Calibre: best freeware for e-book management and conversion

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

• Library Management
  calibre manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of thelogical book, i.e., a single entry in your library that may correspond to actual e-book files in several formats.

  calibre can sort the books in your library by: Title, Author, Date added, Date published, Size, Rating, Series, etc.

  In addition, it supports extra searchable metadata:

  • Tags: A flexible system for categorizing your collection however you like
  • Comments: A long form entry that you can use for book description, notes, reviews, etc.

  You can easily search your book collection for a particular book. calibre supports searching any and all of the fields mentioned above. You can construct advanced search queries by clicking the helpful "Advanced search" button to the left of the search bar.

  You can export arbitrary subsets of your collection to your hard disk arranged in a fully customizable folder structure.

  Finally, calibre will even go out onto the internet to find book metadata based on existing title/author or ISBN information. It can download various types of metadata and covers for your books, automatically. The metadata system is written using plugins so that different types of metadata sources can be supported in the future.
• E-book conversion
  calibre can convert from a huge number of formats to a huge number of formats. It supports all the major e-book formats. The full list of formats can be found here .

  The conversion engine has lots of powerful features. It can rescale all font sizes, ensuring the output e-book is readable no matter what font sizes the input document uses. It can automatically detect/create book structure, like chapters and Table of Contents. It can insert the book metadata into a "Book Jacket" at the start of the book.
• Syncing to e-book reader devices
  calibre has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for a large number of devices, the complete list of which is here . Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the library and creation of collections on the device based on the tags defined in the library. If a book has more than one format available, calibre automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device. If none of the formats is suitable, calibre will automatically convert the e-book to a format suitable for the device before sending it.
• Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
  calibre can automatically fetch news from websites or RSS feeds, format the news into a ebook and upload to a connected device. The ebooks include the full versions of the articles, not just the summaries. Examples of supported news sites include:

  • The New York Times
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The Economist
  • Time
  • Newsweek
  • The Guardian
  • ESPN
  • and many, many more…

  calibre has over three hundred news sources and the news system is plugin based, allowing users to easily create and contribute new sources to calibre. As a result the collection of news sources keeps on growing!

  If you are interested in adding support for a news site, read the User Manual . Once you have successfully created a new recipe, you can share it with other users by posting it in the calibre forum  or sending it to the calibre developers for inclusion in calibre.
• Comprehensive e-book viewer
  calibre has a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major ebook formats. It has full support for Table of Contents, bookmarks, CSS, a reference mode, printing, searching, copying, customizing the rendering via a user style sheet, embedded fonts, etc.
• Content server for online access to your book collection
  calibre has a built-in web server that allows you to access your ebook collection using a simple browser from any computer anywhere in the world. It can also email your books and downloaded news to you automatically. It has support for mobile devices, so you can browse your collection and download books from your smartphone, Kindle, etc.

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Abiword – The Best Free Lightweight Word Processor

Get a lightweight but not underpowered word processor. If you need a program compatible with a wide variety of file formats, Abiword might be the right fit for you. It’s not as powerful as Microsoft Word or Libre Office‘s Writer, to be sure, but it does have most of the features the average user needs (and many the average user doesn’t need).

Abiword isn’t well known on the Internet at large and that’s a shame. Not only does it work well on Linux and Windows computers, it also runs quickly on just about any computer, even really old ones. This makes it a great fit for anyone who finds minimalistic text editors, such as FocusWriter, too stripped-down when it comes to formatting, particularly if they also find Word and Writer too bloated.

Recently, during a discussion on MakeUseOf Answers, I noticed that our team never got around to reviewing AbiWord. Seeing as AbiWord has been around forever, and how it’s still the best compromise out there between a bloated word processor and underpowered text editors, it’s time to change that.

In A Nutshell

Fire up Abiword. The first thing you’ll notice – this free word processor loads quickly. The second thing you’ll notice is that this interface is familiar to anyone who used Word before 2007:

You’ll quickly find all the formatting tools you’d expect – fonts, colours, lists, headers and footers and annotations. Naturally you can insert images and tables as well; explore the program and you’ll get a feel for what it can do very quickly.

You can save your files in a wide variety of formats:

How well these will look in their respective native programs can vary, but the flexibility is appreciated. Most of these files can be opened as well, making AbiWord a great free word processor for opening obscure files.

Abiword also features real-time collaboration, similar to what’s found in Google Docs. This functionality might be the subject of an upcoming review, so I’ll say no more about it for now. Additional functionality can be added with Abiword plugins, though most of the best ones are bundled with the program on Linux.

What’s Missing?

So what’s not here that might cause some people to use Word or Writer? Well, macros are right out, of course, and there is no grammar checking. It’s also worth nothing that doc/docx support isn’t perfect. Advanced images and tables will cause Abiword to sputter, so I won’t be editing MakeUseOf’s manuals with AbiWord anytime soon.

