Calibre 4.18.0

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 4.18 new features:

Viewer: Search panel: Add a button to return to the position the book was at before doing a search. Closes tickets: 1879889
Tag browser: Improve handling of hierarchical tags Closes tickets: 1880264
Renaming a tag now renames it and all its children. Drag and drop of hierarchical tags alters their hierarchy. Deleting a tag now deletes all its children.
Viewer: In flow mode, implement drag scrolling. Closes tickets: 1880707
Tag browser: Allow Manage Tags to open to a selected letter when clicking on a letter. Closes tickets: 1880175
Viewer: Show number of search results in title of search panel. Closes tickets: 1881792
Content server: In the book list hovering over the library name now shows the total number of books in the library. Closes tickets: 1881384

Bug fixes

Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the copy and recalculate author sort buttons. Closes tickets: 1880395
Book details: Fix extra margin to the right of the metadata fields. Closes tickets: 1881488
Cover grid: Show text under books that have no cover as well. Closes tickets: 1880558
When merging metadata, if a custom column has type multiple in the new data and some other type in the old data, ignore the old data instead of failing. Closes tickets: 1881796
macOS: When using the single instance option of the viewer, crashes should not require a restart of the computer to use the viewer again. Closes tickets: 1881375
Windows: Fix an error when changing title/author for books in a library whose name contains characters not encodeable in the current code page
Windows: Fix amazon metadata download failing when accented characters in search query. Closes tickets: 1880300
Comments editor: Fix shortcuts for bold/italic not working when toolbars are hidden

Improved news sources:

The Hindu
Wired Daily Edition
The Economist

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