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
- Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book's formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel.
- Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog.
- Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard
- Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.
- On Linux, use the system tray icon from the system theme, if available
# Bug Fixes
- Fix for error when connecting to some Android phones/tablets that have an SD card on OS X and Linux
- Linux build: Fix problem with pointing hand mouse cursor not using the system theme on some Linux systems
- Fix the device view state not being saved when a connected device is ejected/disconnected
- Edit Book: Fix saving fails if the original file is deleted during editing session
- E-book viewer: When doing a search do not match text in comments, attributes and inappropriate tags, such as <script> and <style>
# Improved news sources
- Gamasutra