The Calibre software is considered one of the best e-book managers, due to its impressive ease of use and allowing you to do practically everything. Follow our article and learn how to install it on Ubuntu!

Caliber is completely free and open source, suitable for lay users and advanced users alike. Everyone who installs Calibre says that it really is awesome and a must-have, featuring lots of cool features and support for the most popular e-book formats.

See below the main features and advantages of Caliber:

E-book conversion between the most common formats;

Full e-book viewer;

Library for e-book reader synchronization;

Support for the most popular e-book formats, including: .epub, .CBZ, .mobi, .FB2;

Multiplatform, can be used on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X;

Save time when managing your e-book collection;

Use it everywhere and with everything;

Download news/magazines from the web;

Share and backup your library easily;

Edit the books in your collection;

Meet all your ebook needs and get support.

[...] As the caliber community continues to grow, run by book lovers, for book lovers, it is expected that it will always present itself as an alternative for people who love reading e-books and want to be in control of their own digital libraries." (GOYAL, 2009).

INSTALLATION:

1)- Open the Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T);

2)- Enter the following command below:

sudo apt install calibre

UNINSTALLATION:

1)- Open the Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T);

2)- Enter the following command below:

sudo apt-get purge calibre