

You can add a book to the Calibre library by dragging it in. Instead, I use it to convert books into different formats. While Calibre fancies itself a sort of iTunes for ebooks, I don’t use it as a catalog. It’s a program that’s hard to love, because it’s a cross-platform open-source project and it really shows in the interface. So when I get an epub book I’d like to read, I need to convert that book before I can load it on my Kindle.įor this (and many other ebook related tasks), I use the free tool Calibre.

Instead, Kindle supports the Mobipocket format and its Kindle-specific AZW successors. I like reading books on my Kindle, but one of the drawbacks of the Kindle platform is that it doesn’t support the epub book format. Warning: This story has not been updated in several years and may contain out-of-date information. Calibre: How I put epub books on my Kindle
