Dear ALL, *1st POST* Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/ is a *free e-book library management software* that can be used to *view and manage e-books*. Calibre has a built in e-book viewer which can display books in major e-book formats. It contains a table of contents, bookmarks, search box, copy, customizing via the user style sheet and etc. http://calibre-ebook.com/ *FEATURES*: 1. *Users can browse the content in the Caliber e-book viewer* 2. *Calibre e-book library management supports SVG images* 3. *The Recently added books category displays the books that are recently added to the e-book viewer* 4. *Calibre e-book view list the available e-books in title, author, rating, date and series* 5. *It supports multiple languages* 6. *Calibre e-book library management supports a variety of book reader manufactures such as Amazon, Apple, Astak, Barnes & Noble, Bookeen, Ectaco, Endless Ideas, Google/HTC, Jinke and SONY* 7. *Calibre e-book library management supports a large variety of book reader devices including Kindle 1 or 2, Kindle DX, Apple iPhone/iTouch + Stanza, EZReader, EZReader Pocket Pro, Nook, Cybook Gen 3, Cybook Opus, JetBook, BeBook, BeBook Mini, Adroid phone + WordPlayer, Hanlin V3, Hanlin V5, SONY PRS 500, SONY Reader 6" and Touch Edition, SONY Reader Daily Edition, SONY Reader Pocket Edition* 8. *The ebooks can be converted individually or bulk convert* 9. *You can create catalogs of ebooks contain in the Calibre library* 10. *You can transfer the ebook to the device* 11. *Whenever a new version to Calibre e-book library management, you will get notification* 12. *Download social metadata* 13. * The author/title can be overwrite when the program is fetching the metadata* 14. *Calibre e-book library management supports a variety of output format including EPUB, MOBI, FB2, LIT, LRF, PDB, PDF, PMLZ, RB, RTF, TCR and TXT* 15. *Calibre e-book e-book library management supports a variety of input format including EPUB, MOBI, LIT, PRC, FB2, HTML, HTML, XHTM, SHTML. XHTML ODT, RTF, PDF, TXT, RECIPE, PML, SHTM, PDB, AZW, CBC, LRF, TCR, PMLZ, CBR, OPF, RB, CBZ* 16. *You can customize the program interface including the columns, button size, show text in toolbar buttons, user internal viewer, and etc* 17. *Calibre e-book library management supports Windows and MAC OSX operating platform* 18. *Users can perform search as they type* 19. *The news can be deleted from the e-book library when it is transfer to the reader device* 20. *Users can specify the default network timeout* *2nd POST* URL: Website http://www.edweek.org/ew/events/chats/2010/03/09/ (http://www.edweek.org/ew/events/chats/2010/03/09/) Live Chat: Are Digital Textbooks Starting to Click? *Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 2 p.m. Eastern time * *Guests:* *Brian Bridges*, director, California Resource Learning Network *Neeru Kholsa*, executive director, CK-12 Foundation *Katie Ash*, staff writer, /Education Week Digital Directions/, will moderate this chat. *Note: No special equipment other than Internet access is needed to participate in any of our text-based chats.* *Participants may begin submitting questions 30 minutes before a chat starts.* THANKS -- Rupak Chakravarty Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Panjab University Chandigarh 160014 INDIA Ph: 1722534774 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.