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Catching up with CalibreCatching up with CalibrePosted Sep 1, 2011 8:06 UTC (Thu) by fb (subscriber, #53265)Parent article: Catching up with Calibre
> It definitely helps to make the transition away from real books a bit less painful.
Over here the transition from real to e-books has been nothing but joy ;-) other than the physical compactness and all the convenience that it entails, another key advantage of e-books is to be able to adjust font type and size so easily.
The main feature of Calibre for me was barely touched in the review: its e-book format conversion capabilities. I have plenty of text only PDFs, and often use Calibre to put them in MOBI format (to get text reflow and font type adjustment in my e-reader).
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Calibre conversion Posted Sep 2, 2011 15:43 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
Everyone always recommends Calibre as THE program to use for format conversion, but I find it frustrating for that because it really wants to be a library management program with format conversion as an extra feature. So someone just wanting the conversion must deal with the library management stuff whether we want to or not.
It kind of reminds me of iTunes in that respect.
While I see the advantages of the library-management aspect, we really need an ebook format-conversion program that doesn't have all that baggage.
Calibre conversion Posted Sep 4, 2011 18:11 UTC (Sun) by cwitty (subscriber, #4600) [Link]
If you want ebook format conversion without the library management, Calibre can do that. You can use the command-line program ebook-convert (part of the Calibre install) for format conversion; you never even have to run the main library-management program.
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