A few years back, while there were rumours still Apple was considering options of using e-ink or not, being fed-up with having to boot laptop or a desktop to read PDFs and not being able to hold laptop in hand to enjoy reading lying on my back, I had got hold of an e-reader with the help of a friend returning from a tour in Europe, after I had searched futilely for one in India. After shenagians to get the ereader to speak english, i had the ebook management software associated with the e-reader installed on my dekstop.Ughh, teh software started fighting me and on lookout for alternatvies found Calibre by googling (at mobileread forum) and have lived ever happily with Calibre.
- Get your own library at home with Calibre
- Conversion Galore using plugins: Calibre can help you convert your books to format your favourite reader understands (chm, cbz also included!). MS Doc support is not there, but you can mange by converting Doc to RTF, that Calibre can handle.
- Multiple Platform Support
- Multiple libraries
- Reading list using plugin
- Download your RSS subscriptions as a book to your favourite reader periodically (use IFTT(https://ifttt.com/) to send articles from your favourite blogs to Instapaper and download and have Calibre mail or sync the download of your Instapaper reading list article for offline reading)
