Calibre 6.18.1

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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