Please note that I am a Nook Simple owner, so please adjust outputs accordingly for your e-reader.Ĭalibre E-book Manager Required: This is the only piece of software you will need for the guide, the excellent freeware Calibre. The following guide will teach you how to use the EXCELLENT and FREE e-book manager Calibre to index, convert and manage your e-book collection. Current e-readers are priced down as low as $114 with an average of $140. adults has jumped to 12 percent (as of June 2011) and is expected to continue to grow, especially as prices drop. A second good option is Adobe Digital Edition, but it only reads epubs and PDF formats.Ĭons: Doesn't enable you to read books from external storage devices without first having to import them to its shelf, which means the taking up of space in you internal HD.According to new figures from Pew Internet Research, e-reader ownership is moving at a blistering pace.

The minus side of Stanza is that it cannot work without Java. In my experience Stanza has been the best alternative to save space in my PC HD and be able to read from any external storage device, not to mention the possibility of reading and converting a good variety of ebook formats. With Calibre, everytime you want to open a book stored in an external HD, it will automatically import the book from the external device to your PC HD so as to display it on its shelf and enable the reading. If you like me, want to save precious space in your PC Hard Drive and for this reason keep all your ebooks in an external storage device, then Calibre is not a good option.

Not a good option for those who need to save space in their HD.

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