eLibrary Manager

Karl Weckworth

About this app

Note: This app works with non-DRM ePub books.

eLibrary Manager is an Android app that allows you to manage and enjoy ePub books on your Android devices. With books loaded on an SD card, you can use the app to

1) Discover eBooks on the SD card and load them into your eLibrary.
2) Explore the eLibrary using the metadata included in your eBooks.
3) Customize which book metadata properties you want to use for viewing book info, performing searches, and sorting.
4) Find books in your eLibrary using ad-hoc searches or by invoking saved Book List searches.
5) View book lists with various layout, grouping, and sorting options to help keep the information organized.
6) Manage eBook info with update ability for virtually any metadata property available for your eBooks, including Categories (synonymous with tags, book shelves, subjects), Series and Series Index, Ratings (up to 5 stars), Title, Authors, Description, and many more...
7) Update book covers from images on your device storage.
8) Export updated book info.
9) Designed to work with calibre, suporting both standard and custom calibre properties.
10) Manage and read remote books through the calibre Content Server. NOTE: This feature requires use of Calbre Documents Provider app.
11) [Full] Export ePub books with merged book info updates included, along with external book info files (OPF/cover image).
12) [Full] Manage non-ePub books. NOTE: Requires external reader apps.
13) [Full] Integration with Book Info Lookup Add-on app (available as separate free download) to browse provider records for alternate covers and book info. Install add-on to enable.
14) [Full] Use the Book Info Browser to explore your library by browsing book info like authors, categories, series, book lists and more.
15) [Full] Export updated book info to calibre. NOTE: This feature requires Calbre Documents Provider app.
16) [Full] Create and manage custom eBook info properties.
17) [Full] Manage bookmarks, notes and highlights.
18) [Full] Export bookmarks, notes and highlights.
19) [Full] Launch external reader apps.

The ePub Reader is a feature of the eLibrary Manager app that allows you to read ePub books. Some of the features you can enjoy are

1) Use on-screen buttons or swipe gestures to change screen pages one at a time or continuously for fast screen flips.
2) Use pinch in and out gestures to easily change font sizes.
3) Keep track of the current and total screen numbers for the chapter you are reading, as well as the current and total page numbers for the whole book.
4) Goto any screen in the chapter or any page in the book.
5) Add your favourite fonts.
6) Read books in single or multiple columns.
7) Search for text anywhere in the book you are reading.
8) Navigate through the history of book positions when you need to explore.
9) Pick up where you left off when you finish reading and start up again.
10) Customize the visual presentation of books by setting margins, line height, justification, font, and font size.
11) Access the multi-level Table of Contents for the book you are reading.
12) View a summary of the book you are reading.
13) Perform dictionary lookups using configurable dictionaries.
14) Let your Android device read eBooks to you.
15) Export updated book info.
16) [Full] Create and manage bookmarks, notes and highlights.
17) [Full] Export bookmarks, notes, and highlights.
18) [Full] Synchronize book positions between devices.

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Ratings and reviews

It's a great app, pairs well with a Dropbox sync app for quick access to newly added Calibre books. I prefer a different reading app, but it's able to open my books with it easily. If there's a feature list, please add these suggestions: *Allow more information in the book list view (custom info for series, brief synopsis, etc) *A setting to change the behavior when tapping a book to show more book info instead of trying to load it in a book reading app

I had a bit of difficulty until I was able to change the interface from dark to light on my e-ink reader (I first had to find/use my reader's 'bleach' setting so that I could see where to tap ... But once I had ... this app is everything I'd just about given up in finding. If you have a large collection of ebooks, and really just want an app that will let you find books based on something besides author and title, this is it. At first I was really excited to see that the List function has a query string, so I didn't have to manually add each book into a list. Then I was even more excited, and happy, to find that with this app, I really don't need lists. This app read all the tag information that was saved when I uploaded my books from the Calibre library, and I can sort by tags. If I want to find a book in the Cozy Mystery section, I sort by that tag. If I want to find a Historical Romance, it narrows it down in a flash. The reader works for me. I haven't used any of the bookmarking, quoting, etc. features ... but all I want to do is browse through my books, find what I'm in the mood for reading easily, and start reading. It makes my ereader a library.

It's really a wonderful app for book reading. I have a suggestion that please enable lookup dictionary feature to directly take reader to the selected option of dictionary. It's not very expedient to every time select a lookup option to go to an already selected dictionary. Please consider this

What's new

VERSION 5.1.2:
- Provide better feedback when scan errors occur.
- Fix regression where books without table of contents registered do not load.
- Usability improvements.
- Maintenance updates.