Calibre 7.18

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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 7.18.0 changelog:

New features

E-book viewer: Read aloud: A new Text-to-Speech engine (Piper) that uses a neural network for realistic sounding voices
To use it access the viewer controls and click the Read aloud button or press 'Ctrl+S'. The neural network is run locally, no cloud services are used. Using the OS Text-to-Speech engine is still possible by clicking the configure button on the Read aloud control bar. Note that the new engine highlights the currently read sentence rather than word.
New experimental engine to convert PDF files with support for automatic header/footer removal
Turn it on via the PDF input section of the conversion dialog.
Content server: Viewer: Read Aloud: Implement word-by-word tracking when reading aloud if the browser and voice used support it, for example, Chromium on Windows, Firefox on Android and Safari on macOS
Image popup: Add a context menu with an option to reset the current zoom
Edit metadata dialog: Show the number of data files on the data files button

Bug fixes

Fix a regression in the previous release that broke using Tab key to move around the book list while editing cells
E-book viewer: Fix scrollbar position not updating during continuous scroll
E-book viewer: Fix a harmless error when the book contains page list references whose targets do not exist
Linux binary build: Fix missing libdeflate dependency

New news sources