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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.
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).
As a cross-platform application, Sigil is distributed for the Windows, macOS, Haiku and Linux platforms under the GNU GPL license. Sigil supports code-based editing of EPUB files, as well as the import of HTML and plain text files. [2] [3] A companion application, PageEdit, allows WYSIWYG editing of EPUB files.
Some reference management software include support for automatic embedding and (re)formatting of references in Word processor programs. This table lists this type of support for Microsoft Word , Pages , Apache OpenOffice / LibreOffice Writer , the LaTeX editors Kile and LyX , and Google Docs .
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.
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.