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:
Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records.
Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window.
Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files.
Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files.
E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title.
Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold.
Bug fixes:
PDF Input: Fix a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of PDF to be significantly worse.
E-book viewer: Fix very slow loading for HTML files with very many images on Linux.
Content server: Fix a regression in 3.14 that removed the separator between books in the detailed list view mode.
Edit book: Fix SVG files not being beautified by the Beautify all files tool.
Edit book: Fix searching in selected files not searching SVG files.
Fix Tweaks help string not being displayed translated.
Edit metadata dialog: Fix distorted rendering of some labels in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances.
Prevents dropping of a book onto itself from triggering the merge dialog, which should reduce accidental triggers.
New news sources:
El Cronista by Darko Miletic.
Improved news sources:
Slate.
New York Times Book Review.
The Independent UK.
NYTimes Tech Beat.
New York Times.
Cracked.com.