What is Calibre Companion?
Calibre Companion is three applications in one: a superb device-based calibre library organizer, a high-performance WiFi-based calibre device emulator, and a client to access your calibre library using calibre's content server or in the cloud: [Android and iOS]: Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive; [Android]: Box, Amazon Cloud Drive, Google Drive (
warning about Google Drive).
CC DOES NOT INCLUDE A READER APP
- The first: CC is a calibre library organizer for your device.
Once you put books on your device using one of the connection methods described below you can:- sort, group, and search for books by their metadata (author, tags, series, rating, dates, custom columns, etc.)
- see book lists by cover or by list.
- view details of a book's metadata.
- mark books read and sync this information with calibre.
- You can launch your book reader application to read a book ([Android] works with most reader applications. One exception is Amazon Kindle for Android).
- The second: Calibre Companion supports connecting to calibre over WiFi and be detected by calibre as a device, providing excellent integration with calibre.
- All calibre device operations are supported, including sending books and metadata, cover thumbnails, deleting books, sending news, and plugins like Reading List.
- [Android] You can specify where different book formats are to go on your device, e.g., epubs in one folder, pdfs in another, and mobis in a third.
- Calibre Companion updates the metadata for the books on every connect as a wireless device, ensuring the information for your books displayed in Calibre Companion is the same as the information displayed in calibre.
- Most setup is on the device, making it easy for different users in the same household to have different device configurations, or to use more than one computer running calibre.
- The third: Calibre Companion can access your library via calibre’s content server or the cloud.
Using just your device, you can:- Browse all of your library, viewing the books and their metadata.
- See which books are already on your device.
- Download books from your library to your device.
- Cloud providers currently supported: [Android and iOS] Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. [Android] Box, Amazon Cloud Drive, Google Drive, and a local folder on SD card.
Notes:
- You must also already use calibre to manage your library of ebooks. CC gets books only from calibre.
- By default, CC imports the book file (and its metadata) into your device. If you don’t have much storage on your device, it is recommended that you use CC as a catalogue/database instead or only import the few that you are going to read soon. This is particularly recommended for users with comics, which tend to have very large book files.
- Click here to see CC's FAQ