Calibre

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A powerful and easy to use e-book manager

Calibre is a complete e-library solution. It includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, e-book viewer and editor, and e-book reader sync features.


Calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to e-books in several formats. It also supports conversion to and from a dozen different e-book formats.

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  1. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.14.1-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - [2007765] Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow
          choosing which page to use as the cover
        - [2009304] Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in
          Book details
        - Comments editor: Add a shortcut for "Paste and match style" (Ctrl+Shift+v)
       * bug fixes
        - [2004639] macOS: ToC Editor: Fix mouse becoming unusable when trying to
          create a new entry
        - When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes, not just
          leading quotes
        - [2009268] Content server viewer: Fix searching only showing results from
          the current chapter onwards
        - [2009735] Check book: Fix some incorrect line numbers reported in a few
          CSS error messages
        - Fix regression in 6.14.0 that caused some generated resources to be
          excluded from the calibre source bundle
        - [2011586] Fix regression in 6.14.0 that broke using paths with single
          quotes in them for the calibre library
        - Fix ToC Editor on macOS in 6.14.0 not working inside the Edit book tool
          only
       * improved recipes
        - Strange Horizons
        - The Saturday Paper
        - New Scientist
        - The Mainichi
        - DR Nyheder
        - New York Magazine
        - Bloomberg
        - Deccan Herald
    
  2. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.14.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - [2007765] Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow
          choosing which page to use as the cover
        - [2009304] Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in
          Book details
        - Comments editor: Add a shortcut for "Paste and match style" (Ctrl+Shift+v)
       * bug fixes
        - [2004639] macOS: ToC Editor: Fix mouse becoming unusable when trying to
          create a new entry
        - When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes, not just
          leading quotes
        - [2009268] Content server viewer: Fix searching only showing results from
          the current chapter onwards
        - [2009735] Check book: Fix some incorrect line numbers reported in a few
          CSS error messages
       * improved recipes
        - Strange Horizons
        - The Saturday Paper
        - New Scientist
        - The Mainichi
        - DR Nyheder
        - New York Magazine
        - Bloomberg
        - Deccan Herald
    
  3. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.13.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - Content server: E-book viewer: Long tapping on an image now causes it to
          be displayed in an internal popup rather than a new window as some
          browsers block the creation of new windows
       * bug fixes
        - E-book viewer: Fix some adjacent highlights with nothing in between them
          not being displayed.
        - [2006726] Content server: Workaround for Safari regression causing
          bookmarks to disappear on reload
        - [2007039] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous
          release that caused the Read aloud controls to not reappear when Read
          aloud is canceled and restarted
        - [2006062] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous
          release that caused an error when using Read aloud on a chapter with no
          text, such as the cover page
        - E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused a spurious error on Windows
          when reading out selected text
        - [2007165] Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke sorting the device
          view by title if one of the books has an empty title
        - Edit book: Spell Check dialog: Fix second word not getting selected when
          after first word is fixed
        - [2004621] Improve hover highlight color in tree views
       * improved recipes
        - CNN
        - Bloomberg
       * new recipes
        - The Economist Espresso by unkn0wn
        - Science X by unkn0wn
        - Horizons by unkn0wn
        - Deccan Herald by unkn0wn
        - The Monthly by unkn0wn
    
  4. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.12.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb3

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - E-book viewer: Read aloud: On Windows switch to using the new Microsoft
          speech subsystem with access to more voices
          Note that this means that old voice, speed and audio devices setting will
          not be used so a reconfiguration might be needed.
        - [2003712] calibre:// URL scheme: allow specifying a Virtual library for
          show_book URLs
        - [2003227] Add by ISBN: Allow adding using identifiers other than ISBN as
          well
        - Update bundled Qt to 6.4 this means calibre on macOS is now only supported
          on Big Sur and newer
        - Spell check dialog: Allow up and down arrow keys to work regardless of
          focus
        - [2002257] Allow multiple Template tester dialogs
       * bug fixes
        - Windows MTP device driver: Ignore failure to enumerate objects inside
          non-root folders
          There are apparently a lot of devices out there that fail in this way.
          So rather than aborting the scan simply ignore the folder.
        - Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke dragging to
          select multiple books
        - [2004197] Content server viewer: Fix reload book not actually reloading
          until the browser is also refreshed
        - [2003916] E-book viewer: Fix occasional false warning about highlight
          being overwritten
        - [2003908] E-book viewer: Fix detection of selected highlights when all
          text is selected
        - [2003729] Fix an error when embedding metadata into a large number of books
        - [2004522] When updating metadata in EPUB 2 files and no language is
          specified, do not remove the  tag as this causes epubcheck to
          complain. Instead set the language to "und"
        - [2004083] Wireless device driver: Remove the timeout for initial connection
        - [2003652] Use an icon rather than a color to report errors in fields and
          the search box
        - Conversion dialog: Regex builder: Workaround bug in Qt that prevented
          searching for non breaking spaces in the wizard used to test search
          expressions
        - [2002864] Spell check dialog: move down after correcting word, not up
        - [2002534] Get books: Fix Mobileread store plugin not working
       * improved recipes
        - Jerusalem Post
        - LiveMint
        - The Seattle Times
        - India Today
        - Outlook Magazine
        - Live Mint
        - Irish Independent
        - Irish Times
       * new recipes
        - Boston Globe Print Edition by unkn0wn
        - Observer Reach Foundation by unkn0wn
    
