Top 10 eBook Organizers

February 21, 2024 | Editor: Maria Lin
View eBook Organizers (Managers) for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Online
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Windows PC
The most powerful and easy-to-use book organizer. It is an ideal tool for book-lovers, collectors, students, academicians, schools and business libraries. Alfa Ebooks Manager allows to organize your electronic and/or print books in a single e-Library. You can quickly scan your computer for book files, parse metadata, add covers, tags and custom fields, update book data from the Web and even view books in 3D.
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Windows PCMac OSLinux
calibre is an open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management, E-book conversion, Syncing to e-book reader devices, Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form, Comprehensive e-book viewer, Content server for online access to your book collection
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Online
LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for book lovers. LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of books: books you own, books you've read, books you'd like to read, books you've lent out ... whatever grouping you'd like. Available in many languages.
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Mac OS
Catalog your books, movies, music, software, toys, tools, electronics, & video games. Import all your stuff onto your digital shelves using your Mac’s iSight webcam, our wireless barcode scanner, or your keyboard.
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Online
StoryGraph is the all-in-one platform for your bookish needs. It's a fully-featured Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads. Storygraph helps to track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics and themes. Organise, search, and filter books by your tags and share curated lists with friends.
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iOSAndroidWindows PCMac OS
Organize your book collection in no time at all. Download full book details and cover art. Just enter ISBNs or scan barcodes. Browse your book database in cover flow. Sort lists any way you want. Find books quickly and easily.Organize your book database and wish list. Never buy dupes again.
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Windows PC
Kindlian is a cool add-on for your Kindle. It's a desktop app that allows to view and manage Kindle books and collections. When you launch Kindlian, it scans your Kindle, parses book metadata and displays a beautiful e-library. You can easily move and copy books between collections with mouse drag and drop. It also converts other book formats to Kindle's MOBI
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iOSAndroidWindows PCMac OSLinux
Unique and innovative library management, inventory and database solutions for collectors, booksellers, schools, churches, libraries, and other organizations all over the world. Lets you feed in a list of ISBNs, UPCs or barcode scans. Readerware then does the rest, automatically searching the web and cataloging your books, music and videos. Readerware can merge information from multiple web sites to build the most complete database possible, with cover art. Automatically and effortlessly.
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iOSAndroidOnline
Upload and organize your eBooks regardless of format. Integrated eBook reader to read and sync your bookmarks, notes and highlights across all devices.
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Windows PC
Booknizer is a powerful library organizer for books in any format. The program works with paper, electronic (EPUB, MOBI, PRC, PDF, FB2) and audio books (MP3, M4b, WMA etc.). Booknizer will synchronize electronic books between your computer and e-book reader device (like Amazon Kindle, Barnes&Noble Nook, Sony Reader, etc.).
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Windows PC
Amaze your friends and show them your collection of books! Collecting books is trendy! All My Books will load all book information from online sources in a matter of seconds. All you have to type to get complete information about a book is to fill one of the fields - book title, author name or ISBN.
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Windows PC
BookCAT is discontinued. BookCAT is a powerful book collector database program which will help you catalog a book collection of any size. BookCAT is used by book-lovers, schools, churches, clubs, and business libraries. Using BookCAT you can quickly catalog your books by downloading information from the Internet. BookCAT will help you track what you have in your library, where it is (including books out on loan) and the total value of your collection.
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iOS
BookBuddy is a powerful book management app that gives you access to your entire book catalog, anywhere. Using BookBuddy is fun and easy, allowing you to quickly find any book in your library, share your favorite books, and keep track of borrowed and lent books
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Online
Our library management app caters exclusively to home and private libraries. Our online software lets you create multiple libraries, catalog books, movies, and video games, lets you create tags, leave notes, import/export, and much more! Libib has created the best book, movie, and video game cataloging system available online!
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Windows PC
eXtreme Books Manager is probably the most advanced Book, eBook, AudioBook collection manager around. It can import all Book Information from many specialized websites. Just write the Book Title or Scan the ISBN Barcode!
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iOSAndroidWindows PCMac OS
Adobe Digital Editions software offers an engaging way to view and manage eBooks and other digital publications. Use it to download and purchase digital content, which can be read both online and offline. Transfer copy-protected eBooks from your personal computer to other computers or devices. Organize your eBooks into a custom library and annotate pages. Digital Editions also supports industry-standard eBook formats, including PDF/A and EPUB.
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Android
My Library is a simple application that helps you to manage your books.google.com library. My Library main features: connects to your google library account, utilizes the phone's camera to scan a barcode, adds/removes books from your google books shelves, enables you to download pdf of books in public domain, creates a shelf that shows personalized recommendations to you, support for tablet devices
