1# calibre 2 3<img align="left" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/resources/images/lt.png" height="200" width="200"/> 4 5calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books 6in all of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to e-book reader 7devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. 8It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient 9reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and macOS. 10 11For more information, see the [calibre About page](https://calibre-ebook.com/about). 12 13[![Build Status](https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/workflows/Continuous%20Integration/badge.svg)](https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/actions?query=workflow%3ACI) 14 15## Screenshots 16 17[Screenshots page](https://calibre-ebook.com/demo) 18 19## Usage 20 21See the [User Manual](https://manual.calibre-ebook.com). 22 23## Development 24 25[Setting up a development environment for calibre](https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/develop.html). 26 27A [tarball of the source code](https://calibre-ebook.com/dist/src) for the 28current calibre release. 29 30## Bugs 31 32Bug reports and feature requests should be made in the calibre bug tracker at [Launchpad](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre). 33GitHub is only used for code hosting and pull requests. 34 35## Support calibre 36 37calibre is a result of the efforts of many volunteers from all over the world. 38If you find it useful, please consider contributing to support its development. 39[Donate to support calibre development](https://calibre-ebook.com/donate). 40 41## Building calibre binaries 42 43See [Build instructions](bypy/README.rst) for instructions on how to build the 44calibre binaries and installers for all the platforms calibre supports. 45 46## calibre package versions in various repositories 47 48[![Packaging Status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/calibre.svg)](https://repology.org/project/calibre/versions) 49