calibre 0.6.4

calibre 0.6.4 offers an ideal solution to all your needs of e-book. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Major Features:

1. 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
   • It also 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.
2. 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 full list of supported formats. The conversion is very powerful and supports advanced typesetting features like tables, dropcaps, inline images, embedded fonts, etc.
3. 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.
4. 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
   • The news fetching subsystem has a modular design, which makes it easy to add support for more sites. If you are interested in adding support for a site, read the User Manual. Once you have created a recipe, consider sharing it with other users by attaching it to User Recipes.
5. Viewing E-books
   
   • calibre has a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major ebook formats.
6. 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:

• Initial implementation of aq driver for the Irex Illiad
• Add OS X support to the Illiad DR1000 driver
• Fix #3019 (Problem converting prc to epub)
• EPUB Output: Remove hyperlinks with no content as they cause rendering artifacts in browser based renderers
• Fix #3010 (Special characters in tags are not escaped)
• Handle author names that end with a period correctly when saving a single format to disk
• Fix #2997 (Be Book)
• Fix #3016 (lxml.etree._Element' object has no attribute 'href)
• Fix #3022 (Receiving error during convert from pdf to any file)
• Various fixes form conversion from PML and PDF
• Improved Newsweek recipe (thanks to GRiker)
• RTF Input: Support extraction of images (JPEG/PNG only)
• Fix #3009 (PRS500 won't connect)
• Refactor the device driver system to support devices from manufacturers that don't bother to assign unique ids to their devices. Preliminary drivers for Cy Book? Opus (windows/os x) and Cool-er (windows only)
• Implement searching the calibre catalog in the Stanza. Fixes #3014 (Support searching from stanza)