All My Books vs Calibre

December 22, 2025 | Author: Maria Lin

Windows program for cataloging books. Suitable for printed books, audiobooks and e-books. The program can automatically populate book entries from the internet by title, author name or ISBN number, scan your hard drive for book files, allows to add your own information to the book card, including thoughts, reflections and illustrations. Over a dozen user templates allow you to customize AMB's appearance. The program lets you track which books you've already read, generate statistics, export collections to a variety of formats, password-protect your library. Also it supports playback of audiobooks stored on a memory card. AMB can play MP3, WMA, M4A, Audible (AA, AAX) and OGG formats.

Calibre

Calibre is a free, open-source program (written in Python) for managing e-book libraries on Windows, Mac and Linux. It offers the most rich set of features, divided into the following main categories: library management, e-book conversion, synchronization with e-readers, downloading news from the internet and converting them to e-book formats, e-book viewer-reader, e-book editor and a content server for web access to your book collection. The program reorganizes book files into own structure. There are numerous plugins developed for the program by the community. However, many find the interface cluttered and unwieldy.

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All My Books vs Calibre in our news:

2022. Personal library software All My Books removed all Amazon integrations

The new version All My Books 3.2 has removed all Amazon integration due to an Amazon's lawyer request. Instead of it the program added support of OpenLibrary.org for the book details download. Besides the developers improved "Get large cover" function, added ISBNdb.com support as a backup source for searching by ISBNs, improved Goodreads support for the book details, optimized images loading in the "Select book" dialog (lazyload), fixed import book details from bol.com, added several alternative HTML templates for the book details - "Big Blue Green", "Collector Black", "Sidelined Gray", "This One's Brown". "Table of Contents" field is now displayed as a bulleted list in the book details area.

Author: Maria Lin

Maria Lin, is a seasoned content writer who has contributed to numerous tech portals, including Mashable and bookrunch, as a guest author. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of California, where her research predominantly concentrated on mobile apps, software, AI and cloud services. With a deep passion for reading, Maria is particularly drawn to the intersection of technology and books, making book tech a subject of great interest to her. During her leisure time, she indulges in her love for cooking and finds solace in a good night's sleep. You can contact Maria Lin via email maria@bookrunch.com