Calibre is een opensource- en crossplatform-e-bookbeheerprogramma. Het kan onder andere alle relevante informatie en kaftafbeeldingen opzoeken en e-boeken converteren om ze geschikt te maken voor de diverse soorten e-readers. Verder kan het kranten, tijdschriften en nieuwsartikelen op basis van rss-feeds omzetten in e-bookformaat, en kunnen er boeken worden aangeschaft bij de bekende webwinkels. Elke vrijdag verschijnt er een nieuwe versie en het changelog voor versie 0.9.27 ziet er als volgt uit:
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Metadata download: Add two new sources for covers: Google Image Search and bigbooksearch.com.
To enable them go to Preferences->Metadata download and enable the 'Google Image' and 'Big Book Search' sources. Google Images is useful for finding larger covers as well as alternate versions of the cover. Big Book Search searches for alternate covers from amazon.com. It can occasionally find nicer covers than the direct Amazon source. Note that both these sources download multiple covers for a single book. Some of these covers can be wrong (i.e. they may be of a different book or not covers at all, so you should inspect the results and manually pick the best match). When bulk downloading, these sources are only used if the other sources find no covers.- Content server: Allow specifying a reestriction to use for the server when embedding it as a WSGI app. Closes tickets: 1167951
- Get Books: Add a plugin for the Koobe Polish book store
- calibredb add_format: Add an option to not replace existing formats. Also pep8 compliance.
- Allow restoring of the ORIGINAL_XXX format by right-clicking it in the book details panel
New news sources
- AZW3 Input: Do not fail to identify JPEG images with 8BIM headers created with Adobe Photoshop. Closes tickets: 1167985
- Amazon metadata download: Ignore Spanish edition entries when searching for a book on amazon.com
- TXT Input: When converting a txt file with a Byte Order Mark, remove the Byte Order Mark before further processing as it can cause the first line of the text to be mis-interpreted.
- Get Books: Fix searching for current book/title/author by right clicking the get books icon
- Get Books: Update nexto, gutenberg, and virtualo store plugins for website changes
- Amazon metadata download: When downloading from amazon.co.jp handle the 'Black curtain redirect' for adult titles. Closes tickets: 1165628
- When extracting zip files do not allow maliciously created zip files to overwrite other files on the system
- RTF Input: Handle RTF files with invalid border style specifications. Closes tickets: 1021270
Improved news sources
- Economia by Manish Bhattarai
- Universe Today by seird
- The Galaxy's Edge by Krittika Goyal
- The Escapist
- San Francisco Chronicle
- The Onion
- Fronda
- Tom's Hardware
- New Yorker
- Financial Times UK
- Business Week Magazine
- Victoria Times
- tvxs
- The Independent