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 4.17 new features:
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Add a workaround for Amazon destroying cover thumbnails on e-ink Kindles. For books sent with this release of calibre, reconnecting the Kindle to calibre after the cover has been destroyed will restore it automatically
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Viewer: Group search results by section
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Viewer: When the search results panel is expanded, show more context
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Tag browser: Add options in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to hide empty categories and also to have the Find in the Tag browser show all matches instead of jumping from match to match.
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Tag browser: The Find function for searching for items in the Tag browser can now do exact matching by using = as a prefix.
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Manage tags/authors/etc dialogs: Allow searching and filtering the list of items. Closes tickets: 1879134
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Book details panel contenxt menu: Add an action to open the Book details window. Closes tickets: 1878768
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Viewer: Add Next and Previous buttons in the bookmarks panel. Closes tickets: 1878691
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Conversion: Change the default white-space CSS for tags to pre-wrap as this suits ebooks better
Bug fixes
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Edit Book: Fix default CSS template not quoting the charset, causing Check book to complain about the CSS. Closes tickets: 1879618
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Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the losslessly compress images tool when the image filenames had upper case characters on Windows. Closes tickets: 1879313
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Fix a regression that broke drag and drop of images from browsers to the book details panel on some platforms. Closes tickets: 1879120
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FB2 metadata: Fix setting dates before 1900 failing
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Fix Bookeen Diva HD not being detected. Closes tickets: 1877965
Improved news sources:
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How To Geek
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Tagespost by Pat Stapleton
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ABC News
New news sources:
- Independent Australia by Pat Stapelton
Download: Calibre 4.17 for Windows | Portable | Windows 64-bit | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 4.17 for MacOS | 154.0 MB
Download: Calibre 4.17 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
