Calibre 7.0.0

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 7.0.0 changelog:

New features

The ability to add notes to any author, tag, series, etc. in calibre with links and images
E-book viewer: Add support for HTML image maps
Content server home page: Show the three most recently added books in the default library
Content server: Add button to return to book details page at top level of controls
Content server: Book details: Open links in comments fields in the same window rather than a new window
Add a "Show items in selected books" choice to Manage tags and Manage authors
Show the previously used language, if any, second in the language selection drop down

Bug fixes

Metadata download: Fix downloads from Google not working in Europe because of the GDPR
Fix editing dates with days sometimes off by one day
Edit book: Fix highlighting for special characters not visible when the cursor is on the line with the special character
Fix embedding metadata showing infinite error dialogs on windows if a file is locked by another program
PDF Output: Fix an error when trying to set header or footer with an input document that has invalid content after the main body
E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix clicking on empty spaces causing read aloud to restart from beginning of chapter
Book details: Fix Manage authors via context menu not working
E-book viewer: Showing chrome should close an active footnote popup first and only show chrome if the user repeats the action
Fix very slow metadata updates on some PDF files
Catalogs: Do not erase any tags the user adds to a catalog book entry when the catalog is re-generated
Linux installer: Fix downloading of signatures for older versions
Fix editing non-active Virtual library changes sort of book list