calibre Alternatives and Similar Software

Google Play Books

Google Play Books lets you search, preview, and buy millions of books using Google Book Search. Books in the public domain and certain copyrighted books can be read and downloaded in their entirety for free. You can buy ebooks for reading on your computer, Apple device, Android device, Nook, or Sony eReader in the Google ebookstore. All purchased eBooks are backed up online, and your page positions are automatically synced between devices.

• Only able to manage from the Google Play Books catalog. Cannot upload own books/documents. Does not sync with Kindle device, not able to edit metadata, &c. Guest • Apr 2018 • 10 agrees and 9 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Web Android iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet ... iPad

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Moon+ Reader

Innovative book reader with powerful controls & full functions: • Read thousands of ebooks for free, supports online ebook libraries • Read local books with smooth scroll and tons of innovation Support epub, pdf, mobi, chm, cbr, cbz, umd, fb2, txt, html, rar, zip or OPDS, key features: Full visual options: line space, font scale, bold, italic, shadow, justified alignment, alpha colors, fading edge etc. 10+ themes embedded, includes Day & Night mode switcher.

• Only for reading; restricted to handheld devices. madamek • May 2018 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Not management system, only reader. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree   Agree

Freemium Android Android Tablet Kindle Fire

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Data Crow

Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organiser. Always wanted to manage all your collections in one product? You want a product you can customize to your needs? Your search ends here! Using Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself.

• Discontinued The development has been stopped by the author in April 2018. Last version, 4.2.2. released in August 2017, can be still downloaded together with the source code from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted

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FBReader

FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms. Features: Supported e-book formats are: ePub, an international e-publishing standard. fb2, a Russian e-books standard de facto. Non-DRM'd version of Mobipocket, a popular commercial e-book format (Mobipocket eBook Reader). plain text is supported, however FBReader might not always correctly split text into paragraphs. some subsets of RTF and MS Word Doc.

• FBReader is not e-book management system, just a reader. Guest • Feb 2016 • 33 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• FBReader only reads, does not organize or convert formats Guest • Dec 2016 • 19 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It is an e-book reader. It does mot manage libraries or convert formats. Guest • Dec 2016 • 16 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Different category of product - FBReader is an ebook reader, Calibre is an ebook library manager. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Calibre is about organization, library management, and conversion between different formats for just about any device. The fact that it happens to have a reader is almost inconsequential, thus recomending a piece of software that only reads is very unhelpful. Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree   Agree
• It's not an e-book editor or manager. Guest • Oct 2016 Disagree   Agree
• The beta for Windows will be available in 2015. We're talking end 2018 now. Furthermore it is a reader only. Calibre is a book management system. Guest • Sep 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• FBReader is just an eBook reader. Not an organizer Guest • Mar 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• We can directly open book file on FBReader while need to add the book to library on Calibre. Guest • Jun 2016 • 2 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... S60 Blackberry Android Tablet BSD iPad

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Aldiko

Aldiko is an e-book reader application for the Android operating system. It supports the EPUB industry standard format for digital publications and incorporates facilities for browsing online catalogs on thousands of books (including thousands of free public domain work) and downloading them directly into the users personal library. The application features a bookshelf-like user interface that lets user navigate their collection of eBooks.

• I use both....calibre to manage my college, aldiko to connect to it and read books on my tablets. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Calibre manages and converts a collection. It's not just a reader. Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium Android Android Tablet

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iBooks

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. It includes the iBookstore, where you can download both the latest best-selling books, and your favorite classics. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages. iBooks supports the ePub and PDF file formats.

Free Mac iPhone iPad

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Cool Reader

Cool Reader is fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices. Understands a number of text document formats, suppurt OPDS (in new ui-opengl version). Fully customizable palette, text reformatting with any font size, font antialiasing, extra smooth scrolling and a lot of other features turn reading into a pleasure. Read Aloud function saves your eyes.

• Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last versions, released in July 2015, can be still downloaded from SourceForge and Google Play Store.

• Not management system, only reader. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android Android Tablet

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Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle software lets you read ebooks on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based device. You can discover and read over 630,000 books in the Kindle Store, including the latest bestsellers and new releases. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices, so you can pick up right where you left off no matter what device you are reading on.

• Calibre is a book manager. It manages books collection and books metadata. It's like a librarian. Amazon Kindle is a book reader with a basic book management (it manages the titles of the books one bought) . Guest • Sep 2016 • 26 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Calibre is a book manager and amazon kindle is an ebook reader software, it doesn't manage and convert the books on the other hand calibre let you manage, convert, edit and view the books. Guest • Apr 2017 • 10 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• kindle app is a drm viewer Calibre is an organiser with viewer conversion and other open features Guest • Oct 2017 • 7 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Aamazon kindle is far better than calibre, but for ebook management app (desktop), then amazon kindle is not an alternative.... not at all. Guest • May 2017 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Ereader that can only display books purchased from Amazon. garrettc • Mar 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Blackberry Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad

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Document Viewer

A fork of the last GPL version of EBookDroid. Supports the following formats: PDF DjVu XPS (OpenXPS) Comic Books (cbz) (NO support for cbr (rar compressed)) FictionBook (fb2, fb2.zip) Collaboration with electronic publication sites and access to online ebook catalogs is allowed by the supported OPDS protocol.

