With every e-reader is well software to manage and transfer e-books on the e-reader

With every e-reader is well software to manage and transfer e-books on the e-reader, but that software is often mediocre quality and not user friendly. Therefore, many users switch to Calibre. With these tips you keep track of your collection of e-books.

installing Calibre
E-books are in many ways more convenient than traditional books. The ease with which you buy them, also ensures that a set can grow quickly. But because you have no real books, management is precisely difficult. A program for e-book management is needed and Calibre is one such program. Calibre is also free, open source and available for Linux, OS X and Windows. All versions can be downloaded from the Calibre website. Go to the website and click on the version that fits your system. Click Download calibration and choose Open or Run . Install Calibre with all the standard choices.

Calibre is there for Linux, OS X and Windows.
configuration
After the installation immediately start the configuration. The installation wizard will help in a few steps to configure the most important settings. Was the installation even in English, the wizard probably already discovered that windows is Dutch and adapted accordingly. If not, choose to Choose your language to Dutch (NL), to use Calibre in Dutch. Select at empty folder where you want the Calibre library.

Choose the right e-reader and select Generic else, which usually works fine.
Please note, this is the place to come to be all e-books, the ones on the e-reader stand plus everything that stands in the virtual bookshelf. There must therefore be enough free space, because even though one e-book only a few hundred kilobytes in size, a lot of e-books make soon a few hundred megabytes. Do you want the library to a different location, click Modify , and select the desired location. Confirm via Select Folder . In the third step, you choose the make and model of your e-reader. State which is not listed, choose Generic . This configuration is done, exit through Finish .

The first start
At the first start, is in the library one book. This is the e-book from the English manual of Calibre. With this book we begin to know the interface of Calibre. Select the e-book by clicking on it. Right Calibre shows the cover and some basic information such as the name of the author and the size of the e-book. On the left you see a series of tags or labels.

Calibre's interface looks simple, but can very much.
These are not features of the e-book, but all the books in the library. At the top of the screen you see the Calibre toolbar. This contains the most important functions of Calibre, such as adding a book, edit metadata, convert books and much more. Far right of the toolbar is often a small icon with a double arrow. This means that more functions are available to see them, click on that icon. At the bottom of the window you see the status of Calibre.

synchronize
Except for managing the e-book collection Calibre can also sync books between the PC and the e-reader. This always starts with connecting the e-reader, often with a USB cable. Confirm the e-reader that you trust the connection and connect to your PC or Mac . At the bottom of the status of Calibre you'll see a little later that there is a connection with the e-reader. Calibre, both the books in the library on the PC or Mac show, as those on the e-reader. Switching between these two is done by clicking the buttons Device or library . With Calibre library means the books on your PC or Mac. For a book of Calibre to convert the e-reader, first click on the Library , select the book, and then click Send to Device . There is an e-book on the e-reader that you want in Calibre, click Device , right click on the book and choose Add books to library . Even faster to the books to the buttons Device or library dragging.

Use Calibre as your virtual bookshelf. There are all the books and a part on the e-reader. If a book is out, you can throw it in theory, but retrieving the e-reader is often sufficient. Would you still throw books, you can do so naturally. Select the book, and then click Remove books .

Books you no longer need or never want to re-read more, you can optionally remove it from the library.
extra options
Calibre has not (as creators of software sometimes do) a simple and comprehensive interface. However, the interface can also do very complex things. Therefore, the authors have used a much better trick: right next to each button on the taskbar is also a down arrow. If you click it, you get derivative functions of the buttons on the toolbar with more features. So go behind the button Add Books , nine functions shelter also lets you add books but with additional options to sort or even whether or not to add books. A very important sub-function is always that where you have an action instead of a single e-book applies to several at once.

go the extra features hidden behind each button on the taskbar of Calibre.
subset
Calibre also has virtual libraries. A virtual library is a part of the total library, for example, all the books of one or all of the author's books that have been added in the last thirty days. The base is a search, but when you open a virtual library, Calibre also temporarily shows only those books. You can then continue searching within that subset, or select. To create a virtual library, click on Virtual Library > Create Virtual Library . Enter the virtual library name and create the associated query. The latter can formulate itself, but to get started you can click on one of the items at the bottom of the screen: artists , labels , publishers , series , Saved Searches . Confirm with OK .

With a virtual library, you can use a part of the whole collection.
Easy to use
To later open a virtual library, click Virtual library and select it at the bottom of the menu. Want to edit a virtual library, select it in the submenu Edit Virtual Library . And to delete a virtual library, select the submenu Delete Virtual Library . Very useful is the option Display virtual libraries as tabs . The virtual libraries are then displayed as tabs above the list of the library, click on a tab and you open that subset. Now you see well that when you open a virtual library, the tags in the left screen to adapt to the subset.