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