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Windows PCMac OSLinux
Lucidor is a simple tool for reading, managing and organizing your eBooks within your own personal bookcase. It supports ePub and OPDS catalog files. You can search for eBooks online and download them right into the application. A unique feature Lucidor has is the ability to have multiple eBooks open at one time. It does this via it’s tabbed interface, which is much like a Web browser. Lucidor even supports themes. There is also a search bar for finding specific keywords or phrases within your content.
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iOSMac OS
Book Crawler is your personal portable book database for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac Desktop. It allows to catalog and share your favorite book collections in one app. Book Crawler was designed to provide a real-time solution for the avid reader who requires a powerful and intuitive database for logging, searching, and organizing publications and authors of interest. ISBN barcode scanning, customized search parameters, local library availability queries (powered by WorldCat), book previews/cover art (powered by Google Books), location-aware, and book reviews (powered by Goodreads) make this app a must have for the serious book lover! It’s a great tool for library professionals, teachers, book collectors, and students.
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Android
An open source book cataloguing application (source on github). Books can be added manually, by ISBN, or barcode. Remember to backup and export your existing catalogue before you upgrade. Features include: sorting by author (last name), title, series, etc, user-defined sort and list styles, search Amazon, Google Books, goodreads and LibraryThing for data, searching, thumbnails (download, gallery or camera), loaning books, goodreads synchronization, export and Backup, bookshelves (books can be on multiple shelves)
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Online
​VitalSource Bookshelf is the preferred and most used e-textbook delivery platform in the world of higher education. It lets you access your books from the the desktop application, mobile app (iPhone) or online. You can add highlights and notes to your content and search through them as well as the content of your eBooks.
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Windows PC
Book Organizer Deluxe is a Windows software that allows book collectors, hobbyists, book clubs, small private or public libraries to organize, catalog, and manage book collections on their PCs. Organizer is intuitive and easy to use for the beginner, at the same moment feature-rich and powerful enough to satisfy the most advanced users.
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Windows PCMac OSLinux
BookONO is a free e-book manager and reader (PDFs and EPubs fully supported) designed as a compliment to Calibre. It is written in C++ using the Qt5 Toolkit. It is different from Calibre in that it makes a few different design decisions than Calibre, for instance it does not attempt to put all your books in its own library or change their names. Where Calibre attempts to take complete control over your books, BookONO gives you control over your books. BookONO further attempts to take a different direction in terms of its UI, providing a more user-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing experience than Calibre.
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Linux
Tellico is a software application for organizing your book collection. Tellico allows you to enter your collection in a catalogue database, saving many different properties like title, author, etc. Different views of your collection can be shown. The data is saved in XML, a text format which makes for easy parsing, portability, and styling. It will run on any platform which KDE supports, most commonly Linux. Tellico is licensed under the GNU General Public License, giving you the freedom to modify and distribute the source code.
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iOS
Imagine holding your comic library in your hands; with Comic Zeal, you don't have to imagine. Your iPad is the perfect device for reading comics, but reading comics and manga isn't like reading books. You need a specialist app that can organize your comics by series, don't look through hundreds to find the one you want.
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Mac OS
eBook Manager is a fast and easy to use application for organizing e-books on your computer and for transferring them from and to your Kindle e-readers. It understands .mobi, .azw and .azw3 file formats and extracts and shows book metadata like author, title, description, publisher, language, comment and cover image. Books can be organized to collections in the library stored on your computer (but this information is not transferred to the reader).
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iOS
iBouquiniste is an ebook reader like none you've seen before. This app supports FB2, EPUB and TXT formats and offers adjustable fonts, paragraph indents, paper type and more. iBouquiniste gives you a reading experience that's as close as you can get to reading a real book, and it even lets you share your favorite books via email. Click "...More" to learn why you should download this App today!
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Mac OS
Ehon is a digital comic book and ebook management program for your Mac. Extremely intuitive, Ehon simplifies your digital library management and lets you focus on what really matters, your books. Painlessly import all of your digital comics, manga and ebooks and let Ehon do all the work for you. When it comes to managing a large number of elements, a well thought user interface really matters and Ehon has been specifically thought to make things really easy.
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iOS
Quickly catalog, filter, sort, and manage all of the books you own. View information, cover, and add personal details. Hardcover, softcover, eBooks, and more. Uses barcode scanning, database search and manual barcode entry.
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Mac OS
The ultimate user experience for reading and managing your comic collection. ComicNerd fits seamlessly with all of your other favorite Mac apps and helps you easily read and manage all of your comics (.cbr, .cbz, .rar, .zip) in one place. ComicNerd's reader is designed to be fast and easy to use. For users with MacBooks or the Apple Magic TrackPad, you can three-finger swipe to go to the next or previous page.

