Calibre 0.6.12

Calibre 0.6.12 is designed to give you a one-stop solution to your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Major Features:

1. Calibre is a ebook library management application. Its features are divided into the following categories:
   • Library Management
   • Format conversion (all major ebook formats can be converted from)
   • Syncing to ebook reader devices
   • Fetching news from the web and converting it into ebook form
   • Viewing many different ebook formats
   • Giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser/email client
2. Library Management:calibre is primarily a ebook cataloging program. It manages your ebook collection for you. It 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 support sorting the books in its database by:
   • Title
   • Author
   • Date
   • Publisher
   • Rating
   • Size (Max size of all formats)
   • Series
   • Supports extra metadata fields that can be searched on:
   • Comments: A general purpose field that can be used to describe the book, add notes on it, etc.
   • Tags: A flexible system to categorize books. You can tag any book with any custom tag to indicate subject, read status, category, etc.
   • The database view also supports filtering by searching on the metadata. You can perform advanced searching on individual metadata fields by clicking the advanced search button to the left of the search bar.
   • You can export subsets of the books in your collection by using the Save to disk button.
   • You can fetch metadata from the internet for a book based on its ISBN number or its title/author, instead of manually entering the metadata. You can also fetch a cover image based on the ISBN number.
3. Format Conversion: calibre supports conversion from a dozen different ebook formats to LRF and EPUB. An graphical interface to the conversion software can be accessed by clicking the "Convert E-books" button. The commandline access is via the command any2lrf and any2epub. The conversion is very powerful and supports advanced typesetting features like tables, dropcaps, inline images, embedded fonts, etc.
4. Syncing to E-reader Devices: calibre has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for the SONY PRS 500/505/700, Cybook Gen 3, Amazon Kindle (1 and 2) and the iPhone (with the stanza reader software). Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the library and the creation of collections on the device based on the tags defined in the library view. If an book has more than one format available, calibre automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device.
5. Fetching News: calibre can automatically fetch news from a number of websites/RSS feeds, format the news into a ebook and upload to a connected device. At the moment there is support for generating LRF/EPUB ebooks. The ebooks include the *full* versions of the articles, not just the summaries. Supported news sites include:
   • Newsweek
   • New York Times
   • The BBC
   • The Economist
   • The Wall Street Journal
   • ESPN
   • and many, many more...
6. Viewing E-books: calibre has a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major ebook formats.
7. Content server: calibre has a builtin web server that gives allows you to access your ebook collection using a simple browser from any computer anywhere in the world. It can also email your books and downloaded news to you automatically.

Enhancements:

• Ignore invalid proxies
• Implement #3447 (Option to limit parallel processes)
• calibredb: Handle the case when the user specifies the same to delete id multiple times
• calibre has a new installation layout with all the resources (icons, fonts, etc) in separate files. Also on linux, the install and develop commands have changed, they no longer modify the system pythonpath. See the INSTALL file for details.
• New recipe for The New Republic by cix3
• Fix #3425 (Messages often incorrectly display unicode text)
• Stanza integration: Show number of books available for each tag/series/author in the catalog view
• Fix #3424 (Batch conversion to epub failed 0.6.11)
• Implement #3408 (Disable Latest version display)
• Implement #3429 ("Cancel All" or similar when editing a large group of books)
• Change recipes to using ISO639 language codes
• calibredb:Fix regression causing calibredb to not notify the main GUI of a change
• Fix #3405 (Incorrect display of eReader small caps)
• Search box: use system default colr as normal background instead of white
• Add a wiazrd to help in the creation of header and footer removal regexps
• Stanza integration:Implement result pagination. Fixes #3412 (Add alphabetical sub directories to content server)
• Stanza integration: Increase timeouts when sending covers/book files to one hour
• Disable cover browsing and tag view buttons when viewing books on device
• Fix #3448 (Problems loading HTML files in v6.11)
• Implement #3444
  
• Split up English recipes by country
• Use native (KDE/GNOME) file open dialogs on linux
• Preliminary driver for the Fox It? ESlick
• Fix bug causing the calibre server to open files in read-write mode instead of read-only
• Updated recipe for The CLimate Progress Blog
• Fix #3403 (calibre-server alt text wrong)
• Fix #3451 (converting a PRC to EPUB creates a shortened epub file)
• Implement #3418 (Break long lines in txt files)
• Fix #3288 (Published Date issue)
• Ebook viewer: j/k keys scroll by a small amount again