You can then sort and search your books by title, author, date published, rating, custom tags and more, making it quick and easy to find whatever you need.Ĭalibre can then display your book, too (as long as it's not DRM-protected), with an integrated viewer that handles all the main formats and supports features like table of contents, CSS, printing, searching, embedded fonts and more. Point calibre at your files and it'll quickly (and almost automatically) build a database around your collection, downloading metadata like covers for extra visual appeal. The process starts by letting the program organise your e-books library. Calibre is an e-book management tool that will quickly bring order to the situation, and help you get more from the format, and (if you have one) your portable e-book reader. in the same place as the "Calibre Library" folder).Is your e-book collection is a disorganised mess of different formats and competing viewers? It doesn't have to be that way. So while you can open any library located anywhere on your computer with calibre Portable, it will not be remembered on restart unless it is located in the portable folder (i.e. For example:Ĭalibre-portable-installer.exe "C:\Calibre Portable"Ĭalibre Portable only remembers libraries that are placed inside the portable folder. You can prevent the installer from asking for an install location by running it with a command line argument pointing to the directory for the install. This can be done by making a copy of the "Calibre Library" folder and all its contents. Portable media can occasionally fail so you should make periodic backups of your calibre library.
The installer will automatically update calibre Portable.
If you want to upgrade a previous version of calibre Portable, download the latest version of the installer from here and run it, choosing the location of your previous calibre Portable install. Previous releases of calibre are available here.