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- <h1 class="calibre1" id="introduction">Introduction</h1>
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- <p class="calibre2"><a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/">Calibre</a> is an <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">open source</a> e-book management tool. Simply
- put, calibre allows you to organize your e-book collection, convert e-books
- to various formats, and interact with your e-book reader, all in an
- intuitive and friendly manner. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows ΓÇô XP,
- Vista, and 7 ΓÇô as well as Apple's OS X (and various flavors of Linux. It was
- created by Kovid Goyal, who still leads its development. A number people
- around the world, including myself, contribute to calibre's development.
- (Throughout this guide and the online docs you will see 'calibre' instead of
- 'Calibre'. That's how Kovid named his program, so that's what we call it.)</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">The purpose of calibre is to simplify management of your e-book
- collection. It does this in several ways:</p>
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- <li class="calibre4">Calibre organizes your collection as a database so you can find the
- book you want when you need it. Calibre easily handles any size of
- collection, with a variety of tools to manipulate e-book metadata ΓÇô title,
- author, rating, etc..</li>
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- <li class="calibre4">Calibre converts between multiple e-book formats.</li>
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- <li class="calibre4">Calibre supports a growing number of e-book readers, including Kindle,
- Sony, Nook, and many others.</li>
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- <p class="calibre2">Calibre is composed of three functional groups:</p>
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- <li class="calibre4">The graphical user interface (GUI). This is the typical mode of
- interacting with your database. All of calibre's principal functionality
- is available through the GUI.</li>
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- <li class="calibre4">A collection of command line (CLI) utilities for advanced calibre
- operations. For example, the command line tools are used by the <a href="http://manybooks.net/">ManyBooks</a> service to convert on an as-needed
- basis.</li>
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- <li class="calibre4">An e-book reading application accessed from the GUI.</li>
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