Calibre v0.7.35 (12-23-10) eBook Mgmt Software

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Calibre v0.7.35 (12-23-10) 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

* Add a simple to use Rich text editor for comments to the edit metadata dialog.

"You can now easily add formatting like bold/italic/lists/headings/colors/etc. to book comments via the edit metadata dialog"
* E-book viewer: Add a right click menu item 'Inspect' that allows you to inspect the underlying HTML/CSS source of the currently displayed content
* When deleting books from the library if a device is connected and the books are also present on the device ask the user if the books should be deleted from the device, the library, or both.
* Add device drivers for Trekstore eBook Player 7, Sanda Bambook, ALuratek Color, Samsung Galaxy, LG Optimus, Motorola Droid 2 and Sunstech EB700

Closes tickets: 8021 [External link] , 7966 [External link] , 7973 [External link] , 7956 [External link]
* Add an entry to the menu of the calibre library button to select a random book from your calibre library

Closes tickets: 8010 [External link]
* SONY driver: Add a couple of special extra collections for all books by author and all books by title, to workaround the broken sorting on newer SONY models. To enable these collections, go to Preferences->Plugins->Device Interface plugins and customize the SONY plugin.
* Edit metadata dialog: When downloading metadata, make the table of matching books sortable

Closes tickets: 7951 [External link]
* Add a success message after a database integrity check completes successfully
* Search and replace: When using regular expression mode, add a special input field '{template}' that allows use the templating language to create complex input fields. Also allow setting of series_index by search and replace using the same syntax as in the book list, namely, Series Name [series number]
* Bulk metadata edit: Add option to automatically set cover from the cover present in the actual ebook files

Closes tickets: 7947 [External link]
* E-book viewer: Show format of current book in the title bar.

Closes tickets: 7974 [External link]
* Add a tweak to control how author names are displayed in the Tag Browser and Content Server
* FB2 Output: Restore sectionizing functionality

Bug Fixes

* When in narrow layout, reserve 40% of available width in the book details panel for series/formats/etc and use the rest for comments

Closes tickets: 8028 [External link]
* PDB Input: Fix failure to block-indent PML sections

Closes tickets: 8019 [External link]
* Tag browser: When renaming items dont reset the library view and try not to scroll the Tag Browser itself
* Conversion pipeline: Fix broken link rewriting for inline CSS embedded in HTML
* Fix regression in 0.7.34 that broke recipes using extra_css to link to SONY device fonts

Closes tickets: 7995 [External link]
* SONY driver: Don't upload thumbnails as they slow down post disconnect processing on older models
* Content server: Fix a bug that allowed remote users to read arbitrary png/gif/js/css/html files

Closes tickets: 7980 [External link]
* On X11 initialize fontconfig in the GUI thread as Qt also uses fontconfig internally and fontconfig is not thread safe. Fixes a few random crashes on calibre strartup
* When using the remove specific format actions, only show available formats in the selected books

Closes tickets: 7967 [External link]
* Linux binary build: If setting system default locale fails, try setting locale to en_US.UTF-8 instead
* Have the title sort tweak respected everywhere
* PocketBook 701 driver: Swap the main memory and card drives on windows
* Fix regression in templating that caused series_index to be shown even when book had no series

Closes tickets: 7949 [External link]
* Content server: Fix regressiont hat broke browsing by rating
* Content server OPDS feeds: Fix parsing of author names as XML

Closes tickets: 7938 [External link]

New news sources

* NRC Handelsblad (EPUB version) by veezh
* CND and wenxuecity - znjy by Derek Liang
* Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

* Business Week Magazine
* Gazet van Antwerpen
* La Nacion
* New England Journal of Medicine
* Journal of Hospital Medicine
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

I posted this for all you geeks out there getting brand new eReaders/tablets.
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