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 calibre
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-calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert and catalog e-books 
+calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books 
 in all of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to e-book reader 
 devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. 
 It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient