Calibre 5.18

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 5.18.0 new features:

Content server viewer: Improved search functionality Searching can now be done for whole words and regular expressions. And all search results are listed at once with some context for easy navigation.
E-book viewer: Allow fullscreening the image popup. Closes tickets: 1928596
E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents at a particular level by right clicking on one item of that level and choosing the option to expand/collapse
E-book viewer: Add shortcuts shift+home and shift+end to extend current selection to start/end of line
Book details: When creating rules to convert identifiers to URLs allow using {id_unquoted} to avoid quoting the identifier value. Closes tickets: 1927520
Review downloaded metadata: Allow double clicking on a cover to see it at a larger size. Closes tickets: 1927062
Annotations browser: Add a Refresh button. Closes tickets: 1927012

Bug fixes

Edit book: Fix ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments
Fix search and replace on identifiers not working if the replaced value has colons. Closes tickets: 1928579
Annotations browser: Sort the entries in order of position in book. Closes tickets: 1922691
ToC editor: Dark mode: Fix colors in location selection panel not dark
E-book viewer: Fix right or shift-clicking to extend selection not shrinking selection when the click is inside the selection. Closes tickets: 1926793
Avoid spurious errors on multiple simultaneous calibre launches. Closes tickets: 1927546
E-book viewer: Ignore mouse scroll events that would turn pages when editing notes. Closes tickets: 1925961
E-book viewer: Fix sorting bookmarks by title not working
Windows WPD driver: Fix an error reading the filesystem on some MTP based devices

Improved news sources

IEEE Spectrum

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