  5. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.11.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - Edit book: Check book: Allow automatic fixing of various simple CSS errors
        - E-book viewer: When Read aloud is speaking, make the control bar
          translucent so that words under the bar are visible
        - Edit book: Switch to a new library (stylelint) for find problems in CSS as
          the old library was no longer maintained.
        - Edit book: File browser: Allow using keyboard shortcuts to re-order the
          spine
        - [1982532] calibredb list: Allow specifying multiple fields for --sort-by
        - [2000037] Check library: Allow opening the book folder easily
       * bug fixes
        - Fix windows not being moved onto the current monitor when they were
          previously visible on a removed monitor that was to the left of the
          current monitor
        - [1999995] Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke
          drag and drop of multiple books
        - [2000877] Fix detection of Tolino Vision 6 on macOS/Linux
        - [2001880] Content server: Fix auto full screen not working when continuing
          to read books with user account enabled
        - Edit book: Set semantics: Fix error when setting the "Notes" semantic
        - [1999956] HTMLZ output: Fix images referred to in CSS stylesheets not
          being converted
        - [2000881] Book details panel: Fix HTML comment tags in the comments
          breaking display of book details
        - Content server home page: When showing recently read books from across
          devices hide the entries for which loading the cover fails
        - Windows Text-to-speech: Dont fail to configure if one of the voices has no
          defined language
        - Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke using a file for the --extra-css
          option of ebook-convert
        - Content server FTS: Fix page header bar not visible
        - Content server: Fix identifiers from third party metadata download plugins
          not becoming clickable links on the book details page
        - Edit book: Warn when saving will overwrite a read-only file
        - Fix restoring geometry of maximized/fullscreen dialogs forcing them visible
        - [1999936] Fix a regression in the previous release that caused spurious
          error message when doing some out of band searches
        - Fix a regression in the previous release that broke choosing new programs
          for the Open with function
       * improved recipes
        - PC World
        - HNA
        - Caravan Magazine
        - Harvard Business Review
        - Various Israeli news sources
       * new recipes
        - NHK News - by Richard A. Steps
        - Globes in English by barakplasma
    
  6. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.10.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - [major] Content server: Add support for searching the full text of books.
          Simply click the FTS link on the search page to start a full text search.
        - [1998557] Content server: When using user accounts, the homepage now shows
          recently read books from any device not just the current device
        - [1999685] Kobo driver: Bump the max supported firmware version
        - [1998780] Conversion: New Output profile for the Kindle Scribe
        - [1998705] Check library: Allow ignoring folder names as well as files names
       * bug fixes
        - [1999349] Edit book: Fix various formatting operations not inserting the
          tags in the correct place in the presence of non-BMP characters
        - Edit book: Use  instead of  for strikethrough
        - [1998899] Edit book: Fix export saved search to search panel not
          preserving the wrap checkbox state
        - [1998767] Content server: Redirect the index page to always have trailing
          slash when using URL prefixes
        - Book list: Workaround for change in Qt 6 behavior where clicking on an
          already selected row does not deselect other rows
        - [1998165] Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 6 causing Open With to not
          extract icons from EXE files
       * improved recipes
        - Indian Express
        - Financial Times
        - TIME Magazine
        - Hindu Business Line Print Edition
        - Arts and Letters Daily
        - Frontline
        - Sportstar
        - New Yorker
       * new recipes
        - Fokus by Henrik Holm
        - Press Information Bureau by unkn0wn
        - Himal Southasian by unkn0wn
        - Indian Express Print Edition by unkn0wn
    
  7. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.9.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb2

