Linux has a good range of open source software which helps users to organise their e-book collection, catch up on a novel, and to create, validate and publish their own e-book.
Linux has a good range of open source software which helps users to organise their e-book collection, catch up on a novel, and to create, validate and publish their own e-book.
From an ebook owner,
These tools looks quute useful,
Although I already knew about Calibre and FBReader, the other programs looks quite interesting.
By the way, I also like pandoc [http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/] to convert document.
Thanks for this. It’s a much better list than I developed on my own by googling.
thanks! great link.
I need to reenforce the view of other readers that, honestly, the “B team” stream of content has been vastly superior and more in line to what this website should have been than what has been posted here in the last years by the “A team”…
I agree. I enjoy the more diverse and technical news items.
I don’t mind Thom’s articles but he really should keep his opinion to the comment section. If he’s going to put his view in the article itself, he should stick with a neutral tone and do some more research before making strong statements. It just feels like cheap tabloid click bait.
I have been using Calibre for a long time now as my e-book manager. It has a lot of useful features, like e.g. being able to fill all the missing metadata from the Internet, and I have a Calibre-server running so that I can just grab a book from there on my phone or tablet should I want to start reading something that I don’t have with me at the moment.
The issues I have with Calibre and Calibre-server are that Calibre’s UI is confusing, ugly and, well, poorly laid-out, and Calibre-server doesn’t allow for uploading of e-books or using Calibre to remotely manage the collection; every time you make changes to your collection you have to copy all the changed files to wherever you keep the server and restart it.
The UI is really bad indeed. The icons make my eyes bleed. It looks like they were collected from various sets and sizes, there is no consistency whatsoever. The software itself is pretty nice though.
by the way, does anyone knows or recommends a good opensource ebook reader for android ?
FBReader works in Android.
I kind of like coolreader [http://coolreader.org/e-index.htm]
… Sumatra PDF was available for Linux (and Mac OS).
Sumatra PDF Link: