Top 10: Free ebook organizers

2020. Bookshlf launches an app to curate and share your favorite digital content



Bookshlf has developed a novel method for people to recommend media — whether it's books, music, videos, articles, podcasts, or even tweets — to their friends and the broader community. The main focus here is curation. On Bookshlf, users can arrange their recommendations into various “shelves” based on topics and then conveniently add links using the iOS Share menu (or by directly adding them within the app). You can also share links to your shelves through social media.


2019. Calibre adds support for the Nook Glowlight Plus 7.8



Calibre has just announced that they have official support for the new Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight Plus. This means when you plug the e-reader into your PC via the USB cable, it will now be recognized. This new is good news for anyone who uses the software and has their own collection of ebooks, comics, magazines or newspapers they want to read on their Nook.

2014. Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 adds accessibility support



Adobe has released Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, its free application for managing ebooks on a PC or Mac. It now features accessibility support for the first time and incorporates the latest mobile reader technology for syncing ebooks between computers and mobile devices. The major update in Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 is its enhanced accessibility features, making ebooks easier to read. These include support for high-contrast screens and assistive software such as Window-Eyes (Windows), VoiceOver (Mac), JAWS and NVDA. Version 2.0 also includes the latest mobile reader technology like Vendor ID, Bookseller ID and Japanese text, allowing users to log in using Vendor or Bookseller IDs (such as Google or Barnes & Noble) to read content purchased from these vendors. Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 is a free download for PCs and Macs. A compatible EPUB-capable eBook Reader is required to transfer book purchases using the program – a complete list of compatible devices can be found here.


2013. LibraryThing offers free accounts



Following Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads, online book organizer LibraryThing (which typically charges users for a subscription to manage more than 200 books) decided to offer some complimentary memberships and enhance customer retention. The service is giving away free annual accounts to everyone who registers before the end of Sunday. After a year, your books will remain accessible, but you'll need to purchase a subscription—pay-what-you-want—to add more than 200 books. LibraryThing is an online service designed to help users catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Since everyone catalogs collectively, LibraryThing also connects users with similar books and provides recommendations for what to read next, among other features.


2011. Kindlian - a new free ebook organizer for managing Kindle library



Company Alfa.NetSoft, renowned for its popular desktop ebook organizer Alfa Ebooks Management, has today launched another excellent software - Kindlian. It is a great add-on for your Kindle. This desktop application enables you to view and manage Kindle books and collections. Kindlian allows you to visualize your Kindle library, manage collections, search, sort book lists, create book ratings and edit book metadata (title, author, publisher, publication date, ISBN) in MOBI, PDF and even MP3 files. You can also edit book data for TXT files and with Google Images integration, you can update book covers. When you start Kindlian, it scans your Kindle, parses book metadata and presents a visually appealing e-library. You can choose from various layouts: Table View, ideal for managing books; List View, suitable for viewing book ratings and descriptions; and Thumb View, perfect for displaying book covers. You can swiftly sort and search books in any view. Best of all, the software is free.


2011. Alfa Ebooks Manager launches the Free ebook manager


Alfa Ebooks Manager 2.0 on the fully rebuild platform have been released today. The new features include multiple genres per book, tags (that can be assigned to books), custom fields in the book card (up to 5 text custom fields), universal search, new Edit Books tool (that allows to edit almost any parameter in multiple books at once, including authors, tags, custom fields...), File Parser (allows to retrieve ISBN, parse metadata and create cover thumbnails for the ebooks that are already in the database). Besides, Alfa developers introduced the new pricing model. From now they provide Free version of Alfa Ebooks Manager. They say, the free version will be a good solution for book lovers, that want to create a beautiful e-Library of books that they have read or want to read.


2009. Video: Calibre - Linux/Ubuntu book collector



Calibre is a new free book collection software for Linux Ubuntu. It was started in 2006 by developer Kovid Goyal as a Linux application for converting different ebook formats to LRF - the format used by SONY reader and was called libprs500. This converter became wildly popular and was picked up and used by various publishing houses and content digitizers to produce the first generation of books in the LRF format. And in 2008 Kovid Goyal decided to transform the program to the full-featured e-book collection manager with graphical interface and renamed to Clibre. Using Calibre you can manage books, magazines, comics. Calibre is available in the Ubuntu Software Center, but before installation check that you downloaded the latest version (0.6). To install Calibre on Ubuntu and Linux Mint you need to execute the command line command that you can find in the Calibre for Linux manual. ***