Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development

Calibre is a feature-laden, open source e-book manager; many readers mentioned in light of the recently posted news about Barnes & Noble's Nook that they use Calibre to deal with their reading material. Reader Trashcan Romeo writes with some news on its new 1.0 release, summing it up thus: "The new version of the premier e-book management application boasts a completely re-written database backend and PDF output engine as well a new book-cover grid view."

Comments

Thanks Kovid!

[demonlapin]

Don't forget to give the man some money. He updates Calibre frequently - sometimes more than once a week - and doesn't charge a nickel.

Re:Thanks Kovid!

[Colonel Korn]

So what? Nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to work on it.

Sorry to feed the troll, but this one's amusing. I enjoy the implication that only work performed at the barrel of a firearm should be rewarded.

Re:Does it do custom folders?

[icebike]

He realized tags made way more sense than odd-ball sorting into directories.
Any directory structure is a lock in, as soon as you realize it doesn't work.

So he added tagging with your tags or standard tags.

But For people who insist on organizing in some antiquated way he created Save to Disk settings where you can change the
order used when exporting. You can customize to create any sort of directory structure for your exported files.
So lock-in go Poof, vanished before your very eyes.

Further you can also create the custome structure when sending books to a device (e-reader), and guess what... It can be
different than you use for exporting. So when you find that your eReader doesn't support sorting by Genre, you
can change that back to something sensible.

Tagging is way better than structured directories. You can sort by any tag within Calibre, and output in any order you want.
There is no lock in.

(Its 2013. Tagging is where its at. Obscure Structured directories are so 1999.