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - E-book viewer: When exporting highlights as plain text include titles from
          chapters at all levels not just the first level
        - Edit book: Reports: Show the number of words per file in the Files section
          of the report
        - Windows builds: sign DLLs in addition to EXEs to make Microsoft's new
          "Smart App Control" tool happy
        - Sending by email: When adding comments also add series
        - [1990730] Nook driver: Put files in NOOK/Books instead of NOOK/My Files on
          recent nook devices so they are all listed in one place in the NOOK UI
        - calibredb list: Allow using a template as one of the returned fields
        - Tag browser: Add context menu action to turn on/off sub-categorization for
          a category
       * bug fixes
        - [1996802] Merging books: Fix title sort not being updated when the title is
          updated
        - Content server viewer: Fix incorrect sorting of highlights in the same
          paragraph
        - Content server viewer: When exporting highlights as text include chapter
          titles
        - Improve rendering of the separator handle dots introduced in the previous
          release
        - Edit book: Fix regression in previous release causing applying any
          container update marking all open image editors as modified
        - Fix a regression in the previous release that caused copying book details
          to clipboard to use unix line endings on windows
       * improved recipes
        - Bloomberg
        - The Globe and Mail
        - Spectator Magazine
        - The New York Times
        - The Hindu
        - MIT Technology Review
    
  8. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.8.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1kinetic1

    Changes:
       * Rebuild for kinetic
    
  9. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.7.1+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - Template language: A new "Python template mode" which allows using
          arbitrary Python code in templates
        - [1992273] Tag browser: Allow removing format from selected books by right
          clicking on the format in the Tag browser
        - [1991597] E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when creating a highlight
          that will overwrite existing highlights
        - Book list: Allow changing column widths via a dedicated dialog by right
          clicking on column headers
       * bug fixes
        - [1992278] E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke adding of new lookup
          sources
        - [1991504] E-book viewer: Fix copy to clipboard not ignoring text from
          elements that are marked as non user selectable
        - [1992244] Content server: When adding books, run all file type plugins
          before reading metadata
        - Edit book: Preview panel: In dark mode when all of the
          background/foreground/link colors are set to "No change" do not render the
          book using dark colors
        - Version 6.7.1 fixes a regression in the previous release that broke the
          delete specific format from book function
       * improved recipes
        - The Athletic
        - der Standard
        - The Economic Times India Print Edition
        - Indian Express
        - India Today Magazine
        - Caravan Magazine
    
  10. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.7.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
       * New upstream release.
       * new features
        - Template language: A new "Python template mode" which allows using
          arbitrary Python code in templates
        - [1992273] Tag browser: Allow removing format from selected books by right
          clicking on the format in the Tag browser
        - [1991597] E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when creating a highlight
          that will overwrite existing highlights
        - Book list: Allow changing column widths via a dedicated dialog by right
          clicking on column headers
       * bug fixes
        - [1992278] E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke adding of new lookup
          sources
        - [1991504] E-book viewer: Fix copy to clipboard not ignoring text from
          elements that are marked as non user selectable
        - [1992244] Content server: When adding books, run all file type plugins
          before reading metadata
        - Edit book: Preview panel: In dark mode when all of the
          background/foreground/link colors are set to "No change" do not render the
          book using dark colors
       * improved recipes
        - The Athletic
        - der Standard
        - The Economic Times India Print Edition
        - Indian Express
        - India Today Magazine
        - Caravan Magazine
    
  11. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.6.1+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
    * New upstream release.
    * new features
    – Book details: allow displaying multi-valued categories such as tags on separate lines via Preferences->Look & feel->Book details
    – [1989813] Tag browser: When searching the Tag browser allow also filtering the book list to show only books that match one of the categories currently shown in the Tag browser.
    To use enable the two Preferences: “Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser->Hide empty categories” and “Find shows all items that match”.
    Then, when searching the Tag browser, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F to restrict the displayed books.
    – [1990507] Edit book: When right clicking on HTML files in EPUB 3 books, allow marking them as the Table of Contents (NAV document)
    * bug fixes
    – [1990185] EPUB Output: Fix converting a document with obfuscated fonts to EPUB 3 not working
    – [1990660] Edit book: Fix an error when processing books that contain comments inside unknown CSS @ rules
    – [1989722] Content server: Fix jumping to locations such as bookmarks not working on iPhone/iPad running iOS >= 15
    – [1990766] Font subsetting: Fix :first-line and :first-letter pseudo classes not being handled correctly
    – Workaround for Amazon’s email delivery service not reading metadata from inside ebook files
    – Edit book: File list: Fix pressing Tab key while renaming a file not starting the rename of the next file
    – Version 6.6.1 fixes a regression that caused the Edit metadata window to not remember its last used size.
    Note that you will have to resize it once after updating to 6.6.1, after which the size will be remembered.
    * improved recipes
    – SCMP
    – Spectator Magazine
    – Spiegel Online International
    – Engadget

