The setup finished with links to demo videos and an online User Manual. We could choose devices from a list of 15 different manufacturers, including Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble, as well as generic devices such as smartphones and tablets. (You can lug your entire library around with you without giving yourself a hernia! Try that with hardbacks.) Next, we set up Calibre to be compatible with our specific e-book gadget. It's also easy to establish your e-book library on a USB drive, memory card, or external drive. Of course, you can change it later, but it's not a bad idea to start with the right folder in the right location, since your e-book collection may grow rapidly when you see what's available for free (or cheap). By default, Calibre creates its library folder in your Documents library. It also prompted us to set up our e-book library by creating a destination folder or browsing to existing e-books.
It's a good e-book reader.Ĭalibre's welcome wizard let us choose from a long list of interface languages. We tried the 64-bit release of Calibre, the free, open-source reader and library manager. While many book-lovers use handheld e-book devices such as Amazon's Kindle, others read e-books on their tablets or even their smartphones.
An overview of the Calibre search syntax is available here.Quicker than you can turn a page, e-books have gone from a novelty to a publishing mainstay and will soon be the dominant format (perhaps by the time you're reading this). Search supports basic searches, e.g., for single words and phrases, but also Boolean searches and phrases near others. Once books are indexed, Calibre will run full text searches across the entire library whenever the search function is used. The fast indexing speed option requires more resources, but it finishes indexing operations faster. The default indexing speed is set to slow, which is done to limit the impact on the computer when the indexer runs. Select the FT icon next to the search field in Calibre's interface and check the "index books in this library to allow searching their full text" option when the configuration window opens.
Calibre can be configured to index the text of all books in the library to make it searchable. Calibre 6.0 supports Apple Silicon CPUs on Mac OS devices and ARM CPUs on Linux.Īnother main improvement is the ability to run full text searches using Calibre's indexing functionality. The new version of the ebook software supports new CPU architectures.
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