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diff --git a/office/calibre/README b/office/calibre/README index ee4a238005..9c62b5874e 100644 --- a/office/calibre/README +++ b/office/calibre/README @@ -1,22 +1,19 @@ -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). |