Portable calibre2opds

Those who maintain an extensive eBook collection might require an efficient way of sharing their books by publishing their library in the form of catalogs. calibre2opds was designed addressing users who organize their eBook set with the Calibre library management application and it will offer easy conversion of the metadata from Calibre to OPDS or HTML format catalogs, which can be further on shared and used as an online library.

calibre2opds comes with an elegant, tabbed interface with tools that are distributed intuitively, therefore providing users with a sequential way of defining their catalogs. All the options and entry fields for the catalog information are well spaced and easy to identify or access, which facilitates the ease of use.

The application’s contextual menu is kept minimal, its tools being complemented by the lower tabbed content and users will have no trouble in handling its features for generating eBook catalogs. Albeit displaying such a straightforward interface, calibre2opds doesn’t sacrifice on its useful tools and one will find a lot of options for attaining the desired eBook catalog configuration.

Users just need to indicate the folder where the Calibre library metadata is stored and afterward they can start the catalog customization process. The application provides entry for numerous catalog details, such as: name, filters, tags, authors, ratings, series, cross reference, etc. and one can select a broad range of formats for import: EPUB, PDF, RTF, TXT, PRC, PDB, MOBI, etc.

The catalogs can be exported to OPDS, XML and HTML formats and people can also add custom external links for their catalogs, with a book reference list and search options. Being moderate on resources, calibre2opds requires Java to work and sometimes it can take on a bit too much memory for what it actually does.

If requiring a quick and straightforward way of presenting the eBook collection as an online catalog, users will surely appreciate the conversion capabilities of calibre2opds. It will provide a multitude of options for customizing the catalogs, supporting many eBook formats and offering export to common formats such as OPDS or HTML. Coming as a lightweight companion for the Calibre eBook manager, this application will be easy to use by everybody.