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Calibre 4.7.0

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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 4.7.0 new features:

  • macOS: Use transient scrollbars unless they are disabled in system preferences
  • Viewer toolbar: Add actions for next and previous section. They are not added to the toolbar by default, customize it to add them.
  • Viewer: Add an option to keep the toolbar visible in full screen mode (Viewer Preferences->Miscellaneous)
  • Viewer: Allow modifying the current selection using Ctrl+Shift+Arrow.
  • Book details: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Book details to show a heading for the comments in the book details panel
  • Edit book: Spell check: Ignore soft hyphens in words
  • Viewer: In multiple pages per screen mode, When paging back to a chapter we have just paged forward from return to the exact position we left from in terms of number of blank trailing pages displayed.
  • Viewer: Add a setting under Preferences->Colors to control when the viewer will override all book colors or not.

Bug fixes

  • Viewer: Fix flick scrolling in flow mode jumping to next chapter.

  • Windows: Possible fix for some windows appearing off screen on multi-monitor setups

  • macOS: Fix PDF Output not working when running ebook-convert via symlink on the command line.

  • PDF Output: Ignore upto 8 byte glyph data size mismatches when merging identical glyphs.

  • Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix words surrounded by narrow non-breaking spaces being incorrectly detected as mis-spelled

  • Get books: Update various Polish language stores

  • macOS: Fix drag and drop to re-arrange items in the viewer toolbar not working

  • PDF Output: When an inline image is placed alone inside a block tag, ensure that it is not split over two pages.

  • ToC editor: Fix generate from links not working correctly when links have no fragments

  • PDF Output: Dont dedup images that cannot be uncompressed

  • Advanced search dialog: Fix an error when closing dialog if on the second tab and no field is focused

Improved news sources:

  • Global Times
  • London Review of Books
  • The Telegraph (UK)
  • The Economist

Download: Calibre 4.7.0 for Windows | Portable | Windows 64-bit | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 4.7.0 for MacOS | 154.0 MB
Download: Calibre 4.7.0 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot

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