calibre can also talk to a few e-book reader devices. calibre can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. calibre can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading.
calibre is primarily a ebook cataloging program. calibre stores your ebook files in a database along with easily editable metadata describing each book.
calibre is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in several formats.
calibre is developed in pure Python and it is cross platform, running on OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Here are some key features of "calibre":
· Library Management.
· Format Conversion.
· Syncing to E-reader Devices.
· Fetching News.
· Viewing E-books.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Features:
· Make author names in the Book Details panel clickable. Clicking them takes you to the wikipedia page for the author by default. You may have to tell calibre to display author names in the Book details panel first via Preferences->Look & Feel->Book details. You can change the link for individual authors by right clicking on the author`s name in the Tag Browser and selecting Manage Authors.
· Get Books: Add `Open Books` as an available book source
· Get Books: When a free download is available for a search result, for example, for public domain books, allow direct download of the book into your calibre library.
· Support for detecting and mounting reader devices on FreeBSD. Closes tickets: 802708
· When creating a composite custom column, allow the use of HTML to create links and other markup that display in the Book details panel
· Add the swap_around_comma function to the template language.
· Drivers for HTC G2, Advent Vega, iRiver Story HD, Lark FreeMe and Moovyman mp7
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