calibre versions

Read, edit, and convert your e-books directly from your Mac.
3.7
Aug 25, 2017
Editorial review
rating
Oct 20, 2016
Editorial review
rating
2.5
Oct 3, 2014
Review
2.1
Aug 29, 2014
Editorial review
rating
0.9
Sep 28, 2012
Review
0.8
May 6, 2011
Review
0.7
Jul 16, 2010
Review

What's new

v3.7 [Aug 25, 2017]
- New: Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new 'vl:' prefix.
- New: Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download buttons.
- New: Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size from 150px to 105px.
- New: Narrow layout: Fix wasted space to the left of the comments in the Book details panel.
- Server: Fix downloading files via the list of formats not working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS.
- Browser viewer: Fix controls help overlay not being displayed the first time the viewer is used.
- MOBI Output: Fix a regression causing a crash for some input documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties.
- DOCX Input: Fix framed lists being rendered with the frame inside the bullets instead of outside it.
- Fix a regression that could cause conversion to crash when using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX.
- Conversion: Fix remove first image option not working for comic input with the disable comic processing option.
- Server: Fix tooltip not working in the cover grid view.
- Workaround for Qt bug that prevented using the shift and ctrl keys with the touchscreen.
- Fix libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather than just library name.
- Server: Allow hyphens in user names.
- calibredb.exe: Fix misleading error message when connecting to a server with incorrect username or password.
- New news sources: Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks by fenuks, IDPixel and The Insider by bugmen00t.
- Improved news sources: Asian review of Books, Financial Times, National Post, and Go Comics.

v2.70 [Oct 20, 2016]
- New Feature: Edit Book: Add a tool to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.) that are not included in the book.
- New Feature: Make custom columns available in the Alter Tag Browser->Manage categories sub menu.
- Bug fix: Conversion - Fix incorrect resolution of references to resources in HTML files that exist in a folder level above the OPF file. This could lead to styles being incorrectly processed in such HTML files.
- Bug fix: Get Books - Update the amazon store plugins for website changes.
- Bug fix: Update ozon.ru metadata download plugin to fix searching for books by ISBN.
- Bug fix: Edit Book - Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the preferences dialog for changing color schemes.
- Bug fix: Edit Book - Better error message when user tries to open a Check Book item that refers to a file that has been deleted since the last time Check Book was run.
- New news sources: Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen.
- Improved news sources: Wired, Ambito, InfoWorld, Instapaper, San Jose Mercury News, South China Morning Post, Journal Gazette, JPost, Las Vegas Review, Marietta Daily Journal, DziennikBaltycki, biweekly, dwutygodnik, GRY Online, ESO, TVN24, and many more.

v2.1 [Aug 29, 2014]
- New Feature: Metadata review dialog: Automatically insert series number when selecting a series from the completion dropdown. Also if the user does not specify a series number, use 1 as the default, instead of not setting the series.
- Fixed Bug: Fix regression that broke error reporting for save to disk for books that contain no formats.
- Fixed Bug: Metadata download: Fix metadata download not working for titles that contain a apostrophes in languages other than English.
- Fixed Bug: Fix deleting a book from both the library and the device causing the next selected book to be incorrect, when the library is sorted by the On Device column.
- Fixed Bug: FB2 Output: Fix generation of FB2 sections based on a multi-level Table of Contents in the input document.
- Fixed Bug: Tolino Shine driver: Fix option to swap main memory and SD card not working on OS X.
- Fixed Bug: FB2 Input: Workaround for broken FB2 files produced by convertonlinefree.com.
- Fixed Bug: OS X: Workaround for OS X installs that have incorrect permissions set on their home directories. calibre will now no longer refuse to start on such machines.
- Fixed Bug: MOBI Input: Dont crash on corrupted JPG images.
- Fixed Bug: Fix column icons not displaying for custom comments type columns.
- Fixed Bug: Metadata review dialog: Show a confirmation for the 'Reject all remaining' button.

v0.9 [Sep 28, 2012]
- Wireless driver: Speed up deleting of multiple books
- E-book viewer: Add options to hide the scrollbar and show reading position in full screen mode.
- News download: Add a field to allow recipe authors to tell calibre to remove duplicate articles that a re present in more than one section from the download.
- Metadata download: Turn off the use of the published date for the earliest edition a book as the published date. The earliest edition was identified via worldcat.org, which has rather poor data, leading to the occasional incorrect result. If you want this feature back, you can turn it on again via Preferences->Metadata download.Bug Fixes:
- ODT Input: More workarounds for the image positioning markup produced by newer versions of LibreOffice.
- Metadata download dialog: Fix selected cover being changed when covers are re-sorted after download completes
- MTP driver: Ignore errors when getting the driveinfo.calibre file from the device and simply regenerate it
- E-book viewer: Use the system locale settings to display the 24/12 hour clock in full screen mode
- Content Server: Make OPDS initial page respect the fields to display tweak
- Fix regression that caused calibre to not use OPF files when adding books recursively from directories with multiple books per directory
- KF8 Output: Fix handling of input documents that have URL unsafe characters in the file names of their images.
- Fix enumeration type custom column not being merged. New news sources:
- PVP Online, Mobile Nations, The Verge and Television Without Pity by Krittika GoyalImproved news sources:
- Pubblico Giornale
- Der Spiegel
- Shortlist
- FHM UK
- Countryfile
- Cosmo UK
- The Sun UK
- NME

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