Top 10: Free ebook organizers

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



Bookshlf has introduced a fresh approach for individuals to share recommendations about various forms of media, such as books, music, videos, articles, podcasts, or even tweets, with their friends and the global audience. The primary focus is on curation. Within Bookshlf, users have the ability to categorize their recommendations into distinct "shelves" based on specific topics, and effortlessly incorporate links by utilizing the iOS Share menu (or by directly adding them within the application). Additionally, it is possible to 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 introduced Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, a free software application designed for organizing ebooks on both PC and Mac platforms. This release marks the inclusion of accessibility support for the first time, along with the incorporation of cutting-edge mobile reader technology, facilitating seamless ebook management between computers and mobile devices. The standout feature in Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 is its enhanced accessibility functionality, which ensures a more convenient reading experience for ebooks. This encompasses provisions for high-contrast screens and assistive software such as Window-Eyes (Windows), VoiceOver (Mac), JAWS, and NVDA. Furthermore, Version 2.0 encompasses the latest advancements in mobile reader technology, including Vendor ID, Bookseller ID, and Japanese text support. These additions enable users to sign in using Vendor or Bookseller IDs from platforms like Google or Barnes & Noble, granting access to purchased content from these vendors. Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 can be downloaded free of charge for both PC and Mac systems. To transfer book purchases utilizing the program, users need a compatible EPUB-capable eBook Reader. A comprehensive list of compatible devices can be found here.


2013. LibraryThing offers free accounts



Following Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads, LibraryThing, an online book organizer known for its membership fees for adding more than 200 books, has decided to make some changes to enhance customer loyalty. To show their appreciation, LibraryThing is offering free year-long accounts to new users who sign up before the end of Sunday. After a year, users' existing book catalogs will remain intact, but a pay-what-you-want membership will be required to add more than 200 books. LibraryThing serves as an online platform that simplifies the process of cataloging books, providing users with the ability to access their catalogs from anywhere, including mobile devices. Through collective cataloging, LibraryThing also fosters connections between individuals with similar book collections, offers suggestions for future reading, and facilitates various book-related interactions.


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



Alfa.NetSoft, a renowned company recognized for its popular desktop ebook organizer, Alfa Ebooks Management, has recently unveiled a new software offering called Kindlian. This impressive application serves as a valuable add-on for Kindle users, providing a desktop platform to conveniently view and manage their Kindle books and collections. With Kindlian, users gain access to a range of features such as visualizing their Kindle library, managing collections, conducting searches, sorting book lists, creating book ratings, and editing book metadata (including title, author, publisher, publish date, ISBN) for MOBI, PDF, and even MP3 files. The software also allows for editing book data for TXT files and incorporates Google Images integration to facilitate easy updating of book covers. Upon launching Kindlian, it automatically scans the connected Kindle device, parses book metadata, and presents a visually appealing e-library. Users have the flexibility to choose from various layouts, including Table view for efficient book management, List View for browsing book ratings and descriptions, and Thumb View for a visually pleasing display of book covers. Additionally, Kindlian offers swift sorting and searching capabilities across all available views. The best part is that this remarkable software is available free of charge, adding even more value to Kindle users' reading experience.


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. ***