Calibre

“Calibre does a pretty good job, but it has its own algorithm that is very convoluted”

“Calibre is simplest but probably not for completely non-technical people”

“Calibre can also do that for you transparently when loading the files onto the Kobo.”

“USB+calibre is my only option as I do not wish to share my reading habits with the zillionaire overlord”

“Calibre can do that with no loss of quality with a checkbox, and page turns are much much faster.”

“If not for Calibre, I would have absolutely no option of ever getting new books on it.”

“Until a year ago, it was either Calibre/CalibreWeb, Audiobookshelf, or a few alternative readers”

“I have ebooks in Calibre, which I use to sync them over to the Kobo.”

“Being able to just turn on wifi and click "calibre" > "connect" to transfer books from my PC is a killer feature”

“it's the best solution out there with the most community support, and it grew on me”

“Calibre does does the conversion on the fly when I upload my books, so I don't really experience any issues there”

“Allegedly it's due to an incompatibility between the Kindle DRM and the way Calibre tricks the Kindle”

“ebooks mean you can search highlights, categorize them, see summaries of them”

“importing them into Calibre (after some work to get Adobe Digital Editions to import nicely)”

“There is a very good open source conversion tool called "Calibre". I use it all the time”

“you can write an app like Calibre in Python and QT and it is much lighter”

“I went and converted the entirety of my library to Calibre with multiple open formats.”

“Calibre is a rather painful tool, but seems to remain the best.”

“While Calibre makes it easy, it's even easier to just download a copy someone else has already stripped of DRM.”

“use it together with something like Calibre, so you have all your books”

“Calibre (though this is not so simple with Amazon ebooks since they disabled downloading books to your PC)”

“it still is THE best way to convert books from one format to another”

“it's weirdly shoddy software, slow as a dog, and the worst UX i've ever seen in a popular app”

“Calibre still speaks the format of these old Kindles, so they're usable”

“Kobo + Libby + Calibre has been my loadout for a decade. Works great!”

“You can add books using the Calibre software which converts epubs and mobi files I think.”

“Calibre lets you put non-Amazon eBooks on these very same devices. It made me start using my old Kindle again”

“I can just get the Ebook or PDF files and transfer them via Calibre, simple as that”

“I've had Calibre running someplace and mailing me news every weekend for around... 15 years?”

“Calibre can convert HTML to ePub, which you can then use reader apps for.”

“every PDF I download, ebook, academic article, it goes in Calibre and out of my Downloads path.”

“I like Calibre, but it is not great for people who are just getting started.”

“Does Calibre really need its own AI chatbox when I can ask the same question to ChatGPT in a browser?”

“having that feature as a not forced option in a book management solution a good match”

“Calibre can get the files onto any other device with a drag and drop operation”

“Calibre turns DRM-free epubs into Kindle accepted mobi format seemlessly on upload.”

“Calibre has had a comically obtuse and amateur UI for over a decade.”

“I use it weekly, but by the gods, it's neither pretty nor friendly.”

“its design and implementation doesn't share conventions with any other application”

“making Calibre's UI less unpleasant before adding yet another bolted-on AI chat textbox”