uni tricks: Howto install Calibre on Windows 7

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Howto install Calibre on Windows 7

Reading ebook is no longer difficult task. With so many device created for that purpose I can enjoy reading activity in mobility. Very good friend if you always face road congestion, train travel or digitalizing your books collection.
Calibre is a software that work as ebook management that I want to install on my Windows 7.
Here’s installation steps for Windows 7

Install Calibre

Download latest version of Calibre from here
Calibre available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Double click the installer to start install process, click Install

Calibre will install all required files

Calibre setup wizard successfully install, click Finish

Configure Calibre

Choose location of your books.
Click “Change” button if you want to change default location.
Click Next.

Calibre support many manufacture such as :

Amazon
Android
Apple
Astak
Augen
Barnes & Noble
Booken
Booq
Ectaco
Endless Ideas
Jinke
Kobo
PocketBook
Sony

And many more.
I choose Amazon Kindle and click Next.

Enter my email address at Amazon and click Next.

Done.
Click Finish.
You can add new book on Calibre for easy management.

How to convert Ebooks on Calibre

Sometime we need to convert book for reading in other device.
In this case I want to convert book for apple format (epub) to Kindle format (mobi).
1. Choose book you want to convert
2. Click Convert icon as seen on the picture