Calibre 3.44 [Update]

Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer.

It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Calibre"s features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats, giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.

New features in Calibre 3.43:

Kobo driver: Support for new Kobo firmware
Edit metadata dialog: Remember relative sizes of the cover and comments editors.

Calibre 3.43 bug fixes:

PDF Output: Fix hang when converting some documents.
Handle newlines when serializing to csr files
Fix searching in manage tags throws away all changes
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke using the wireless device driver with the device_for_template option
Fix metadata download from Amazon stripping accents from comments text in the binary builds
Amazon metadata download: Fix some downloads failing when a mobile user agent is randomnly selected.
LRF Input: Fix a regression that broke parsing LRF files.
PDF Input: Workaround for pdftohtml not always producing valid UTF-8.

New news sources

The Baffler by Jose Ortiz

Improved news sources

The Toronto Star
The Financial Express
London Review of Books
Boston Globe Subscription

New features in Calibre 3.44:

Driver for the new NOOK Glowlight Plus
Driver for updated Kobo firmware

Bug fixes

Amazon metadata plugin: Fix searching the Amazon servers directly not working because of changed markup

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