calibre is an open source e-book library management software designed to help users read, transform and create ebooks.
Calibre can also download news from a sleuth of various sources and comes with a content server for online access.
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Here are some key features of "Calibre":
· Library Management
· E-book conversion
· Syncing to e-book reader devices
· Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
· Comprehensive e-book viewer
· Content server for online access to your book collection
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Features:
· Linux MTP driver: Detect devices that have MTP interfaces even if their USB ids are not known
· Content server: Allow picking a random book by clicking the 'Random book' link on the start page. You can also refresh the random book page to get a new random book
· E-book viewer: Add an option to hide the toolbars in the viewer window (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Show controls in the viewr preferences). You can unhide them by right clicking in the viewer window.
· Kobo driver: Speedup initial connect by avoiding unnecessary update of series metadata in some situations.
· Closes tickets: 1099190
· Get Books: Allow the store plugins to be dynamically loaded so that future website changes of a store dont require a calibre update to fix Get Books.
· Wireless driver: Always replace file when resending a previously sent book to the device, even if the title/author have changed.
· Add PocketBook Pro 912 driver.
· Closes tickets: 1099571
· When creating/exporting epub and mobi files, add the calibre book identifier as a special field in the book's metadata. This allows third party tools to identify the book record in calibre to which the file belongs.
· Wireless driver: Add support for using the book uuid as the filename
· Remove the experimental tag from the subset fonts feature, since there has been only one reported problem (now fixed) with it in the two months since it was released
Bug Fixes:
· Get Books: Update the amazon, waterstones and libri.de plugins to account for website changes
· MOBI Input: Do not choke on MOBI files with incorrectly encoded titles.
· Closes tickets: 1100601
· Font subsetting: Fix a bug in the parsing of the GSUB table that could cause some ligatures to not be included in the subset font
· E-book-viewer: Fix TOC links without anchors not scrolling to the top of the current flow
· LIT Input: Handle lit files that set an incorrect XML mimetype for their text.
· Closes tickets: 1099621
· Catalogs: Fix 'X' being droppen from isbns on export
· Closes tickets: 1098325
· Fix an error when editing date in the main book list and all visible dates are blank.
· Closes tickets: 1098675
· Fix calibre-smtp using incorrect escaping for non-ascii attachment filenames
· Closes tickets: 1098478
· Conversion: When subsetting fonts, handle multiple @font-face rules referring to the same physical font
· Content server: Update metadata when serving azw3 files
· CHM Input: Handle chm files that contain files with url unsafe filenames.
· Closes tickets: 1100610
· Content server: Fix custom icons for top level categories incorrect.
· Closes tickets: 1095016
· Kobo driver: When resending a file to the device, update the filesize in the Kobo db to prevent the device from deleting the file.
· Closes tickets: 1100607
New news sources:
· Asco de Vida by Krittika Goyal
· Schattenblick by ThB
Improved news sources:
· The Chronicle of Higher Education
· Smithsonian Magazine
· Philosophy Now
· The Economist
· Business Week Magazine
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