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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.
In October 2014 there were around 30 plugins available. In June 2015 there were more than 70 stable plug-ins available. Some of the software that is controllable via third-party plug-ins are: [14] File synchronization: BitTorrent Sync and Syncthing; Calibre – e-book manager; Backup: Borg, Clonezilla, duplicati, rsnapshot and SystemRescueCD
FBReader is an e-book reader for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Android, and other platforms.. It was originally written for the Sharp Zaurus and currently runs on many other mobile devices, like the Nokia Internet Tablets, as well as desktop computers.
The Plucker software suite includes a supporting desktop application for creating Plucker files and transferring them to supported devices. Plucker was designed for late-1990s and early-2000s low-power handheld devices such as the Palm Pilot , before the advent of widespread wireless internet and internet-enabled mobile devices.
It is a proprietary format, but some reader software for general-purpose computers, particularly under Linux (for example, Calibre's internal viewer [2]), have the capability to read it. The LRX file extension represents a DRM-encrypted e-book. More recently, Sony has converted its books from BBeB to EPUB and is now issuing new titles in EPUB.
Writer2ePub (W2E) is a free extension for the various implementations of the Writer text processor [note 2] to create EPUB-formatted e-Books "from any file format that Writer can read". [3] [4] [5] A text to be exported as EPUB has to be saved as OpenDocument (ODT)-formatted text document. Writer2epub is written in OpenOffice Basic. The author ...
Technically, a file in the EPUB format is a ZIP archive file consisting of XHTML files carrying the content, along with images and other supporting files. EPUB is the most widely supported vendor-independent XML -based e-book format; it is supported by almost all hardware readers and many software readers and mobile apps .
Kindle File Format is a proprietary e-book file format created by Amazon.com that can be downloaded and read on devices like smartphones, tablets, computers, or e-readers that have Amazon's Kindle app. E-book files in the Kindle File Format originally had the filename extension.azw; [a] version 8 (KF8) introduced HTML5 & CSS3 features and have the .azw3 extension, and version 10 introduced a ...