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
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Kobo driver: Add supported for newly released firmware update
Bug fixes
Kobo driver: Fix a regression in the last release that caused book title to appear as unknown if metadata management was set to manual in calibre.
PDF Output: Do not fail if one of the fonts from the source document has no name metadata
Improved news sources
Wall Street Journal
ESPN
Al Jazeera (English)