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 6.1.0 new features:
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Full text search: Add a button to re-index a book, useful if the book"s contents have been changed outside calibre
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Search queries now support quoting using "docstrings" for easier escaping
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Linux installer: Check for libEGL as the QtGui module in Qt 6 links against it and many Linux servers dont have it installed
Bug fixes
- macOS: Blacklist older versions of the DeDRM plugin as they caused crashes and failures to add books.
- Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused crashes in the Manage authors dialog
- Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke touch screen interaction
- Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused a few checkboxes to stop working
- Linux: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke handling of mouse clicks on some Wayland systems with a touchpad
- ToC Editor: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke styling/images in the preview panel
- Windows: Fix window titlebars not dark in dark mode
- Full text search: Show a warning when indexing/searching a library on an FAT drive
- News download: Do not add aborted/failed article titles to the comments metadata
- Full text search: Fix books edited with the Edit book tool not being automatically re-indexed
- HTML Input: Fix handling of deeply nested files on Windows
- Fix a regression preventing using a non-integer value for the tweak to change book details font size
- Fix moving library not moving the full text search index
- Fix some custom icons in the calibre config directory not overriding the theme/builtin icons
- Linux installer: Fix glibc version check also being done when installing older versions
- Windows installer: Refuse to install on Windows 8 as thanks to Qt 6 calibre 6 does not work on Windows 8
- Update the BigBookSearch metadata plugin for website changes
Improved news sources
- The Economic Times India
Download: Calibre 6.1.0 | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 6.1.0 for MacOS | 274.0 MB
Download: Calibre 6.1.0 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
