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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
The benefit of it is mainly to have a central library of all your books, instantly knowing which are on your reader right now (as soon as you plug in the reader, a new column appears in the library to show which books are on the device),
and of course, the far most important to me, being able to convert books from all sources and (with help from Apprentice Alf) get rid of DRM.
Also nice, it does offer good sorting/searching.
You can have it download new covers too - useful since some books, for whatever reason, don't have the cover that is shown in the shop.
I regularly buy books from Kobo and Amazon. I read them on my inkBook which is from neither.
(Note: I do have to install Adobe Digital Editions and an older Kindle for PC version to actually GET the books. But once I have the file, Calibre does the rest.)
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This.
I use Calibre for backing up my books (several stores I've purchased from in the past have gone belly up), for managing my library (I have thousands of books from many different places, without Calibre I'd have no clue at all what I have), for converting (I only read on my Kindles, but thanks to Calibre and Apprentice Alf I can shop wherever I want, Kobo and Google Play among others), for editing my books (most of them are formatted in ways I dislike). I would not have gotten into ebooks at all if not for Calibre. It's invaluable for me.