Digitions has a great article about Calibre E-book Management, which has a host of features for managing ebooks, including:
- Library Management
- E-book Conversion
- Syncing to e-book reader devices
According to Calibre’s website, “Calibre started life on 31 October, 2006, soon after the release of the SONY PRS-500, the first e-ink based reader to be sold commercially in the US.” The developer wanted to get it to work with Linux so he worked with developers at mobileread.com to reverse engineer the USB protocols and thus calibre was born. That is one smart dude in my opinion.
It’s a free download and it works on PCs, Macs, and Linux. It converts ebooks and allows you to organize them much in the same way you organize music with iTunes. It is device independent and works with the following ebook inputs and outputs:
Input Formats: CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT
Output Formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, TCR, TXT