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.
Calibre 4.1.0 new features:
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Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences)
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Viewer: Allow showing the "position in book", as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in calibre 3, in the header or footer of the viewer. Closes tickets: 1846700
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Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode. Closes tickets: 1846800
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Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them. Closes tickets: 1846903
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Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer
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Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit
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Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates. Closes tickets: 1846839
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Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes. Closes tickets: 1846967
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Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
Bug fixes:
- Viewer: Fix a couple of bugs in flow mode. Scrolling to anchors was not working and remembering last read position was not working
- Viewer: Fix text after comments not being rendered. Note that the book has to be reloaded if already viewed for the fix to apply. Closes tickets: 1846875
- Viewer: Fix loading progress screen sometimes getting stuck if changing pages rapidly. Closes tickets: 1846751
- Viewer: Fix failing to open books if path to cache contains symbolic links. Closes tickets: 1846834
- Viewer: When restoring from fullscreen go back to maximized state if window was maximized when entering full screen. Closes tickets: 1846753
- Viewer: Fix shortcut changes not being applied after pressing OK if shortcut list is closed by pressing Esc. Closes tickets: 1846765
- Fix a regression that broke reading metadata from ODT files that do not have keywords. Closes tickets: 1846828
- PDF Output: Fix a bug that prevented the first style property in the header or footer template from being applied
- PDF Output: Fix error with a few embedded TTF fonts. Closes tickets: 1846982
- Edit book: Font manager: Fix removing embedded font failing if @font-face rule has no src. Closes tickets: 1847052
- Viewer: Hide the browser provided scrollbar that flashes momentarily on page load. Closes tickets: 1846922
- Viewer: Fix clicking on margins causing keyboard shortcuts to not work until the main text is clicked on again
- Comments editor: Workaround for Qt converting ids into anchors
- Possible workaround for some windows machines where the viewer is getting access denied errors while renaming a directory
- Viewer: When there is empty text for an header footer section render it as blank instead of moving the remaining sections to the left
Improved news sources:
- Fortune Magazine
Download: Calibre 4.1.0 for Windows | Portable | Windows 64-bit | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 4.1.0 for MacOS | 154.0 MB
Download: Calibre 4.1.0 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
