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 5.17.0 new features:
- E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image. Closes tickets: 1926484
- Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu. Closes tickets: 1923724
- E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter. Closes tickets: 1851908
- E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards. Closes tickets: 1925038
- E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size. Closes tickets: 1925294
Bug fixes
- Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of fixing some rare and hard to reproduce crashes
- Windows MTP driver: Set modified and created times when putting files/folders on device. Also read modified time correctly.
- Windows: E-book viewer: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled. Closes tickets: 1918591
- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values. Closes tickets: 1925378
- Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes
- E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected. Closes tickets: 1926518
- Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags. Closes tickets: 1925247
- E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up. Closes tickets: 1925988
- E-book viewer: Right clicking when text is selected should extend the selection instead of doing nothing. Closes tickets: 1925390
- Fix settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is closed
- DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images
- Closes tickets: 1926025
- Content server viewer: Fix mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights. Closes tickets: 1925961
- E-book viewer: Fix read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable
- E-book viewer: Fix navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode
Improved news sources
- Barrons
- Krebs On Security
Download: Calibre 5.17.0 for Windows | Portable | Windows 64-bit | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 5.17.0 for MacOS | 144.0 MB
Download: Calibre 5.17.0 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
