“Get Books” also tells you the DRM status of the ebook. So if you are looking for a public domain ebook like “Youth by Asimov”, one of these may be your best option.ĭRM status: Price may not be the only thing that determines where you buy your ebook from. Project Gutenberg,, and Manybooks, between them, carry almost all the public domain ebooks and make them available free. “Get books” allows you to do price comparisons over a very large range of stores when buying ebooks. Price comparison: It is interesting that the price of the ebook in theĭifferent store varies quite a bit as shown in both figures above. It is also possible to simultaneously search for an author and title as shown in the figure below (title is “Youth” and author is “Asimov”). One could enter “Enid Blyton” in the search box to see all ebooks by Enid Blyton available in the selected stores. In the figure above the search has been performed for the title “the naughtiest girl in school”. You can search for a particular ebook by entering the title in the search box or you can search for all ebooks by a particular author by entering the author name in the search box. In the figure below as you can see on the left column 3 stores have been selected so “Get Books” searches on those stores. You can choose the stores to be searched by selecting them from the list on the left. However you do not have to search for the ebooks in all the stores. The search results only show ebooks and exclude paperbacks, hardbacks etc. These stores include ebooks in English, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, Dutch, French and Italian. Parallel Searching: In the latest version of calibre (0.8.21 right now) “Get Books” searches over 40 stores from various countries for ebooks. To access “Get Books”, click the icon shown below in the calibre tool bar. The returned list of matches can be sorted by price, allowing you to find the cheapest edition of the book. It can simultaneously search over 40 different online stores for books by title and author. Purchase/download to your calibre library.
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“Get Books” allows you to search for ebooks online, that you can then