Latest news about eBook Organizers


20.11.23. Calibre 7.0 adds innovative notes feature, audio EPUB support



Kovid Goyal, the creator of Calibre, has unveiled Calibre 7.0, the latest stable release of the widely acclaimed cross-platform, open-source e-book management software. With this update, users gain the capability to store notes enriched with links, images, and formatted text for elements such as authors, series, publishers, and tags. Calibre 7.0 revolutionizes the e-book landscape by introducing support for "Audio EPUB" books, featuring pre-recorded voices reading the text, although the developer acknowledges potential issues with this feature on Linux systems due to patented codecs. Additionally, the release addresses a longstanding user request by allowing seamless storage and management of "data" files associated with a book, making the process of adding extra data files straightforward through a simple selection and right-click action.


2023. Alfa Ebooks Manager is available in Microsoft Store



Popular ebook collection software Alfa Ebooks Manager is now available in Microsoft's Windows Store. It brings two advantages for the users. First - is easy installation with one click (the drawback is that you can't change the installation folder, but if you need it - you can still download the regular setup file from Alfa's website). The second, and more import, this guarantees the security of the software because every program is tested by Microsoft specialists before adding to the store. In particular they require the strong security certificate SHA256 to be applied. Taking into consideration Calibre's recent security flaws this is an important step for Alfa.


2023. Google Play Books app adds new book management feature



Google Play Books app has recently introduced a significant enhancement to its redesigned library management system, with the aim of making the organization of your book collection simpler. One notable improvement is the ability to handle multiple books at the same time, allowing users to easily select and manage numerous titles together. Now, actions like adding books to shelves, marking them as finished, or removing downloaded copies from devices can be done in bulk. To aid in efficient book discovery, Google has implemented various filtering options. Users can now filter books by genre, author, reading age (particularly beneficial for children's books), and family library status. These filters make it effortless to quickly identify specific books based on personal preferences.


