Convert, Edit, and Organize your eBook Library
March 13, 2020

Convert, Edit, and Organize your eBook Library

Julia Dye | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Calibre

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.
  • 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.

Do you think Calibre delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Calibre's feature set?

Yes

Did Calibre live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Calibre go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Calibre again?

Yes

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.