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Alfa Ebooks Manager vs Readarr

November 23, 2025
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Alfa Ebooks Manager
Powerful, yet beautiful and easy-to-use book organizer. Suitable for book lovers, collectors, students, teachers, schools and business libraries. Allows to organize e-books and printed books in a single digital library. Includes a built-in reader, audiobook player, format converter, metadata editor and a web server for local network access. Enables to quickly find books, including by full-text search. It's highly customizable - you can add custom fields, build a genre tree, add tags. Integrates with Amazon, Google Books and other websites to update book metadata. You can even view books in 3D.
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Readarr
Readarr is a ebook collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new books from your favorite authors. Readarr project has been retired but the code is still available.
Alfa Ebooks Manager vs Readarr in our news:

2010. Alfa Ebooks Manager 1.8 adds LRF, FB2, EPUB support, new beautiful e-library views



The developers of Alfa Ebooks Manager call their new software version "The new generation of ebook management software". They have implemented a lot of new features and dramatically improved the software performance. Here are the main new features: the new Table View with multiple sort and filter options (ideal for searching and organizing books),  the new scalable List and Thumbnail views (that are perfect for e-library browsing and demonstrating), improved 3D and Wall views), customizable thumbnail size, new Scan tool, that works faster and can parse ebook metadata,  File Manager that allows to copy, move and rename ebook files, the new Retrieve ISBN tool that supports PDF, EPUB, LRF, FB2, CHM, new Web Update tool that can be used to add books from the book sites, Google Images integration that allows you quickly update book covers, author pics and other images in the e-Library

Author: Maria Lin
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