The best management tools for your digital library

Practical to be used in public transport and offering a significant saving of space, digital books, whether ebooks or audiobooks, allow you to enjoy literary works without collecting physical books.

But, as for a classic library, storage and classification can quickly become a real headache. To help you quickly find your digital books, here is a selection of managers specially designed to simplify your life. We have distinguished two types of managers: the simple tools to classify and organize the works you have, and the tools integrating a library allowing you to access a multitude of works.

Managers without integrated library

Calibre

Caliber is a free and free ebooking manager, to download on Desktop Windows, Mac or Linux, which facilitates the reading, conversion and transfer of your digital books to your mobile device or your reader, and vice versa. It supports many formats and offers the backup of all your books (and reading them), as you would for any data, allowing you to keep them in a secure space. If you have a reader in a proprietary format like the Amazon Kindle, caliber removes this constraint by simplifying the conversion of your digital books in a compatible format.

In terms of managing your ebooks, caliber allows you to sort them according to their author, but also the format, the publisher, the language, the note (which you will have allocated), the label (or tag) which can Aims to be a category if you wish. Note that it is possible to personalize the caliber interface and that it allows the management of several libraries, centralizing all the family’s libraries on a single interface.

Caliber does not include a library, but however allows you to look for books on the internet. If this is a free work, you will be able to download it directly. In the event that it is a paid ebook, users have a link to access the digital bookstore in question to buy it.

Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe Digital Editions is not only a manager of digital books, but also a reading tool. Free and compatible Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, it allows you to list many works and above all to automatically synchronize them on the different connected devices. The application incorporates a content search system, simplifying the search for works from keywords in the text. It is possible to connect to external libraries, whether to buy books or to download them for free. You can also organize your library as you see fit and create personalized libraries to sort according to your sorting preferences (author, title, publisher).

But what makes the difference with other managers is the enriched reading experience thanks to the management of the EPUB3 format. With this interactive format, readers can benefit from an audio and video rendering, the management of reading from left to right, dynamic adaptation of images, interactive quizs, etc. Finally, the APPCLAID allows you to read the fihckers blocked by the DRM Adobe.

ReadEra

If you are rather the type to read on your smartphone or tablet, Readera could be more suitable for your reading habits. Thanks to this free and advertising mobile application, you can read files in PDF, Epub, Kindle (Mobi and Azw3), DJVU, FB2, Zip and RAR files, but also office files like text files (TXT), Opendocument files (ODT), Help files (CHM) and files from the Microsoft Office suite (DOC, DOCX and RTF).

It allows you to display the pages for an ergonomic reading, and also has a management tool to classify and sort the works as you see fit (author, series, collection, etc.). Another interesting feature allows you to create different lists, such as books under reading, favorites or already read works. A children’s reading mode is integrated, displaying only the readings adapted to their age, offering a simplified reading interface and a screen with wider books covers.

Manager integrating a catalog of works

Kobo Books

Kobo Books is an iOS and Android application, but also for Windows 10/11, ideal for digital and audio reading enthusiasts. It offers access to more than six million ebooks and audio books, offered by Rakuten, accessible at any time and from anywhere. You will have a choice of paid and free works, and for library, a monthly subscription system allows you to read everything you want at will. Its ergonomic and colorful interface facilitates navigation and offers many features. You can customize your experience by adding notes, highlighting passages or adjusting the size and style of characters according to your needs.

Suitable for everyone, Kobo Books also allows you to adjust the brightness for optimal comfort, especially with a night mode for evening readings. Practical and versatile, the application brings together your entire library in one place and allows you to share your readings on social networks.

Audible

Amazon subsidiary, Audible is the reference of audio and podcasts books. No need for reader, a pair of headphones is enough to take advantage of a catalog of more than 250,000 audio and exclusive podcasts. The application offers immersive experience thanks to quality narrations, carried out by actors, authors or professional storytellers. The intuitive interface facilitates the discovery of new titles adapted to the tastes of each user, while allowing fluid listening, even offline. Integrated features, such as setting up reading speed, bookmarks or collection manager, provide real comfort of use. The latter allows you to easily organize audio books in personalized categories, offering rapid navigation and effective monitoring of current or finished listening.

Audible is aimed at both literature and personal development enthusiasts or the curious in search of new knowledge. Accessible on different platforms, it guarantees perfect synchronization between the devices, so that each user can resume his listening where he had left it. Thanks to its subscription model, it allows you to regularly discover new content while retaining the books acquired in a personal library.

Wattpad

Wattpad is an interactive platform where writing and reading enthusiasts meet to share and discover new stories. Accessible on mobile and computer, it offers a dynamic space where the authors publish their stories, while readers explore a wide range of genres and universes. Thanks to the collection manager, users can organize their favorite stories in personalized libraries, which facilitates their access and follow -up.

Experience is enriched by tools to interact directly with the authors, whether to comment on chapters or share opinions. Synchronization between devices guarantees continuity of reading at any time, and personalized recommendations stimulate the discovery of new stories. Most of the works are free, but it is possible to subscribe to a premium subscription to remove advertising, and download the works for offline reading.

Google Play Livres

Google Play Books offers you to buy books, but also their audio version from a large catalog of thousands of books: novels, comics, manga, tests, school works … The application is smartphone or tablet compatible On Android or iOS (iPhone, iPad) but requires a Google account to work and give you access to ebooks and audio books. It is also possible to access the service from the website, via your internet browser.

The platform offers paid content, of course, but also free content by simply grasping the word “free” in the search engine. Note that it is possible to access the works from the Google Play Store book section, but you will need to have Google Play Books to download and read them. Note that from your library, you can import other works, find your works from shelves that you have created manually, or sort books according to different criteria (progression, source, author, recent, etc.).

Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle transforms any device into a digital library, allowing users to access a large catalog of electronic books with more than a million titles. Its user -friendly interface offers an immersive reading experience, with options to personalize the fonts, margins and brightness depending on individual preferences. The collection manager makes it possible to classify ebooks according to personalized categories, making the organization and search for more fluid titles.

Integrated tools, such as bookmarks, hugs and annotations, offer great flexibility to explore and deepen the texts. The synchronization between devices guarantees that reading resumes exactly where it was stopped, ensuring perfect continuity. With its offline mode and advanced research features, the application makes digital reading practical and accessible at any time, for literature enthusiasts as for occasional readers.