2023. Libib adds Patron freeze to prevent self-checkouts/holds



Cloud Library Management software Libib has introduced a new feature called Patron Freeze for Pro accounts. Previously, in Libib Pro accounts self-checkouts were available through the library's published platform or a kiosk. However, ensuring that patrons didn't exceed their item limits or place excessive holds relied solely on the honor system. The only way to address this issue was by deleting the patron entirely, which resulted in the removal of their patron histories and current checkouts/holds—something undesired. Now, Libib offers library managers the ability to freeze a patron's account. If a library manager chooses to freeze a patron, that patron will lose the ability to independently check out items or place holds. Instead, when they try to check out an item, they will receive a notification indicating that their account is currently frozen. To facilitate easy identification, any frozen patrons will be visually distinguished with a blue striped background when viewing the list of patrons.


2023. CLZ Books allows to use multiple folder levels



Collectorz.com has unveiled a significant update for its CLZ Books mobile app, introducing a remarkable feature that enhances browsing and filtering capabilities for your book collection. This new update allows users to utilize multiple levels of folders, unlike the previous version which only supported one level. Previously, you could only organize books using Author folders, Publisher folders, Subject folders, Location folders, and so on. However, with the latest version, you have the freedom to combine folder options. For example, you can now employ Publisher folders and within each of them, have Author folders. Additionally, the app now includes a selection of pre-loaded multi-level folder favorites that are both enjoyable and practical, such as Publisher/Author, Publication Year/Author, and Purchase Year/Store, among others. To utilize the multiple levels of folders, simply choose one of the folder favorites that contains multiple fields, like Publisher/Author. By selecting a Publisher folder, you can navigate to the corresponding Author folders for that specific Publisher. Furthermore, tapping on an Author folder will display books from that specific combination of Publisher and Author.


2023. Calibre improves metadata editor



Calibre has released a new version 6.17, which brings several new features and enhancements. One notable addition is the support for WOFF format fonts and CID keyed fonts in font subsetting, resulting in further reduction of file sizes. Additionally, when data files are present, the book details now include a convenient link to open the data files folder. The template language has been upgraded with various functions that allow users to query the extra files associated with a book. In the Edit book feature, users can now compress images in the WEBP format. The comments editor has also been improved, offering buttons to easily create links to data files and folders when inserting a link. Furthermore, users can now display the id, formats, and path columns through Preferences, allowing for more customization. A new button has been added to the trash bin, enabling users to easily clear its contents. Lastly, the metadata editor now utilizes a dedicated editor with a preview option for custom columns that store Markdown formatted text.


2023. Ebook organizer Readerware has updated it's mobile app



Readerware Mobile 4.31, the latest major version, has been released for Android, iPhone, and iPad devices. It is now available for download from the Google Play Store for Android phones and tablets, as well as the Apple App Store for iPhones and iPads. The development team has completely rewritten Readerware Mobile Sync to comply with the new policies set by the app stores. Consequently, Readerware Mobile 4.31 is designed to sync exclusively with Readerware 4.31, and syncing with Readerware 3 is no longer supported. To address compatibility issues arising from Google's changes to the Android file system and security, Readerware Mobile now functions smoothly on Android 11 and newer versions. Additionally, the updated version of Readerware Mobile incorporates support for new device densities and image sizes.


2023. Managing your home book library with Excel: a practical approach



As an book lover, you may find yourself amassing a sizeable collection of books at home. Keeping track of all those books can be a daunting task, but fear not! One tool that can come to your rescue is Microsoft Excel. Yes, that's right - the spreadsheet software that's commonly used for budgeting and data analysis can also be utilized for managing your home book library, and the best part is that it's free (if you already own it). Let's explore how you can use Excel to organize and keep track of your beloved books. ***


2023. What is personal magazine management software?



Magazine management software is a valuable tool for a variety of users who need to manage an electronic database of journals. This can include publishers, editors, librarians, researchers, and collectors who deal with large collections of magazines on a regular basis. This software provides a convenient and efficient way to organize, track, and access digital magazines, making it an essential tool for those who need to manage a large collection of magazines. ***


2023. Book Collector adds 3 completely new data fields and 4 new sync fields



The new version of Book Collector (v23) has added 3 completely new data fields and 4 new cloud-sync fields. The new fields (Signed By, Dust Jacket and Number Line) were added to all of our book database solutions (mobile, web and desktop). Also, you can now finally sync these existing Book Collector fields through the CLZ Cloud to the CLZ Books mobile app (Cover Artist, Foreword Author, Ghostwriter and Box Set). The similar updates have also been released for the CLZ Books mobile apps and Book Connect web-based software so all 7 fields now nicely sync between all of them.


