Abstract: Calibre is a software program that is developed by a devoted reader and brilliant programmer, kovidgoyal. The program is free and open source, available for MAC, Windows PC, and Linux users. Calibre can also talk to a few e-book reader devices. calibre can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. calibre can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. With it, you don't have to use a pdf converter to convert the ebook formats to a great extent.

Calibre stores your ebook files in a database along with easily editable metadata describing each book. Calibre is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in several formats. Calibre is developed in pure Python and it is cross platform, running on OS X, Linux, and Windows.

New Features

 

1.Template language: Speedup evaluation of general program mode templates by pre-compiling them to python. If you experience errors with this optimization, you can turn it off via Preferences->Tweaks. Also other miscellaneous optimizations in evaluating templates with composite columns.

MOBI Output: Add an option to not convert all images to JPEG when creating MOBI files. For maximum compatibility of the produced MOBI files, do not use this option.

Closes tickets: 954025  (Related link: epub to mobi)
2.Add iPad3 Output Profile

Bug Fixes

KF8 Input: Add support for KF8 files with obfuscated embedded fonts
Closes tickets: 953260 

 

Make the stars in the book list a little larger on windows >= vista

Revised periodical Section layout, for touchscreen devices resolving iBooks problem with tables spanning multiple pages

Read dc:contributor metadata from MOBI file.

 

KF8 Input: Recognize OpenType embedded fonts as well.

 

Fix regression in 0.8.41 that caused file:/// URLs to stop working in the news download system on windows. When setting metadata in MOBI files fix cover not being updated if the mobi file has its first image record as the cover. (More tips: convert mobi to epub)

Fix column coloring rules based on the size column not working ï¼›