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Originally Posted by signum
The OP is a bit confused about the fundamental purpose of Calibre. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but Calibre offers NO readers for portable devices. It is primarily an ebook catalog tool which also means that it "just" reads a database. (I use the word "just" with tongue firmly in cheek, because there are far more uses for it than cataloging ebooks, but none include a reader for *any* portable device.) To support this primary function, there are many subsidiary functions, such as conversion from one ebook format to another, creating new ebooks, or editing/polishing older ebooks.
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The OP is not confused at all.
calibre includes a reader (has for as long as I can remember) and that reader works on any platform which calibre's library manager works on.
Any portable device that runs Windows i686/x64-compatible apps (Surface non-RT
or any laptop), or OSX (laptops still count), or anything at all if it runs linux has calibre and its viewer.
And I am sure someone, somewhere, is running ArchLinux or Gentoo in a chroot on their
Android phone, AND has installed calibre therein and is making use of it to read books.
On a more serious note, a Ubuntu phone/tablet (anyone know someone who actually uses one of these bugbears???) would have calibre in the appstore. There have been other linux tablets, but even less famous.
