iPhone both read the ePub format. There is a push amongst publishers and other ebook aficianodos (word doc) to create an industry standard and that format is ePub. If you’ve read the Sunday articles here at Dear Author, you know that there are a number of formats for ebooks. The key to this is Calibre’s ability to output content in “epub” format. Because it is open source, ebook readers with technological skills have added and enhanced Calibre to the point that it serves as a beautiful convergence program connecting your ebook library to both an iPhone and a Sony Reader. Calibre was first developed to assist Sony Reader users to add content to the device. In the first post, we discussed what a great tool Calibre was for ebook management but the real beauty of Calibre is its iPhone/Sony Reader/Cybook interface. Jane Ebooks Calibre / iPhone / Sony 54 CommentsĪ couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a free program called Calibre.

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