Calibre 6.27.0

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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 6.27 changelog:

New features

Kobo driver: Support updated firmware
Nook driver: Add support for Nook Glowlight Plus 2023
Data files manager: Allow drag and drop of files onto the list of files to add new files
Support 7z archives in addition to ZIP and RAR for automatic ebook extraction when adding to calibre
Linux/macOS: Fix detection of the Kindle Scribe with MTP firmware
E-book viewer: Allow clearing list of recently opened books from the open button's popup menu itself
E-book viewer: Add a link to show the currently viewed book in the calibre library (Go to->Metadata in the viewer controls to access it)

Bug fixes

Book information dialog: Fix a regression that caused incorrect color for titles in dark mode
E-book viewer: Fix searching does not jump to first match if all matches are before current position in book
EPUB Output: Fix duplicated title page entry in spine for books that define a title page that ends up getting split
Allow for-light/dark-theme icon overrides to work for plugin icons placed by the user in the override folder
PDF Output: Fix background image + text not rendering correctly if the same background image is used with different text multiple times
E-book viewer: Fix section titles in highlights panel being incorrectly expanded to full titles when the section has multiple highlights
Prevent Quickview window from opening in the background
Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when doing text based searches

New news sources