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Can you explain or link to some resources on what calibre does with ebooks?

• solardev 4y ago
  Their website is terrible (this was the best resource there I found: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/#customizing-calibre-s-e-book-conversion https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/#customizing-calibre-s-e-bo...), but the Calibre software itself is really powerful, letting you do things like: * Read eBooks in just about any popular or semi-popular format * Manage your library * Convert books to and from any of the supported formats, specifying details of that conversion like tables of content, typography, chapter headings, etc. * Edit book metadata * With a plugin, strip DRMed ebooks of their protection so you can use them on other devices It's just a one-stop GUI for doing just about any sort of ebook maintenance/library management/cleanup. Helpful if your source materials are free or pirated, or if your device is unsupported at the major ebook stores. Lets you take a Kindle-only ebook, for example, get rid of the DRM, rip it to a more standard format, and send it to some obscure ereader that you have.
  • zufallsheld 4y ago
    I think you misunderstood my question. The question was in regards to this sentence from the op: > Calibre actually does horrible things to the HTML source that hides in each epub.
    • solardev 4y ago
      I did indeed misunderstand. I'm sorry :)