2023. Calibre now allows to read books aloud with more voices



New Calibre's update brings more voices to Read Aloud feature. It works only on Windows because uses Microsoft speech subsystem. When Read aloud is speaking, you can make the control bar translucent so that words under the bar are visible. There is a number of other new features. Spell check dialog now allows Up and Down arrow keys to work regardless of focus. Edit book feature now allows automatic fixing of various simple CSS errors. And File browser allows using keyboard shortcuts to re-order the spine. Also from the library you can now open the book folder easily. Add by ISBN feature now allows adding using identifiers other than ISBN as well. The update is bundled Qt to 6.4 this means calibre on macOS is now only supported on Big Sur and newer.


2022. Ebook catalog software Calibre 6.3 fine-tunes full text search



In several updated Calibre developers added some new improvements and bug fixes for full-text search, introduced in version 6. They added a button to re-index a book - useful if the book's contents have been changed outside calibre. Search queries start supporting quoting using "docstrings" for easier escaping. The search now ignores soft hyphens when extracting searchable text from books (though you will have to re-index your library to take advantage of this). The e-book viewer now allows searching for nearby words using a new "Nearby words" search mode. New fts_search and fts_index commands allow to perform full text searching from the command line.


2022. eBook management software Collectorz adds vertical book cards



Vertical Cards, recently introduced in Collectorz.com Book Collector mobile apps have become instantly very popular, so now they are available in all five Connect flavors too: the Card View. And because Connect already had a view called “Card View”, the developers renamed the old view to “Horizontal Cards” and named the new one “Vertical Cards”. Here’s how to switch to new “Vertical Cards” view: on the toolbar above your collection list, click the 2nd button from the left, called “Vertical Cards”.


2022. Book collection software Collectorz.com added Month folders, Cover-paste feature



Book collection software Collectorz.com has added some new features. In the Cover tab of your Edit screen you can now paste an image from the clipboard. A quick popup will appear with the pasted image, asking you if you want to past it as front or back cover. In addition to existing “Year” folder options (e.g. for “Added Year”, “Purchase Year”, etc… ) the developers added two more “granular” folder options. You can now folder by “Month” (e.g. “Purchase Month”) or by the exact day (e.g. “Added Date”). These Month and Date folder options are now available for all your date fields. The final and smallest tweak: the “Move to Other Collection” command is now available for one specific items, from the toolbar above its Details Panel. The developers also did a small re-design to the screen that pops up for selecting which collection to move to.


2022. Online home library software Libib allows to edit individual fields fast



Libib has introduced a new additional way to edit individual fields on an item. Each item now displays a pencil icon which will bring up a quick edit menu. This menu is completely accessible through the keyboard; no need to use the mouse to click on anything once it’s up. Begin searching for the field name that you want to edit, and the list of options automatically reduce down to your choice. Using quick edit feature to change the title of an itemALT. Click enter on the keyboard to select the first option, or press the down-arrow key to select what you want. Your cursor is automatically placed in the input box, and you can start typing. Hit enter to save, or tab to the save button and hit enter. Once it is saved, you are brought right back to the searchable fields, where you can immediately begin editing another field. When you’re done, simply hit escape on your keyboard to close out.


