Calibre 7.19.0

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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 7.19.0 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