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet F-Droid

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Calibre Web

Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted

GoodReader

With GoodReader on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere. Books, movies, maps, pictures; GoodReader puts it all in a single app, right in your pocket. GoodReader lets you transfer files to your iOS device, directly from your computer over a USB cable or Wi-Fi connection, from the Internet, or from email attachments. It also easily integrates with MobileMe iDisk, box.net, MyDisk.

Commercial iPhone iPad

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EPUBReader

EPUBReader is a Firefox addon which lets you read ePub-files just in the browser. You don't need to install additional software! If you click on a link to an ePub-file, you are normally prompted by the Firefox "save as" dialog. With EPUBReader installed, the ePub-file is downloaded, processed and directly displayed ready to read. It runs on every operating system Firefox does (Windows, MacOS X, Linux).

Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome Firefox

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Adobe Digital Editions

One eBook reader for all your Adobe DRM protected books across your iPad, Mac or PC. Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) is free-to-download and use, and completely ad-free. Use it to read EPUB and PDF books, both online and offline. Borrow ebooks from many public libraries for use with ADE.

Free Mac Windows Android

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BookFusion

A global eBook platform focused on openness that provides e-book library management for users to read and share their e-books across all devices; while also allowing schools, corporate and other organizations to easily create and deploy their own digital library to provide secure access to their content across all devices.

Free Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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PocketBook Reader

Read, search, make notes & highlights in PDF (Adobe DRM), EPUB (Adobe DRM), DjVu, TXT, FB2, FB2.zip book formats. Enjoy a unique, fast and user-friendly interface that was designed to provide the most convenient set of options for you to fully enjoy reading a book. PocketBook reader allows you to customize your reading experience by adjusting text size, layouts, colors and many other options.

Free Android Android Tablet

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TEBookConverter

TEBookConverter is an easy-to-use ebook converter that uses Calibre. Supported input formats are cbz, cbr, cbc, chm, djvu, docx, epub, fb2, html, htmlz, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdf, prc, pdb, pml, rb, rtf, snb, tcr, txt, txtz. Supported output formats are azw3, epub, fb2, oeb, lit, lrf, mobi, htmlz, pdb, pml, rb, pdf, rtf, snb, tcr, txt, txtz. You can convert ebooks fast thanks to multithreading.

Free Open Source Windows

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eReader Prestigio

eReader Prestigio: Book Reader is a multi lingual, multi format text and audio books reading app. Intuitive interface in over 25 languages and an in app store library with over 50,000 text (for children and adults) books and Text-To-Speech (read along) functionality. Prestigio ebooks reader is cool - book and text reading never been simpler - you can read text files in multiple formats including epub, html, fb2, fb2.

Free Android

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AlReader

AlReader 2 is an eBook Reader for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC products as well as Windows This is a free program. # Support profiles «Day» / «Night» (in the profile includes settings of text font: size, Bold, smoothing, color: the background, text, and the status bar) - up to 8 profiles # Read HTML, FB2, EPUB - support text styles, images, referrals, content. # Reading CHM - experimental support.

Free Windows Windows Mobile Android

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Bookworm

Read the books you love without having to worry about different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc.

Free Open Source Linux

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KDeasy

With the KDeasy Kindle Manager software you can manage your Kindle library from computer, even if you have a library containing hundreds of books. It is the only freeware to manage Kindle books without limits! Supported devices: Kindle 3(Keyboard), Kindle 4(5-way controller), Kindle Touch, Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite (2). With firmware version under and not include 5.4.5. (The supporting devices limitation only effect the "Collection" feature.

Free Mac Windows

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Jutoh

Epub editor, convertor and creator software for Mac and PC. Convert to ePub ebooks for Kindle, iBookstore, iBooks, iPhone, Mobipocket.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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NOOK

Download NOOK, and get access to over a million eBooks, newspapers, magazines- all just a touch away. Plus, free samples of ebooks & thousands of free titles. NOOK offers unique, unbeatable features, including exclusive LendMe™ technology that lets you share eBooks with friends, and a safe and secure eBooks Lifetime Library™ that keeps your eBooks accessible anytime, anywhere no matter what device you own.

Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Blackberry ... Windows RT Android Tablet iPad

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Alfa eBooks Manager

The most powerful and easy-to-use Book Organizer Alfa Ebooks Manager is a free program that allows to organize your electronic and paper books in single e-Library Store electronic and printed books in a single e-Library. Group, filter and sort books by multiple parameters. Find any book in just a second by title, author or ISBN.

Freemium Windows

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Bluefire

Bluefire Reader is your go-to reading application for ePub and PDF content, including ebooks from most online book stores and leading libraries around the world. Bluefire Reader includes support for eBooks protected by Adobe Content Server.

Free Android iPhone iPad

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AlfaReader

AlfaReader allows to read PDF, EPUB and TXT books and magazines. You can select between the multiple e-reading templates and zoom pages and font size. The program automatically remembers where you finished reading and next time opens the bookmarked page. You can easily browse ebook by the table of contests. When you add a new book to AlfaReader, it appears on the virtual bookshelf, that can help you to organize your little library.

Free Windows

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