2022. Personal library software All My Books removed all Amazon integrations



The new version All My Books 3.2 has removed all Amazon integration due to an Amazon's lawyer request. Instead of it the program added support of OpenLibrary.org for the book details download. Besides the developers improved "Get large cover" function, added ISBNdb.com support as a backup source for searching by ISBNs, improved Goodreads support for the book details, optimized images loading in the "Select book" dialog (lazyload), fixed import book details from bol.com, added several alternative HTML templates for the book details - "Big Blue Green", "Collector Black", "Sidelined Gray", "This One's Brown". "Table of Contents" field is now displayed as a bulleted list in the book details area.


2021. Calibre added support for the 11th Gen Kindle Paperwhite 5



Ebook management software Calibre has just added support for the brand new Kindle Paperwhite and you can now manage your e-readers collection when having it plugged into your PC or MAC. Furthermore, this release adds support for EPUB 3 landmarks in the Set Semantics tool under the Edit Book component and moves the option that allows Calibre to recognize numbers when sorting from Preferences > Tweaks to Preferences > Behavior. Calibre is one of the best ebook management software in the world, millions of users use the program. It can do some powerful stuff, such as fetch missing metadata on ebooks that you downloaded from the internet, such as book covers. It has an ebook viewer, which can edit titles, can download magazines from the internet and import your collection of books from your PC right to the e-reader, at the click of a button. Calibre


2021. Book management software Booknizer 10 gets a new engine, quick filters for authors, group operations



The new major update of the book management software Booknizer 10 brings a number of significant improvements thanks to the new internal engine. Most of the program's old code was completely rewritten to get rid of bugs and include modern optimizations. In previous versions of Booknizer, the quick filter menu always referred to books. New Booknizer can apply quick filters to authors, too. When the "Authors" tab is active, the menu switches to the authors view automatically. In the new version you can move the mouse cursor over the list of covers / photos and select an item by clicking on a checkbox that appears. This enables Group Operations, allowing to change / update multiple items at once. This is different from previous version, where you needed to enable Group Operations separately. Besides, it added support for picture download via HTTPS, quick search of highlighted phrase on Google, warnings in Add Book tool that a certain book is already in the library, autocomplete feature in drop-down fields. The new publication year field can hold the year of a particular edition and the total cost of your collection is now shown in the statistics window (according to the price entered or downloaded).


2021. Book collection software for Linux Tellico gets Graphical chart reports



KDE-based collection software Tellico 3.4 is available, with several new features, updated data sources, bug fixes and build changes. New data sources for UPCitemdb, TVmaze, and Numista were added. Batch searching was added for ISBNdb. The Group View can now be sorted by fields other than the title. The MultiFetcher data source was improved to “daisy-chain” results from multiple sources, merging them together. For example, a UPC search with UPCitemdb could be connected such that the result has additional information from TMDb. Entries can now be filtered using minimum or maximum image size. Importing from the Collectorz software family was added. Graphical chart reports were added (requires compiling with QtCharts). Overall, the entry updating and merging was also improved to both make a better search request as well as match existing results more efficiently.


2020. Calibre 5 adds highlighting to ebook viewer



Cross-platform eBook management, reading, and editing software Calibre saw a new release. There has been a lot of work on the calibre E-book viewer. It now supports Highlighting. The highlights can be colors, underlines, strikethrough, etc. and have added notes. All highlights can be both stored in EPUB files for easy sharing and centrally in the calibre library for easy browsing. Additionally, the E-book viewer now supports both vertical and right-to-left text. calibre has also moved to using Python 3. This is because Python 2 was end-of-lifed this year. This should be completely transparent to calibre users, the only caveat being that some third party calibre plugins have not yet been ported to Python 3 and therefore will not work in calibre 5

Editor: Maria Lin
Maria Lin, is a seasoned content writer who has contributed to numerous tech portals, including Mashable and bookrunch, as a guest author. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of California, where her research predominantly concentrated on mobile apps, software, AI and cloud services. With a deep passion for reading, Maria is particularly drawn to the intersection of technology and books, making book tech a subject of great interest to her. During her leisure time, she indulges in her love for cooking and finds solace in a good night's sleep. You can contact Maria Lin via email maria@bookrunch.com