  12. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.5.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
    * New upstream release.
    * New features
    – Kobo driver: support the new Kobo Clara 2e
    – [1989631] When running calibre with the –with-library command line flag and calibre is already running, switch to the specified library in calibre
    – [1988443] E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when deleting a custom highlight style
    – [1988609] Do not show the virtual libraries tab bar when no virtual libraries are present
    – Tag mapper: When specifying the replacement tag allow completion from the tags in the currently open library
    – Template language: New functions strcasecmp() and to_hex()
    * Bug fixes
    – [1989177] Comments editor: Workaround for Qt inserting invalid font-weight when converting a paragraph to a heading
    – [1988590] E-book viewer: When displaying highlights don’t group highlights from different chapters when the chapter titles are identical
    – Tag browser: Fix error if a User category contains a reference to a deleted custom column
    – [1989282] When sending books by email to the Kindle and PocketBook email delivery services use random subject and filenames consisting of simple English letters to try to workaround various bugs in their email processing code
    * Improved recipes
    – The Wall Street Journal
    – Open Magazine
    – The Baffler
    – Dark Reading
    – New York Times
    – NYTimes Cooking
    – NYTimes Sports Beat
    – Outlook Magazine
    – Foreign Affairs

  13. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.4.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb3

    Changes:
    * New upstream release.
    * new features
    – [1987011] Conversion pipeline: Add support for !important when flattening CSS rules
    – [1986786] Content server: Use the chapter title as the base bookmark name when creating new bookmarks
    – Allow changing the search order when clicking on items in the Tag browser (Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser->Hierarchy and searching)
    – [1986500] Check library: Make vacuuming the full text database optional as it is very slow and memory intensive
    – [1987235] Tag browser: Move the preferences for controlling the order and display of categories in the Tag browser from Preferences->Tweaks to Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser
    – [1984121] User category editor: Hide items not visible in the Tag browser
    – Allow adding a button to show the Manage categories window to the toolbars via Preferences->Toolbars & menus
    – Google metadata download: When excluding results from a web search because they don’t match the specified title/author ignore diacritics, accents, etc.
    * bug fixes
    – [1986963] E-book viewer: Lookup: Google dictionary: Add some padding at the left and right margins
    – [1985855] E-book viewer: Lookup word in Google dictionary: Fix meanings of some words not being shown in the user’s preferred language
    – [1987390] Fix calibredb backup_metadata –all operating only on dirty books not all books
    – [1987557] Do not VACUUM FTS db when exporting library as it can be very slow
    – Windows: Nicer error message when attempting to run viewer/editor on machine without MediaPack installed
    – Edit book: Reports: Fix rendering of images in the images report table
    – [1986412] Content server: Fix formatting of dates for custom columns using ISO format
    * improved recipes
    – Live Law and Live Mint
    – Financial Times and MIT Technology Review
    – Business Standard and Indian Express
    – Nautilus
    – High Country News
    – Outlook Business Magazine
    * new recipes
    – Brhat by Vishwas Vasuki
    – Cachys Blog by Volker Heggemann
    – Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by bugmen00t

  14. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 6.3.0+dfsg-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
    * New upstream release.
    * new features
    – E-book viewer: Allow searching for nearby words using a new “Nearby words”
    search mode
    – calibredb: New fts_search and fts_index commands to perform full text searching from the command line
    – [1985021] Image viewing popup: Allow zooming using the standard shortcuts of Ctrl+plus/minus
    * bug fixes
    – Fix a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke remembering the previous sort order for a column
    – [1983484] Fix a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke processing of very high resolution images
    – [1983230] Full text search: Fix error when using restrict searched books and more than 900 books are present in the searched list
    – E-book viewer: Fix parsing of CSS styles with @supports rules not working
    – E-book viewer: Speed up initial render of books with lots of CSS in

  15. Avatar photo Updates says:

    New version available -> calibre 5.11.0-1~xtradeb1

    Changes:
    * New upstream release.
    – New features
    – [1912958] Edit book: Add a tool to split the tag at the current cursor position, creating a new tag with the same style and class attributes.
    To add the tool go to the Toolbars section in the editor preferences
    – [1911107] E-book viewer: Show the URL when hovering over external links
    – E-book viewer: Redesign the reference mode to also work on touch screens without a mouse. Now in reference mode paragraph numbers are displayed for all paragraphs
    – Edit book: Allow Ctrl-clicking on class names to jump to the first style rule that matches the tag and class
    – Content server: When browsing highlights for a book allow selecting multiple highlights to delete or export quickly
    – [1912954] Allow creating keyboard shortcuts to copy show and view URLs for selected books to clipboard
    – calibredb: Add a timeout option to control the timeout when connecting to the calibre server
    – Bug fixes
    – [1913854] Content server: Fix dragging selection handles not working in Safari
    – [1915303] E-book viewer: Fix links with a href of “#” not working
    – E-book viewer: Hide the controls when clicking the back or forward buttons
    – [1914921] E-book viewer: When jumping to a highlight using the highlights panel, the back button should return to position before jump
    – [1914157] E-book viewer: Fix incorrect tooltip when hovering over a section title in the search results list
    – HTMLZ Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke creating HTMLZ documents when using the option to place CSS inline
    – Improved recipes
    – Endgadget

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