calibre - E-book management

So sending my pdf books to my kindle has been a pain in the backside. This app converts pdfs to kindle standard formats! And so many edit, organize, reformat... FREE! I've been doing it the hard way for MANNY years. NO MORE. Love this app. Can be complex, but you'll get the hang of it. Suggestion: Make a backup copy of a book you like, THEN mess with it using the tools in the app. You'll likely mess the book over, but you'll get the idea. Then delete the messed up one and replace it with the backup.

A great example of a free, open source application fulfilling a need created by commercial products, Calibre may well be the only e-book app you'll ever need. More than equal in quality and function to anything you'd pay for, it's been designed as the perfect tool and it comes very close.

The main features are that it will catalogue all your e-book files into a virtual library, regardless of format; it will act as a well-appointed viewer for any file format; it will connect to various e-readers; it will convert e-book files of any format to any other format, and it will grab articles from several hundred of the most popular news feeds on the web and turn the feeds into e-books that you can read offline.

I can't say there's much if anything to fault here, really. The creator and developer writes, "Reading is very important to me and one of my goals has always been to prevent either the fragmentation or the monopolization of the e-book market by entities that care solely for short-term goals," and there's nothing to fault there, either.