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authorLarry Hajali <larryhaja[at]gmail[dot]com>2010-05-13 00:39:02 +0200
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2010-05-13 00:39:02 +0200
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-Calibre is an e-book library manager. It can view, convert and catalog
-e-books in most of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to e-book
-reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your
-books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for
-convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows
-and OS X.
+Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution. It includes library
+management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as
+e-book reader sync features.
-Requires: pysetuptools, lxml, python-dateutil, pil, BeautifulSoup,
-ClientForm, mechanize, dnspython, qt4, sip, and pyqt4.
+Calibre is primarily an ebook cataloging program. It manages your ebook
+collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book,
+i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in several
+formats. It also supports conversion from a dozen different ebook formats to
+LRF and EPUB. A graphical interface to the conversion software can be
+accessed easily by just clicking the "Convert E-books" button.
-Optional: unrar and openjpeg.
-
-Warning: It is best to uninstall calibre first before upgrading to a new
-version.
+This requires pysetuptools, lxml, python-dateutil, BeautifulSoup, ClientForm,
+mechanize, dnspython, and podofo.
-Warning: This package conflicts with pyPdf, CherryPy and cssutils, as it
-provides its own copy of these programs.
+Optional: unrar and openjpeg.
-Note: The ebook viewer functionality doesn't work with Qt 4.5.0 and
-pyqt4 4.4.4. However, it does work with Qt 4.4.3 and pyqt4 4.4.4. As an
-alternative, FBReader is a good choice to view downloaded content on the
-desktop.
+Note: This package conflicts with pyPdf, cssutils, and CherryPy, as it
+provides these packages (available at slackbuilds.org). Calibre also
+provides odfpy and django-tagging (not available at slackbuilds.org).