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Calibre 5.42.0

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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 5.42 new features:

  • E-book viewer: Ignore accents when doing a search

  • Book list searching: Ignore punctuation when searching. So that, for example, Gravitys will match Gravity's

  • Show the text used for marking books in the tooltip

Bug fixes

  • Edit book: Reduce memory consumption by the checkpoint system when doing operations that involve parsing all book files
  • Amazon metadata download: Fix titles starting with [ being ignored
  • Edit metadata dialog: Undo not working correctly in identifiers field
  • Fix viewing LRF files not working
  • PDF Output: Fix an error on some invalid CSS in the input document
  • Linux binary: Workaround for Qt WebEngine not working on systems with glibc > 2.33

New news sources

  • Caravan Magazine (Hindi) by Areet Mahadevan
  • LWN (Free) by yodha8
  • IEEE Spectrum Magazine by yodha8
  • Financial Times by Kovid Goyal
  • Cosmos Magazine by yodha8

Improved news sources

  • New Yorker
  • OMG! Ubuntu!
  • ACM Queue
  • CACM
  • Science News
  • Quanta Magazine
  • Outlook Magazine
  • Indian Express

Download: Calibre 5.42 | Portable | Windows 32-bit | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Calibre 5.42 for MacOS | 147.0 MB
Download: Calibre 5.42 for Linux
View: Calibre Home Page | Calibre Screenshot

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