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Calibre (pronounced cal-i-ber) is a cross-platform free and open-source suite of e-book software. Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing e-books with a variety of e-readers. Editing books is supported for EPUB and AZW3 formats.
The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to another, as well as to create, edit and publish e-books.
Calibre e-book reader can view and convert comic archives to different formats; CDisplay was the first application to support the CBR format. CDisplayEx, inspired by CDisplay with additional viewing features. Comic Seer (Desktop) is a comic book archive viewer and organizer for the desktop.
Many e-readers or e-book reading applications support importing books from an OPDS catalog. E-book management applications such as Calibre also often include OPDS server software to make an e-book collection available through an OPDS catalog.
E-book software is software that allows the creation, editing, display, conversion and/or publishing of e-books. E-book software is available for many platforms in both paid, proprietary as well as free, open source form.
Alfresco - open source CMS, DAM component can read/write XMP (Microsoft Windows, Linux) Calibre by Kovid Goyal, an ebook management system that can read and write XMP metadata from some file formats; CC PDF Converter - A free open source (GPL) program to convert documents to PDF with embedded Creative-Commons license (Microsoft Windows).
Adobe Digital Editions uses the proprietary ADEPT (Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology) digital rights management scheme, [3] which is also implemented on some e-book readers, including iPads and many Android devices, but not Kindles. [4] The software locks content to up to six machines and allows the user to view the content on each ...
Sumatra PDF is a free and open-source document viewer that supports many document formats including: Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), DjVu, EPUB, FictionBook (FB2), MOBI, PRC, Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS, OXPS, XPS), and Comic Book Archive file (CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ). [3]