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What is Calibre?

Calibre is call center recording software from HigherGround, Inc..

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Calibre to manage our eBook libraries and to edit and produce new publications. I am the organization's primary user, although others throughout the organization use it occasionally as well. It allows us to keep our documents and publications organized, coherent, and current, even with multiple sources and devices. It's pretty indispensable.
  • Reformatting publications.
  • eBook editing.
  • Publication organization.
  • I'd like to see more customization.
  • More plugins and plugin notifications.
I don't know of any other product that does what Calibre does without costing an arm and a leg. If you have an .epub that you need to convert to .mobi or .pdf or many other formats, while having the ability to customize the metadata and even the source code, Calibre is the best tool out there.
  • Saves hours of time each week.
  • Updates as we need so we're always at the industry standard.
The most obvious difference between Calibre and InDesign is the price, and Calibre certainly wins in this area. InDesign remains dominant in design, naturally, but when saving in eBook form can't convert to all formats, and has some coding quirks that can cause the outputted file to crash. Calibre makes it easy to find and fix the issues that develop out of Adobe's export functions.
Excellent documentation, both from the company and from the community of users, which is robust. Frequent updates to the software and its optional plugins.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Calibre is a niche application we use for knowledge management. Being in a technical field, we often purchase technical books for training or improving our knowledge on something. More and more, users want digital copies of these books, and they become difficult to manage from a format perspective. Calibre and it's corresponding server help us manage our digital knowledge in an accessible way that all our users can access. Calibre handles multiple ebook formats with ease, and lets users select the one that they want that is of value on their device. As a result, our users now have a centralized spot to look for a particular ebook, without having to resort to word-of-mouth management.
  • Management of multiple formats - Calibre does an excellent job handling multiple copies of digital media in different formats, making it available to users in their choice of format.
  • Robust plug-in system - Calibre has a robust plugin system that support extensibility from it's wide user base. Anything from managing metadata to integration with other applications.
  • Built in reader - Calibre has a built in reader for digital media files, enabling users to view the content before deciding to download the content to their device.
  • User Interface - Calibre's user interface is pretty out of date looking, and the icons are often confusing. If not for the text labels, it would probably be a pretty hard interface to navigate.
  • Calibre doesn't warn you about digital rights management until you try to open digital media containing it. It would nice to have that flagged ahead of time to remove the offending content and any chance of it being propagated amongst users.
  • Calibre's metadata management system is fine, but doesn't always make the best choices when choosing to preserve or replace metadata depending on what it found online. It'd be preferable to have it present both the "before" and "after" metadata options prior to replacing the metadata.
Calibre is the right tool if you have a a need for a shared knowledge management system whereby users can collectively access a shared pool of digital content. It eliminates scattered resources that your user base may have and replaces them with a single repository with version management that serves all major devices. The only situation I wouldn't suggest using library is when you have vast digital media libraries that contain DRM. Calibre doesn't handle DRM well. We've largely avoided this problem because our library is from DRM free publishers.
  • Enables technical engineers to share a pool of technical resources without needing to purchase physical copies. This makes it simpler for sharing digital media amongst users who prefer to consume it digitally.
  • Calibre has enabled us to avoid the informal and confusing lending library approach by having one centralized system where users can obtain content in their preferred format.
  • Calibre has also been seen as a value add by our employees as they see it as an investment in our knowledge resources.
FoxitPhantom PDF is not a direct 1 for 1 comparison to Calibre, but I called it out because some of what we'd use FoxitPhanton for is supplanted by Calibre. Calibre has built in meta-data editing tools, and that applies to PDFs as well, which is a huge benefit as we don't need to access multiple different applications to ensure our digital media has its metadata properly filled out. Previously, any digital media in PDF format would have required a PDF editor to update its metadata.
Not only has the customer support for Calibre been great, but the community surrounding it is great too. Users are ready and willing to jump in to help you solve a particular issue you're encountering with Calibre. As a result, I've expanded what we do with Calibre quite a bit through community support of its plugin infrastructure.
Paul Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Calibre is used personally by me. It provides an ideal platform for me to store various ebook formats, and converts them all to a common format that can be read by various digital readers.
  • Calibre supports various import format file types. After importing a particular digital ebook format, Calibre can be used to convert the ebook to a format preferred without loss of data.
  • Calibre offers a batch conversion routine. As the end user, I don't have to waste time manually converting one ebook at a time. Instead, I can select multiple ebooks and choose the "Bulk Convert" option.
  • With Calibre I have a digital library where all my ebooks are categorized and stored. I no longer have to search for their locations in my hard drive.
  • The Calibre ribbon interface could use some updating. When space is limited the ribbon menu ends with a set of arrows requiring the user to click on to drop down and see the rest of the menu. There should be an option to automatically shrink the ribbon to fit within the width of the Calibre window.
  • Calibre's Help command directs you to an online website for assistance. It would be great if there was an option to have a built-in help file that does not require an online presence.
Calibre is excellent for those who want to just use one format to store all their ebooks. This way you can just rely on one program to view your ebooks instead of needing to install various digital viewers.
  • The greatest positive impact of Calibre is the time it saves in being a virtual digital library manager. Now I don't have to waste time searching for files stored all over my digital network. I can just open Calibre and search for them all from a single location.
  • Another excellent ROI is Calibre's ability to convert various digital ebook formats into a format I prefer to store the file. Now I no longer need to have installed various digital readers to be able to enjoy reading my digital ebooks.
Calibre, like Acrobat, offers the user the ability to be able to view a digital ebook whether from online or off-line. But Acrobat can only open PDF files. Calibre can open & convert multiple digital file formats.
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