Calibre 8.1.1 [Update]
Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer.
It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.
Calibre's features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats, giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.
Calibre 8.1.0 changelog:
New features
- Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to edit it with an external program
- Virtual library tabs: When the tabs are locked prevent them from being re-ordered as well
- FreeBSD: Add support for connecting to devices, contributed by Guido Falsi
Bug fixes
- macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused calibre:// URLs to no longer work
- macOS: Fix a regression in calibre 8 that prevented icons in menus from being rendered
- Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation settings not being applied correctly when generating KEPUB to put on the device
- KEPUB Output: Include leading whitespace in kobo sentence span tags. This prevents unsightly breaks when highlighting across formatted text on the Kobo
- Content server: Fix FB2 books not readable via the in-browser viewer
- Edit book: Add text narration: Fix preferred voice for language setting being ignored
- E-book viewer: Use IPC to update annotations when calibre is running. Avoids possible loss of annotations in the Annotations browser due to db being locked
- Ensure calibre temp files are deleted even on program crash
- Fix incorrect minimums on font size changing controls in viewer
- Fix regression in previous release causing incorrect rendering of layout menu on some macOS machines
- Fix archive formats such as ZIP not being indexed for full text search
Improved news sources
- Horizons
- Economist
- Granta
Calibre 8.1.1 fix:
- Version 8.1.1 fixes a regression causing an error that does not affect functionality on startup on macOS