Calibre v0.7.40 (1-14-11) eBook Mgmt Software

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Calibre v0.7.40 (1-14-11) eBook Mgmt Software

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Product Description:
calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

* Library Management

calibre manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e., a single entry in your library that may correspond to actual e-book files in several formats.

calibre can sort the books in your library by: Title, Author, Date added, Date published, Size, Rating, Series, etc.

In addition, it supports extra searchable metadata:
o Tags: A flexible system for categorizing your collection however you like
o Comments: A long form entry that you can use for book description, notes, reviews, etc.

You can easily search your book collection for a particular book. calibre supports searching any and all of the fields mentioned above. You can construct advanced search queries by clicking the helpful "Advanced search" button to the left of the search bar.

You can export arbitrary subsets of your collection to your hard disk arranged in a fully customizable folder structure.

Finally, calibre will even go out onto the internet to find book metadata based on existing title/author or ISBN information. It can download various types of metadata and covers for your books, automatically. The metadata system is written using plugins so that different types of metadata sources can be supported in the future.
* E-book conversion

calibre can convert from a huge number of formats to a huge number of formats. It supports all the major e-book formats. The full list of formats can be found here.

The conversion engine has lots of powerful features. It can rescale all font sizes, ensuring the output e-book is readable no matter what font sizes the input document uses. It can automatically detect/create book structure, like chapters and Table of Contents. It can insert the book metadata into a "Book Jacket" at the start of the book.
* Syncing to e-book reader devices

calibre has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for a large number of devices, the complete list of which is here. Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the library and creation of collections on the device based on the tags defined in the library. If a book has more than one format available, calibre automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device. If none of the formats is suitable, calibre will automatically convert the e-book to a format suitable for the device before sending it.
* Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form

calibre can automatically fetch news from websites or RSS feeds, format the news into a ebook and upload to a connected device. The ebooks include the full versions of the articles, not just the summaries. Examples of supported news sites include:
o The New York Times
o The Wall Street Journal
o The Economist
o Time
o Newsweek
o The Guardian
o ESPN
o and many, many more…

calibre has over three hundred news sources and the news system is plugin based, allowing users to easily create and contribute new sources to calibre. As a result the collection of news sources keeps on growing!

If you are interested in adding support for a news site, read the User Manual. Once you have successfully created a new recipe, you can share it with other users by posting it in the calibre forum [External link] or sending it to the calibre developers for inclusion in calibre.
* Comprehensive e-book viewer

calibre has a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major ebook formats. It has full support for Table of Contents, bookmarks, CSS, a reference mode, printing, searching, copying, customizing the rendering via a user style sheet, embedded fonts, etc.
* Content server for online access to your book collection
Changelog:
New Features

* A new 'highlight matches' search mode

"There is now a checkbox next to the search bar named 'Highlight'. If you check it, searching will highlight all matched books instead of filtering the book list to all matched books."
* RTF Input: Improved support for conversion of images. The bug where some images were shrunk should no longer happen
* Template language: Allow you to create your own formatting functions. Accessible via Preferences->Advanced->Template functions
* News download: Convert various HTML 5 tags into <div> to support readers that cannot handle HTML 5 tags
* RTF metadata: Add support for publisher and tags.

Closes tickets: 6657 [External link]
* BibTeX catalog: Add support for custom columns
* TXT Input: Support for textile markup
* Various minor tweaks to improve usability of Preferences->Plugins
* TXT Output: Convert <hr> to scene break marker.
* Support for the Archos 70
* SONY Driver: Add an option to automatically refresh the covers on every connect. Accessible via: Preferences->Plugins->Device interface plugins
* Add access to the larger template editor from plugboards via context menu.
* Speed improvement when connecting a large library to a device
* Speedup when searching on multiple words in a large library
* TXT Input: Add a heauristic formatting processor

Bug Fixes

* Fix bug that caused automatic news removal to remove any book that has a tag that contains the word 'news' instead of only books that have the tag News
* Refactor the downloading social metadata message box to allow canceling.

Closes tickets: 8234 [External link]
* Kobo drive does not deal with Null value in DateCreated column

Closes tickets: 8308 [External link]
* MOBI Input: Fix regression that caused images placed inside svg tags to be discarded
* Fix selecting Tablet output profile would actually select the Samsung Galaxy S profile
* Catalog generation: Fix a condition that could cause TOCs to not be properly generated in MOBI format catalogs

Closes tickets: 8295 [External link]
* Zip file reading: Be more tolerant when a zip file has a damaged file directory
* RTF Input: Various code cleanups. Go back to trying to handle unicode mappings without pre-processing. This will mean that some RTF files that used to convert, won't anymore. Please open tickets and attach them.

Closes tickets: 8171 [External link]
* ImageMagick: When identifying an image don't read the entire image
* FB2 Output: Add cover to FB2 metadata.
* Fix inability to customize builting recipe when more than one recipe has the same name

Closes tickets: 8281 [External link]
* RTF Input: Fix regression that broke the Preprocess HTML option
* Fix XSS vulnerability in content server.

Closes tickets: 7980 [External link]
* TXT Output: Clean up and produce consistant output. Spacing around headings. Headings are not indented when using the remove paragraph spacing option.
* Catalog generation: Handle invalid covers gracefully
* Email settings: Before displaying the email test dialog warn the user that it will expose their email password
* PDB Output: Fix regression that caused some PDB files to not work with other software

Closes tickets: 8231 [External link]

New news sources

* Yakima Herald and Tri-City Herald by Laura Gjovaag
* Wichita Eagle by Jason Cameron
* Pressthink and Zero Hedge by Darko Miletic
* tyzden by zemiak
* El Correo by desUBIKado
* Cicero by mad
* El Publico by Gerardo Diez

Improved news sources

* Financial Times UK
* Globe and Mail
* Wired Daily
* MIT Technology Review
* MSNBC
* expansion.com
* New York Times
* Heraldo de Aragon
* Exiled online
Download:
Windows XP/Vista/7
http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/win32
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Calibre_d6438.html

Linux
http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

Mac OS X
http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/osx32
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