Calibre is a powerful open-source e-book library management software designed to help you efficiently manage your e-book collection. It allows users to convert e-books into various formats, sync with popular e-book readers, and read their e-books using the built-in viewer.
This versatile tool serves as an electronic library while offering capabilities such as format conversion, transforming news feeds into e-book format, and syncing e-books with reader devices. Furthermore, the integrated viewer supports a broad range of e-book formats, enabling users to access their library online through any web browser.
Calibre 7.19.0 changelog:
New features
- E-book viewer that significantly reduces the loading time for large EPUB books, halving the time required to open them.
- An EPUB book of 400,000 words now opens in under one second on standard hardware.
- Enhanced PDF engine with improved header/footer detection.
- Supports both light and dark themes for column icons and grid view emblems.
- News downloads will now mark links to locally available articles with a middle-dot for easier identification.
- Layouts now save main window geometry along with other settings.
Bug fixes
- Windows: Fixed occasional crashes occurring when stopping read-aloud, specifically with the legacy Windows TTS engine.
- Resolved an issue where clicking within the text to modify the reading selection wasn’t correctly tracking the currently read word using legacy TTS engines.
- Addressed synchronization failures with large numeric words during read-aloud on some legacy TTS engines.
- EPUB3 metadata issue where setting the series number to zero was not functioning correctly has been fixed.
- Comic Input adjustments made for handling comics with control codes in their internal filenames.
- Fixed search functionality for Japanese books utilizing text in the e-book viewer.
- Rectified a regression preventing the read-aloud feature for selected text from working in the previous release.
- Amazon metadata plugin now has a workaround for download failures due to the discontinuation of Google’s webcache.
- The 2px border that Qt draws for the cover grid view has been suppressed.
New news sources
- Added NYT News based on feeds by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources
- New York Times
- NYT Book Review
- Courrier International
- The World
- TLS Magazine
- Scientific American
- Engadget
Download: Calibre 7.19.0 | Portable Version | 170.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 7.19.0 for MacOS | 267.0 MB
Download: Calibre 7.19.0 for Linux
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