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 8.16.0 changelog:
New features
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
Bug fixes
- Use a named local timezone for better display of historical dates in the local timezone
- PDF Input: Fix a regression in the new PDF input engine that caused HTML markup to not be always escaped
- Get books: Update amazon.it store plugin
- Fix addition of format specific options when using calibredb catalog with command line flags
- calibredb catalog: Fix generation of language field in BiBTeX catalogs
- Fix incorrect series index when downloading metadata from amazon.co.jp
- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the case change menu to not be present in the comments editor.
Calibre 8.16.1 fixes:
- Fix a bug that prevented the Ask AI what to read next feature from working
Calibre 8.16.2 fixes:
- Fix a crash in 8.16.0 that caused using the "Close" button in Ask AI to crash Calibre on some systems
Download: Calibre 8.16.2 | Portable | ~200.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre for MacOS | 305.0 MB
Download: Calibre for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot
