Kovid Goyal - ( Open Source)
Calibre is a simple and comprehensive e-books manager application that makes it easy to organize your library.
Calibre is an intuitive and comprehensive e-books manager software that simplifies the organization of library information and integrates a fast and efficient converter. It allows you to view your e-books, sort them using different criteria, convert them - individually or in batch, edit their metadata and retrieve information from the Internet, having also full support for the management of the table of contents, bookmarks, CSS and more. Additionally, the application offers a complete module for synchronizing your library with some e-books readers such as Sony PRS, Cybook Gen Booken, Amazon Kindle, iPhone, etc. The application now has an RSS feed aggregator to follow the news and convert to e-book format - EPUB, LRF, HTML, LIT, MOBI, PRC, AZQ, AZW1, TPZ, TXT, RTF, PDF, SNB, CBZ, CBR, CBC, ZIP, RAR. Calibre supports the majority of e-book formats. You can freely access your collection of e-books online by using the EWS, having the possibility to send books and download others. The compatibility of the software with smartphones optimizes downloading books for mobile devices. Using keyboard shortcuts, you can use Calibre without ever touching the mouse. Just press the D key to send the selected books to the device you have connected to your computer, or press C to convert them to other formats. To read it right on your computer, just press V.
# New Features
- A new tool to apply Tag mapper rules to existing books in the library. To use it, go to Preferences->Toolbars and add the tool to the toolbar.
- Kindle driver: Detect books in Amazon's new KFX format present on e-ink kindles.
# Bug Fixes
- TXT Output: Do not fail when input contains HTML comments with double hyphens in the comment text.
- E-book polishing: Show a confirmation if the user selects both the add and remove jacket actions.
- Edit Book: Fix order of checkboxes in filter style information tool is random
- PDB Input: Ingore malformed metadata records.
- Revert change in previous release to workaround broken xdg-open on linux. Apparently xdg-open is so badly broken that working around it is not possible.
- ZIP Output: Fix system encoding being used instead of UTF-8 for html files.
# Improved news sources
- The Philosopher's Magazine
- Harper's Magazine
- Ambito
- Perfil
- Telam
- Infobae.com
- La Nacion
- Clarin