When it comes to managing our e-book library, one of the best decisions we can make is to turn to open source software, Calibre. This is a very powerful and veteran application that will allow us to carry out all kinds of work with our ebooks.
In fact, for many users this is practically essential software when it comes to managing and using this specific content. Keep in mind that on certain occasions users have a library made up of thousands of titles. These are distributed throughout the disk drives in the form of files of different compatible formats. Therefore, being able to have a program that unites them and allows us to control them, among many other things, will always be appreciated.
From here we can not only manage our library of electronic books, since we can also convert them, read them, edit their metadata and much more. In addition, all this without having to pay a single euro and with a program that barely consumes system resources. We must also know that Caliber It is compatible with most of the current ebook formats, so we will not have a problem in this regard.
But as usual in most software sectors, despite everything available natively, some users still want to go one step further. Precisely for all this, the program allows us to add certain additional complements that improve the functionality and appearance of the application. Next, we will talk about some add-ons that you will find very useful to improve the use of Calibre.
Utility plugins for ebooks in Caliber
The first thing we should know is that the program itself offers us a good amount of these additional elements. To access and install them, we only have to access their configuration window through the Preferences button. Once here, click on Complements to find different drop-down lists corresponding to the categories offered here.
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Browse Annotations: Thanks to this add-on that we can install in the program, we will have the possibility to explore all the bookmarks and notes of the books added to the library. Obviously, we will achieve this directly from a single interface, which will allow us to save a good amount of time.
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Copy to Library: Possibly many of you already know that here we can create several libraries. All this will help us to better manage the electronic books stored on our hard drives. This is an addition that allows us to copy content between the different libraries that we have created in Calibre.
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Find Duplicates: In order to save space and somewhat free up our libraries, this item will help us. Specifically, we are referring to an extension that is responsible for locating the books that we have duplicates to decide what we are going to do with them. It has a good number of parameters that we can customize and thus get the most out of this function.
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Generate Catalog: on certain occasions we will need to share or publicize the contents that are part of our library in Calibre. Well, this element will be very helpful since it is responsible for creating a catalog with all the electronic books that are part of it.
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View: we must bear in mind that the open source program we are talking about has its own reader for these contents. With everything and with it, we can use this complement to try an alternative ebook reader if the native one does not convince us.
