Calibre 8.8
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 8.8 changelog:
New features
- E-book viewer: Improve display of Lookup results from Google
- Kobo driver: Add support for latest Tolino firmware
- Conversion: Handle -epub-text-emphasis properties used in some Japanese language EPUB books
- Piper Neural text to speech engine: re-write the backend used to run the Piper speech models to no longer need an external binary for improved performance and robustness
Bug fixes
- Edit book: Reports: Fix sorting by name of CSS rules
- Fix template based custom column of tags type not being treated as multi valued when using it for similarity searches
- When adding books recursively do not try to import folder whose names named with an ebook file extension. These are, for example, generated by Apple Books
- EPUB3 Output: Fix various issues with processing nav files when they contain more than just the Table of Contents and are not included in the spine.
Improved news sources
- Economist
- Press Information Bureau
- Indian Express
- Wall Street Journal
- De Tijd
- Washington Post