Calibre is a "free and open source e-book management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books." More information can be found at: http://calibre-ebook.com. This webinar will provide an overview of calibre, explore a few legal issues, and provide 5 live demonstrations to help you learn how powerful calibre is when used with today's most popular phones, tablets, and dedicated e-reader devices.

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3. What is calibre?
calibre is a “free and open source e-book
library management application developed
by users of e-books for users of e-books.”
http://calibre-ebook.com/

4. What can calibre do?
• Manages your e-book collection.
• Converts many e-book formats.
• Syncs to a variety of e-readers.
• Downloads RSS feeds & converts to an e-book.
• Comprehensive e-book viewer.
• Content server for online access to your collection.

5. Is it legal to convert e-book formats?

6. YES and NO

7. “You might be tempted to look for some
way to remove DRM from e-books in
order to facilitate conversion. A word of
warning about doing this: In the USA
there is a law known as the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This
law makes it illegal to circumvent a copy
protection system (DRM is such a copy
protection system). It also makes it illegal
to produce tools, distribute tools, and aid
in circumvention. Not everyone lives in
the USA, but many countries have similar
laws. Check your local laws and realize
that even though you may only want to
read an EPUB book that you’ve legally
purchased on your Kindle, it may not be
legal to do so. If you don’t like this
silliness—and I don’t—then speak up to
whoever in your country makes the
relevant laws.”

8. WARNING!

9. Going further, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act states:
“ … the public will have the continued ability to make fair use of copyrighted
works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use under appropriate
circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of circumventing a
technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast, since the fair use
doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a
work, the act of circumventing a technological measure in order to gain
access is prohibited.”
Exception #1:
Nonprofit library, archive and educational institution (section 1201(d)).
The prohibition on the act of circumvention of access control measures is
subject to an exception that permits nonprofit libraries, archives and
educational institutions to circumvent solely for the purpose of making a
good faith determination as to whether they wish to obtain authorized
access to the work.

10. Would you be
willing to help a
patron access
and/or transfer an
e-publication
using Calibre?
Why or why not?

11. calibre
Demos

12. Demo 1
Find an e-book and
transfer it to a device.

14. Demo 2
Convert a DRM-free
e-book to another
format.

15. Demo 3
Over-the-air (OTA)
e-book transfer to a
Kindle Fire

16. Kindle Fire

17. Demo 4
Create an e-book
from RSS feeds.

18. Demo 5
Playing with the
Content Server

19. calibre Resources
Get calibre!
http://calibre-ebook.com/download
calibre User Manual: http://manual.calibre-
ebook.com/
calibre: Watch it in action!
http://calibre-ebook.com/demo
calibre MobileRead Forums:
http://goo.gl/M9y0G

20. Let’s
Hangout!
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