Alfa Ebooks Manager at 50% discount

Kalari · 08-17-2012, 03:09 AM

At www.bitsdujour.com/software/alfa-ebooks-manager/ only today.

angelyne · 09-25-2016, 11:49 AM

It's discounted again until the end of September

JSWolf · 09-25-2016, 01:13 PM

What makes this worth paying for when I have Calibre?

bgalbrecht · 09-26-2016, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

What makes this worth paying for when I have Calibre?

Do you use Calibre to track your paper books as well? It looks like the Alfa Ebook Manager also tracks paper books. If it can support a OCR scanner, like a Cue-Cat or some phone app, it might be worth it if you have a lot of paper books too. From the comments, it can import from Calibre.

Unlike Calibre, it appear that AEM is windows-only.

angelyne · 10-01-2016, 09:27 AM

I started a project for myself to download and catalogue all the books I had purchased from Audible. There are several hundreds. I started a Calibre library to house this collection, but got frustrated because I wasn't able to pull metadata from Audible, so had to classify them all as various paperback versions. What's the point of obsessively cataloguing a collection if you are using the wrong information.

So that's where Alfa comes in. It supports audiobooks natively and pulls data from Audible. That's the main reason I bought it. The full version is pretty full featured, and support seems responsive. I asked for an "open to file folder option" in the forum and had it less than one week later.

However, after having worked quite a lot with both software, Calibre still has the upper-hand when it comes to bulk operations. If you have a massive ebook collection, you are probably better off with Calibre.

Alfa does have a (very) bare-bone free version you can download, if you are curious about what it does.

I can confirm it does import from various sources

08-17-2012, 03:09 AM	#1
Kalari Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: India Device: PRS-300, Onyx Boox M92	Alfa Ebooks Manager at 50% discount At www.bitsdujour.com/software/alfa-ebooks-manager/ only today.

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09-25-2016, 11:49 AM	#2
angelyne Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 50 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-500	It's discounted again until the end of September

09-25-2016, 01:13 PM	#3
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,657 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	What makes this worth paying for when I have Calibre?

10-01-2016, 09:27 AM	#5
angelyne Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 50 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-500	I started a project for myself to download and catalogue all the books I had purchased from Audible. There are several hundreds. I started a Calibre library to house this collection, but got frustrated because I wasn't able to pull metadata from Audible, so had to classify them all as various paperback versions. What's the point of obsessively cataloguing a collection if you are using the wrong information. So that's where Alfa comes in. It supports audiobooks natively and pulls data from Audible. That's the main reason I bought it. The full version is pretty full featured, and support seems responsive. I asked for an "open to file folder option" in the forum and had it less than one week later. However, after having worked quite a lot with both software, Calibre still has the upper-hand when it comes to bulk operations. If you have a massive ebook collection, you are probably better off with Calibre. Alfa does have a (very) bare-bone free version you can download, if you are curious about what it does. I can confirm it does import from various sources

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