Ebook Management dan Convert Ebook

Tentunnya teman semua sudah sangat familiar dengan format file epub yang digunakan untuk sebagai file format untuk ebook pada umumnya. Biasanya file ebook dengan extension epub ini banyak digunakan pada ebook reader yang beredar saat ini.

Untuk para pengguna Linux, terutama Ubuntu, disini kita dapat melakukan konversi file ebook dari file pdf ke file epub ini dengan menggunakan program yang tentunya gratis yaitu “Calibre”.

Calibre ini program untuk management ebook dan bisa juga untuk melakukan konversi tipe file ebook pada umumnya. Calibre ini juga mendukung multi platform OS yang ada, bahkan ada juga yang portablenya loh…

Calibre ini memiliki kemampuan untuk :

- Library Management
- E-book conversion
- Syncing to e-book reader devices
- Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
- Comprehensive e-book viewer
- Content server for online access to your book collection

Untuk lebih jelasnya bisa dilihat di : http://calibre-ebook.com/

Bagi pengguna Linux Ubuntu atau variannya dapat dengan mudah melakukan download dan instalasi untuk calibre ini, berikut langkahnya :

$ sudo apt-get install calibre
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python-psycopg2 python-psycopg python-mysqldb python-flup python-sqlite python-yaml python-lxml-dbg python-paste
The following NEW packages will be installed:
calibre calibre-bin libpodofo0.9.0 python-beautifulsoup python-cherrypy3 python-clientform python-cssutils
python-cssutils-doc python-django python-django-tagging python-dnspython python-encutils python-lxml python-mechanize
python-pyparsing python-routes python-webob
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Setelah selesai instalasi, tinggal dijalankan program calibre ini :



Untuk melakukan konversi file ebook, tinggal klik menu “Add books” untuk memilih dan memasukan file ebook sumber yang ingin dikonversi, setelah itu klik menu “Convert books”



Setelah itu tinggal menentukan tipe file ebook tujuan, misalnya file sumbernya adalah .pdf dan dan ingin dirubah menjadi file ebook .epub, Setelah itu klik “OK” untuk memulai proses konversi


Tinggal tunggu hingga prosesnya selesai. Untuk hasil file konversinya (.epub) akan ada di : /home/user/Calibre\ Library/

Setelah file epub nya jadi kita tinggal copy ke perangkat ebook reader yang digunakan dan selamat membaca..