Kovid Goyal - ( Open Source)
Calibre is a simple and comprehensive e-books manager application that makes it easy to organize your library.
Calibre is an intuitive and comprehensive e-books manager software that simplifies the organization of library information and integrates a fast and efficient converter. It allows you to view your e-books, sort them using different criteria, convert them - individually or in batch, edit their metadata and retrieve information from the Internet, having also full support for the management of the table of contents, bookmarks, CSS and more. Additionally, the application offers a complete module for synchronizing your library with some e-books readers such as Sony PRS, Cybook Gen Booken, Amazon Kindle, iPhone, etc. The application now has an RSS feed aggregator to follow the news and convert to e-book format - EPUB, LRF, HTML, LIT, MOBI, PRC, AZQ, AZW1, TPZ, TXT, RTF, PDF, SNB, CBZ, CBR, CBC, ZIP, RAR. Calibre supports the majority of e-book formats. You can freely access your collection of e-books online by using the EWS, having the possibility to send books and download others. The compatibility of the software with smartphones optimizes downloading books for mobile devices. Using keyboard shortcuts, you can use Calibre without ever touching the mouse. Just press the D key to send the selected books to the device you have connected to your computer, or press C to convert them to other formats. To read it right on your computer, just press V.
# New Features
- Edit Book: Add a 'Smart Comment' tool to easily comment/uncomment text
> Press Ctrl+` to trigger the tool, or add the tool to your toolbar via Preferences->Toolbar->Tools for all editors. It will either insert comments around the selected text or uncomment an existing comment if the cursor is inside one.
- Tag mapper: Add new rule types to upper-case, lower-case or capitalize tags
- Markdown input: Allow the 'extra' convenience extension as a shortcut for enabling multiple other extensions. Also add the Attribute List and Admonition extensions. Finally, update the markdown library used by calibre
# Bug Fixes
- Amazon metadata download: Fix for website change at amazon.com that prevented ratings from being downloaded.
- Tag mapper: Prevent cycles in the replacement rules from causing the tag mapper to hang
- Do not fail on windows systems where the system function to get the users home folder fails
- E-book viewer: Set the foreground color as well as the background color for the reference mode popup. Makes it legible even when the user specifies a different color theme for the viewer.