{"id":10071,"date":"2020-09-09T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickmyreader.com\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2020-11-25T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:18:13","slug":"calibre-e-book-management-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickmyreader.com\/calibre-e-book-management-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Calibre E-Book Management Software"},"content":{"rendered":"
While Amazon Kindle is beloved by users the world over, many feel their file management could be improved considerably.<\/p>\n
Yes, Kindle does some wonderful things, but have you met Calibre?<\/p>\n
Calibre is an open source software program designed by a clever techie who loved using Kindle but found himself disappointed with some of its shortcomings.<\/p>\n
Calibre can do many things Kindle can\u2019t including:<\/p>\n
Metadata? What\u2019s that, exactly?<\/p>\n
Metadata is background information about each of your books like genre, author, date published, length, and publisher.<\/p>\n
Metadata helps you to organize your files so they\u2019re easy to manage.<\/p>\n
If you haven\u2019t already noticed, different e-book publishers use different metadata for different sections. This can make your library on your Kindle confusing and full of anomalies.<\/p>\n
The trick, then, is to have one uniform set of metadata categories.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, you can\u2019t manually edit the metadata on your Kindle.<\/p>\n
So, this is where Calibre comes in.<\/p>\n
The inventor of Calibre was so smart that he made it possible for us mere mortals to update the metadata on each file with the click of a button.<\/p>\n
So, now you can keep your library neat, tidy, and completely consistent.<\/p>\n
How do you do this, though?<\/p>\n