There are certainly other features missing; feel free to fill in your fellow readers in the comments below.

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Adobe Reader 10.0.1

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

• View, print, and search PDF files, including PDF Portfolios and PDF maps
• Author, store, and share documents, and share your screen, using Acrobat.com services
• Experience richer content and greater interactivity with native support for Adobe Flash technology
• Review documents using familiar commenting tools such as sticky notes, highlighting, lines, shapes, and stamps (When enabled by Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended)
• Digitally sign PDF documents (When enabled by Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended)

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Foxit Phantom v2.2.4.0225

Foxit Phantom v2.2.4.0225

EAT group has released latest version of Foxit Phantom. Foxit Phantom is a business ready PDF toolkit, with everything you need to create professional PDF documents and streamline business processes: fast, easy-to-use and at a price that fits your budget. With Foxit Phantom you can create standards compliant PDF files from hundreds of files types up to 3 times faster than with competitor tools. The lightweight application with a tiny footprint means you can download and install Foxit Phantom in a flash and reliably view any PDF document that comes your way.

Features:

* View any PDF Document - Regardless of Source 
 * Create, Edit, and Save PDF Files from All Common 
 File Formats 
 * Create and Manage Forms
 * Document Collaboration 
 * Protect Sensitive Information
 * Merge and Split PDF Files
 * Add Multimedia to PDF Files
 * Secure Document Delivery & Management

 * View any PDF Document - Regardless of Source 
 Foxit Phantom is built on our award winning PDF
 rendering technology, allowing you to view any PDF 
 document at faster speeds with greater fidelity. 

 * Create, Edit, and Save PDF Files 
 Foxit Phantom comes complete with PDF conversion 
 capability for any type of printable document, 
 including DOC, SLT, PPT TXT, E-MAIL, HTML formats
 (and many others), allowing conversion to a PDF
 format with just one click. Foxit Phantom also 
 provides complete editing capabilities for PDF 
 files. Foxit Phantom provides the ability for
 controlling and integrating a variety of objects 
 within a PDF document, including the ability to
 modify PDF files, such as adding or deleting PDF 
 text, graphics, images, and color changing and 
 shading, as well as updating the page layout.

 * Create and Manage Forms
 Our PDF Forms tool enables you to gather information 
 from others, while eliminating repetitive manual 
 keying of data and eliminating errors. Foxit Phantom 
 offers users complete form creation functionality, 
 such as the ability to create forms in minutes, add
 controls and even convert static PDF files into
 professional looking, fully interactive forms that 
 can be used to capture data from virtually anyone in 
 your organization. 

 * Document Collaboration 
 Foxit Phantom's full complement of review and
 comment tools speed document collaboration by
 allowing rapid review cycles via e-mail. Foxit 
 Phantom enables you to create annotations for your 
 PDF documents. Changes can be marked with a variety
 of methods such as highlighted text, or by adding
 stamps and sticky notes. These annotations can be
 displayed as well as printed in some or all the
 pages of your document.

 * Protect Sensitive Information
 Foxit Phantom allows you to set document permissions 
 as well as enable control of printing or saving of 
 your document. Documents can be password protected,
 redacted to hide information, or electronically
 signed with secure, "proof of digital signature" 
 capability.

 * Merge and Split PDF Files
 Foxit Phantom includes functionality to combine, 
 split and re-package various PDF files into several
 smaller single & multiple page PDF files according 
 to page numbers & page range, along with organizing
 PDF files by re-arranging pages, and composing page
 outlines, as well as other configurations. Foxit 
 Phantom displays an overview page without any
 additional software so you can easily know what you
 are working on. It allows you to not only split, 
 merge, and reorganize pages in your PDF document,
 but also allows you to create outlines (bookmarks),
 for more efficient document browsing.

 * Add Multimedia to PDF Files
 Using Foxit Phantom, users can watch and embed 
 videos or audio directly into PDF files by simply
 adding multi-media enhancements such as video, 
 sound, and interactive content, transforming PDF 
 documents into better communication tools. 

 * Secure Document Delivery & Management
 Foxit Phantom incorporates On Demand Content 
 Management right out of box, and makes it easier to
 access, render, route and share documents over the 
 web with high performance and complete document
 integrity. With Foxit Phantom, users can collaborate 
 on documents, route them within approval workflows 
 or even fax or email them in one click. Foxit On 
 Demand is built on 128 bit SSL Encryption and
 authentication, incorporating digital Bar Coding and 
 secure Uploading, allowing you to send or share a
 variety of documents, such as contracts, forms, and
 agreements securely with anyone, anywhere in the 
 world. From simple document based workflow routing 
 to complete document delivery, the Foxit On Demand 
 engine effortlessly handles the complete execution 
 and management of business processes.

Size: 20,4 MB

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