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 6.28 changelog:
New features
- Edit book: Show full path to book being edited in the status bar
- Edit book: When adding dictionaries allow directly a LibreOffice adding the dictionary just by choosing the language
- Edit book: When saving a copy add some convenience actions to edit the copy immediately either in the current editor window or a new window
- E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow right clicking to export only selected highlights
Bug fixes
- Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused Text search to sometimes not select matches correctly
- Edit book: When copying files do it in order so that the files are pasted in the same order when pasting into another editor instance
- Edit book: Fix smart tag insert not working correctly if the selected text starts with the closing angle bracket of a tag
- Save to disk: Do not limit the total path length to 240 characters on non-Windows platforms
- Fix incorrect cover for AZW3 version of calibre User Manual
- Content server: Change formatting of book details to match new de-emphasized titles based formatting in the main calibre program
- PDF metadata: Fix a regression that broke updating metadata in PDF files without an /Info dictionary
- NOOK driver: For the Glowlight 2023 write the calibre metadata files into the NOOK sub-folder as the firmware does not allow writing files into the root folder
- NOOK driver: Fix Glowlight 2023 not being detected on Linux and macOS
- E-book viewer: Make CFI calculation more robust especially on pages with very little content
- E-book viewer: Workaround bug in Chromium where getBoundingClientRect() fails sometimes leading to incorrect calculation of anchor positions
- Fix errors caused by .DS_Store files inserted into the .caltrash directory on macOS if the user happens to open .caltrash in Finder
New news sources
- Business Standard Print Edition by unkn0wn
Improved news sources
- National Geographic
- Bloomberg
- Endgadget
- Times of India
- Horizons
Calibre 6.28.1 changelog:
- Fixed a regression in 6.28.0 that could cause errors when merging some book records in Calibre.
Download: Calibre 6.28.1 | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 6.28.1 for MacOS | 285.0 MB
Download: Calibre 6.28.1 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
