Dear ALL,

1st POST

Calibre 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/)

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

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