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:
- Users can browse the content in the
Caliber e-book viewer
- Calibre e-book library management
supports SVG images
- The Recently added books category
displays the books that are recently added to the e-book viewer
- Calibre e-book view list the available
e-books in title, author, rating, date and series
- It supports multiple languages
- 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
- 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
- The ebooks can be converted
individually or bulk convert
- You can create catalogs of ebooks
contain in the Calibre library
- You can transfer the ebook to the
device
- Whenever a new version to Calibre
e-book library management, you will get notification
- Download social metadata
- The author/title can be overwrite when
the program is fetching the metadata
- 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
- 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
- You can customize the program interface
including the columns, button size, show text in toolbar buttons,
user internal viewer, and etc
- Calibre e-book library management
supports Windows and MAC OSX operating platform
- Users can perform search as they type
- The news can be deleted from the e-book
library when it is transfer to the reader device
- 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