You may then be asked which toolbars/menus you would like the plugin to appear on if it is designed to have a user interface.Select a plugin you would like to try, click the Install button, follow the prompts for each plugin.You may need to upgrade your version of Calibre to install some plugins as shown in the Calibre version column.Right-click on a plugin to see more options, such as viewing more detailed information about the plugin in the forum thread in your web browser. This screen will show you all of the plugins available from this forum.Alternatively, click on the arrow next to the Preferences button on your toolbar and choose Get plugins to enhance calibre.

Go to Preferences->Plugins and click on the Get new plugins button.Calibre now comes with something called 'Plugin Updater', which prior to this release was itself a separate plugin. How do I install a plugin using Plugin Updater?Īs of Calibre 0.8.6, installing plugins from this sub-forum is easier than ever. Do not post asking in these forums how to install/use them or issues you have with them as this is against MobileRead policy. Such plugins are not to be discussed in the MobileRead forums if they are for the purposes of removing DRM. You may find other Calibre plugins available on the internet using Google. These will need to be installed manually (see below). In addition you can sometimes find beta versions of upcoming plugins in the Development subforum. This same list is what you will see presented to you using Plugin Updater, discussed below.

The most comprehensive list of plugins available is here in the MobileRead forums on the Index of plugins sticky thread. This sub-forum is dedicated to the user contributed plugins.

Thanks to the Calibre plugins programming interface (API) it is equally possible for end-user developers to write their own plugins, that offer additional features they find useful or override the default Calibre behaviour. Connecting to different devices (Device Drivers).Conversion between book input/output formats (Conversion plugins).Reading book metadata/covers from different websites (Metadata Source plugins).GUI features you see on your toolbars and right-click menus (User Interface Actions).The Calibre application itself comes with and makes extensive use of plugins developed by the Calibre development team, including for example: Functionality in Calibre can be extended through the use of Python code snippets packaged as 'plugins'.

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