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 7.19.0 changelog:
New features
- E-book viewer: Halve the time taken to open large EPUB format books for the first time
- A four hundred thousand word EPUB book now opens in under a second on typical hardware.
- PDF new engine: Improve header/footer detection
- For column icons and grid view emblems, support icons for both light and dark themes
- News downloads: Mark links to locally available articles with a middle-dot
- When saving a layout also save the main window geometry
Bug fixes
- Windows: Read Aloud: Fix an occasional crash when stopping read aloud when using the legacy windows TTS engine
- Windows: Read Aloud: Fix clicking in text to change what is being read causing tracking of currently read word to fail when using the legacy Windows TTS engine
- Read aloud: Fix reading large numeric words causing text synchronization to fail when using some legacy TTS engines
- EPUB3 metadata: Fix setting series number to zero not working
- Comic Input: Handle comics whose internal files have control codes in their filenames
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in Japanese books that use text
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Read aloud for selected text
- Amazon metadata plugin: Workaround for downloads failing because Google discontinued its webcache
- Cover grid: Suppress the 2px border Qt draws for the list view
New news sources
- NYT News based on feeds by unkn0wn
Improved news sources
- NY Times
- NYT Book Review
- Courrier International
- Le Monde
- TLS Magazine
- Scientific American
- Engadget
Download: Calibre 7.19.0 | Portable | 170.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 7.19.0 for MacOS | 267.0 MB
Download: Calibre 7.19.0 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
