Product Description:
Changelog: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
Download:New Features
* Nook Color driver: Send downloaded news to the My Files/Magazines folder on the Nook Color. Also when getting the list of books on the device look at all folders in My Files, not just My Files/Books.
* MOBI Output: Use the book uuid as the ASIN field and set cdetype to EBOK to allow Amazon furthest read tracking to work with calibre generated MOBI files.
Closes tickets: 8721 [External link]
* Comic input: Add an option to override the image size in the generated comic. Useful if you have a device whose screen size is not coverred by one of the available output profiles.
Closes tickets: 7837 [External link]
* Add a restore database option to the Library maintenance menu in the GUI
* TXT Output: Allow output in the textile markup language
* PML Output: Create multi-level Table of Contents
* Driver for the Archos 7O
* Search and Replace in the Bulk metadata dialog can now operate on the title_sort field as well
Closes tickets: 8732 [External link]
* Allow changing the case of authors/tags/series etc. via the edit metadata dialog
* Connect/share menu: Re-organize to make it a little less easy to select email and delete instead of just email by mistake
* Heuristics: Improved Scene break detection and add option to control what scene breaks are replaced by.
* SONY driver: Add option to not preserve aspect ratio of cover thumbnails.
* BiBTeX catalog: Add on device column when available
* Add search to the plugin preferences dialog
Bug Fixes
* Fix a bug that could cause fiels to be lost when changing metadata on east asian windows installs if the title and/or author is very long.
Closes tickets: 8620 [External link]
* Tag browser: Fix searching with items in a user category not owrking if the main category is hidden
Closes tickets: 8741 [External link]
* Make completion for author/series/tags/etc. fields less disruptive
* Fix regression that broke the content server when user categories/custom columns are present
* Catalog generation: Handle user supplied templates more robustly
* Move the Tags to apply to newly added books option into Preferences->Adding books
Closes tickets: 8730 [External link]
* Workaround for bug in Qt on OS X that caused crashes when reading metedata from two or more EPUB files with HTML covers that used embedded fonts. Now the embedded fonts are ignored on OS X.
Closes tickets: 8643 [External link]
* Fix regression that broke the use of the group searched terms tweak
Closes tickets: 8739 [External link]
* Fix template program regression triggered by recursively calling the processor
* Fix mimetype sent by content server for PDB files
* OPF: Write title_sort as a calibre custom metadata field rather than as a file-as attribute on the title. This conforms to the OPF spec
Closes tickets: 7883 [External link]
* SONY driver: Fix thumbnails being sent to SD card are sent to the wrong location. Also use correct thumbnail size so that the SONY does not regenerate the thumbnail on disconnect
* Do not discard the result of a conversion if the user opens the edit metadata dialog while the conversion is running
Closes tickets: 8672 [External link]
* CHM Input: When the chm file lacks a hhc, lookf for index.html instead
Closes tickets: 8688 [External link]
* EPUB Input: Filter some invalid media types from the spine
* RTF Input: More encoding handlig fixes.
Closes tickets: 8678 [External link]
* Linux binary build: Restore functioning of CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM, which was accidentally removed a few versions ago
* RTF Output: Retain html headings as rtf headings when converting to rtf. Also fix output of italics.
Closes tickets: 8641 [External link] , 8640 [External link]
* LIT Input: Fix regression that broke handling of LIT files that contain txt data instead of html
* MOBI Input: Handle more non printing ASCII codes
Closes tickets: 8646 [External link]
* Handle empty cover files more gracefully
Closes tickets: 8656 [External link]
* Catalog geenration: Fix error when Pocketbook is connected and trying to geenrate catalog
Closes tickets: 8651 [External link]
* Heuristics: Italicize common cases, reduce false positives.
* Fix regression that caused reporting of device connection errors to break
New news sources
* Cinco Dias and BBC Mundo by Luis Hernandez
* Explosm by Andromeda Rabbit
* Cinco Dias by Luis Hernandez
Improved news sources
* MSN Japan
* The Onion
* La Tribuna de
* Wall Street Journal
* 20 Minutos
* LA Times
* Endgadget Japan
* Ledevoir
* Vijesti
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