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: Insert image dialog: Add buttons to change the image thumbnail size.
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on a format to open it in the calibre editor.
Edit metadata dialog: Allow viewing or editing specific formats by right clicking the format in the formats list.
When creating a metadata jacket allow HTML in custom long text columns.
Content server: When editing metadata add a button to remove the existing cover. Note that after removing the cover a auto-generated cover is displayed instead. You might need to hit refresh in your browser to see the change.
Content server: Date edit: Add buttons to clear the date or set it to today's date.
Bug fixes
When showing books on the device, disable keyboard shortcuts for actions that operate on library books.
Content server: Custom List: Fix a zero series index being displayed as one.
Content server: Fix covers not being updated in downloaded copies of some books.
PDF Output: Fix an error that could occur in rare circumstances when using the option to read page margins from the input document.
Edit book: Check book: Fix an error if a filename contains a % character.
PDF Output: Fix CSS opacity property causing text to not be rendered. Now opacity is ignored, as it is unsupported by Qt WebKit.
Create custom column dialog: Ensure that the format numbers field is always visible.
Improved news sources
Washington Post.