Calibre Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using this software to monitor the calls made by our agents to customers, potential customers, external employees, and suppliers. We can know with the call recordings the performance of the agents, thanks to the analysis and reports that the platform gives us. It is very useful and has significantly improved the work of our agents.

Likelihood to Recommend

Without a doubt, we have loved this software because of how easy it is to use and how useful it has been for us. We have been able to supervise communications between employees, customers, and suppliers, monitoring that our rules and policies are met at all scales, improving performance and productivity at work.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Calibre to manage our eBook libraries and to edit and produce new publications. I am the organization's primary user, although others throughout the organization use it occasionally as well. It allows us to keep our documents and publications organized, coherent, and current, even with multiple sources and devices. It's pretty indispensable.

Likelihood to Recommend

I don't know of any other product that does what Calibre does without costing an arm and a leg. If you have an .epub that you need to convert to .mobi or .pdf or many other formats, while having the ability to customize the metadata and even the source code, Calibre is the best tool out there.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Calibre is a niche application we use for knowledge management. Being in a technical field, we often purchase technical books for training or improving our knowledge on something. More and more, users want digital copies of these books, and they become difficult to manage from a format perspective. Calibre and it's corresponding server help us manage our digital knowledge in an accessible way that all our users can access. Calibre handles multiple ebook formats with ease, and lets users select the one that they want that is of value on their device. As a result, our users now have a centralized spot to look for a particular ebook, without having to resort to word-of-mouth management.

Likelihood to Recommend

Calibre is the right tool if you have a a need for a shared knowledge management system whereby users can collectively access a shared pool of digital content. It eliminates scattered resources that your user base may have and replaces them with a single repository with version management that serves all major devices. The only situation I wouldn't suggest using library is when you have vast digital media libraries that contain DRM. Calibre doesn't handle DRM well. We've largely avoided this problem because our library is from DRM free publishers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

While I've been using Calibre independently for years, my team has recently (in the past 3 years or so) adopted it as well. It has the ability to easily convert PDFs and non-compatible ebook formats into a format readable by your device of choice. This allows my team to trade off on older technical books and small press industry books without having to jump through too many hoops to find a device or software to read it on.

In addition, the news feature, when coupled with the magazine collection, helps the entire team stay on top of the industry and in sync with one another.

Likelihood to Recommend

Calibre is perfect for anywhere you need to maintain and organize a digital reading library that relies on multiple sources, formats and/or user devices. If you read on a single device and only obtain material through, say Amazon, this is a superfluous bit of software for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Calibre is used personally by me. It provides an ideal platform for me to store various ebook formats, and converts them all to a common format that can be read by various digital readers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Calibre is excellent for those who want to just use one format to store all their ebooks. This way you can just rely on one program to view your ebooks instead of needing to install various digital viewers.