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Reviewer: Dave Foy Version: Calibre 0.8.3 Date: May 31, 2011 Rating: |
This software is now fundemental to how I manage my Kindle. I've only been using it for a couple of days (only had my Kindle that long) but it has handled everything I've thrown at it, in terms of book formats, and converted to mobi. The Newspapers download is really good for storing and perusing at your leisure. An excellent piece of s/w - just made a donation - hope you keep up the development, although I can't see how you can improve on it :) Dave (happy bunny) |
| Version | Date Released | Status | Release Notes |
| 0.8.53 | May 28, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books · Support for updating metadata in FB2 files · Set a different background color when choosing formats to not delete as opposed to choosing format to delete. · E-book viewer: Add an option to prevent the up and down arrow keys from scrolling past page breaks · Get Books: Remove ebookshoppe.com at the website's request |
| 0.8.52 | May 23, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · EPUB Input: When setting the cover for a book that identifies its cover image, but not the html wrapper around the cover, try to detect and remove that wrapper automatically. · When deleting books of a specific format, show the number of books with each format available · Linux install: No longer create MAN pages as all utilities have more comprehensive command line --help anyway · Add a tweak Preferences->Tweaks to control the default choice of format for the Tweak Book feature · Conversion: Allow setting negative page margins. A negative page margin means that calibre will not specify any page margin in the output document (for formats that support this) |
| 0.8.51 | May 11, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · When switching libraries preserve the position and selected books if you switch back to a previously opened library. · Conversion pipeline: Filter out the useless font-face rules inserted by Microsoft Word for every font on the system · Driver for Motorola XT875 and Pandigital SuperNova · Add a color swatch the the dialog for creating column coloring rules, to ease selection of colors · EPUB Output: Consolidate internal CSS generated by calibre into external stylesheets for ease of editing the EPUB · List EPUB and MOBI at the top of the dropdown list fo formats to convert to, as they are the most common choices |
| 0.8.50 | May 7, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6 will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded. · AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware. · Conversion: Allow easy re-ordering of the search and replace expressions in the conversion dialog. Also apply the expressions in the same order that they were entered when doing the conversion. · Automatically add the Tag 'Sample Book' when an Amazon sample is added to calibre · FB2 Input: Better handling of inline images. |
| 0.8.49 | Apr 27, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files: calibre can now generate Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files. To turn on this feature, go to Preferences->Tweaks and click Plugin Tweaks. In the box add: test_mobi_output_type = 'both' calibre will now produce MOBI files that have both the old MOBI format and the new KF8 format in them. To learn more about KF8, see: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511 [External link] Note that calibre support for KF8 is still experimental and there will likely be bugs. · Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed and robustness. · Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog · Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light |
| 0.8.48 | Apr 20, 2012 | New Release | Version 0.8.48 fixed books sent to SD card sometimes resulting problems when deleted. |
| 0.8.47 | Apr 13, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · Conversion pipeline: Add support for all the named entities in the HTML 5 spec. · Support for viewing and converting the Haodoo PDB ebook format · Device driver for Laser EB720 Bug Fixes: · Fix regression in automatic adding in 0.8.46 that broke automatic adding if adding of duplicates is enabled and auto convert is also enabled · Fix "Tags" field in advanced search does not obey regex setting · EPUB Input: Automatically extract cover image from simple HTML title page that consists of only a single tag, instead of rendering the page · Prevent errors when both author and author_sort are used in a template for reading metadata from filenames for files on a device · Amazon metadata download: Handle books whose titles start with a bracket. · Get Books: Fix downloading of purchased books from Baen |
| 0.8.46 | Apr 10, 2012 | New Release | Version 0.8.46 adds new features auto adding, E-book viewer, and Content server. |
| 0.8.45 | Apr 2, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries · calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books. · Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001 · KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples. · When a new plugin is added to calibre for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation) · Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog |
| 0.8.44 | Mar 26, 2012 | New Release | New Features: · E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode, with no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer. · Copy to Library: If books were auto merged by the copy to library process, popup a message telling the user about it, as otherwise some people forget they have turned on auto merge and accuse calibre of losing their books. · Unix driver for Ectaco JetBook color · Add a link to the 'Adding Books Preferences' in the drop down menu of the Add Books button for easier access and more prominence · Smarten punctuation: Add a few more cases for detecting opening and closing quotes Bug Fixes: · Get Books: Updates to various store plugins to deal with website changes: Amazon Europe, Waterstones, Foyles, B&N, Kobo, Woblink and Empik · Catalog generation: Do not error out when generating csv/xml catalogs if the catalog title contains filename invalid characters. |