Calibre 6.8

calibre

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 6.8.0 new features:

Allow customizing the buttons available to the right of the search bar in the main calibre window via Preferences->Toolbars & menus->The buttons on the searchbar
Book details panel: Allow adjusting the space used by the cover with a splitter
Make splitter handles more visible in the calibre UI style
When sending by email to kindle dont include the author in the filename as amazon is currently reading the author from the file metadata but not the title

Bug fixes

Book list: Fix incorrect rendering of yes/no icons when they are configured to have only two values
Nook driver: Send books to the NOOK folder for the 2021 Nook model as well
Improve performance in very large libraries of various UI operations such as right clicking, marking books, etc.
Fix edit metadata dialog not remembering its position and improve how calibre restores window position and size on multi-monitor systems
Conversion: Fix CSS styles applied to SVG elements being discarded
EPUB Input: Fix empty adobe page number template file causing conversion to fail
E-book viewer: Fix rendering of comments in metadata display when using a dark color scheme
AZW3 Input: Fix svg images that use a prefix for the SVG namespace not being recognized
Edit book: Fix double clicking in the see what changed dialog not opening the file in the editor since calibre 6.0
Edit book: Fix modified indicator on images not working correctly when replacing the image
Amazon metadata download: Adapt the plugin for website changes