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Calibre 3.40.1

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Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer.

It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Calibre's features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats, giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.

Calibre 3.40.1 new features:

  • TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation.

  • Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the book by right clicking on the existing Ids.

  • Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the 'Search the internet' feature via Preferences->Sharing over the net->Search the internet

  • Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library

  • Allow adding files to selected book records from the clipboard. To use copy a file from windows explorer, right click the Add books button and choose: Add files to selected books from clipboard

  • Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu option to search using the raw search expression.

  • Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next match

  • Windows: Add a button to Preferences->Sharing over the net to set calibre to run when the computer starts

Bug fixes:

  • Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to library and delete after when copying a duplicated book.

  • Edit book: Fix pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) not working

  • Content server: Fix {id} not working in the custom list template

  • EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not saving title and format information.

  • macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor blink time

  • FB2 Output: Fix comments from the input document not present in the output.

  • calibredb: Fix adding books with an OPF file to a remote server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file

  • TXT Input: Fix option to remove indents at the start of lines breaking conversion of markdown documents.

  • EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in exclusion rules.

  • EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix multiple books with the same title but different authors in a genre not being listed

  • Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page

  • Version 3.40.1 fixes a bug in 3.40 that could prevent calibre starting when using a custom date column

New news sources

  • Quanta Magazine by lui1

  • El Periodico Mediterraneo by benages

Improved news sources

  • Scientific American

  • Taipei Times

  • Harpers Magazine

  • General Knowledge Today

  • Granma

  • South China Morning Post

  • New York Times (Web)

  • China Daily

  • 1843

  • Pro Physik

  • Caravan Magazine=

  • Spektrum der Wissenchaft

Download: Calibre 3.40.1 for Windows | Portable | Windows 64-bit | ~60.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 3.40.1 for MacOS | 77.1 MB
Download: Calibre 3.40.1 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot

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