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 6.18.0 changelog:
New features
- Cover download: Allowing saving alternate covers to disk or in the book"s data folder by right clicking on the cover
- Content server: Allow disabling full text search via the web interface
- When sending books to the device confirm the overwrite if the book already exists on the device
- E-book viewer: Handle horizontal wheel events as section jumps in paged mode
- Comic Input: When grayscaling comic images use 16bit gray instead of 8bit for better fidelity
- When using the PNG format for images this results in larger files but with better grayscaling fidelity.
- Add a new option in Preferences->Searching to disable keyboard searching in book list (i.e. you can turn off the behavior that pressing a key will jump to the first book whose title starts with that letter)
- Manage categories dialog: Use alternating row colors and allow adjusting row height
- Allow assigning a keyboard shortcut in Preferences->Shortcuts to open the data folder of a book
- Various improvements to syntax highlighting for the Markdown long text editor
Bug fixes
- Fix a regression in 6.16 that broke restoring of the database
- Tag browser: Fix using F2 to edit items not allowing completion
- Book details: Fix formatting of text when copying all book details in narrow mode
- Book details: Fix copy all not respecting line breaks in fields
- Fix a regression in previous release that broke scrolling when using the scroll_per_row tweak
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the category manager dialog in some situations
New news sources
- Irish Times Free by unkn0wn
- elEconomista.es and El Confidencial by Hugo Meza
Improved news sources
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NYTimes
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Economist
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Washington Post
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Irish Independent and Irish Times
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Live Mint
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Psych
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Hindu
Calibre 6.18.1 fixes a regression that broke setting metadata and generating PDF files in the macOS and Linux binary builds
Download: Calibre 6.18.1 | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 6.18.1 for MacOS | 285.0 MB
Download: Calibre 6.18.1 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
