Calibre 8.6
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 8.6 changelog:
New features
- Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own password via the web interface
- Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of magnitude
- Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying the sort value for series in the Tag browser
- Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3
- Add 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in'" buttons to Manage authors and Manage Items
Bug fixes
- Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
- Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books
- Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work even if something re-orders the books in the book list. They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time the dialog is created
- Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error
New news sources
- La Presse by quatorze
Improved news sources
- Economist
- 1843
- Financial Times
- PC World
- Muy Interesante Mexico
- Hindu Business Line
- Business Standard
- Hindustan Times
- The Week
- Times of India
- Hindustan
- Financial Times
- Reason