

ConsĬrowded interface: There is a lot going on when you start using the app just on the main screen there are three search fields and 15 buttons, many of which come with drop-down menus.


On the back-end, each author gets his or her own folder and each e-book gets its own subfolder, which contains all versions of the given book along with its metadata. Unfortunately, there is no way to annotate, highlight, or augment the book's contents short of editing the book itself.Į-book organizer: Similar to iTunes, the app is much more than an e-book reader: it acts also as your e-book library, providing a central place where you can organize and sort your collection and allowing you to edit the book's metadata and even pull information automatically from places like Google and Amazon. It took us four seconds to convert a 40-page e-book from PDF to ePub.Į-book reader: The software comes with a basic e-book reader that supports fullscreen mode for distraction-free reading and that lets you choose your preferred method of pagination and gives you the ability to bookmark pages. ProsĮ-book converter: With Calibre you can take an e-book in one file format and convert it to another that is supported by your e-book reading device and, if you're not happy with the result, you can tweak the conversion settings and even manually edit the book's contents and formatting. The only area where the software is lacking is its e-book reader it doesn't allow you to highlight or add notes to your books. OS X: Fix dynamically generated context menus, such as the sort by menu not working.įix a crash when running with assertions turned on in Qt.Įdit Book: Reports tool: Fix an error when right clicking on items in the Links view.An all-in-one solution for handling your e-books, Calibre does for electronic books just what iTunes does for music, allowing you to manage your digital book collection through an intuitive albeit overcrowded interface while offering excellent support for converting books to different formats and editing their metadata. PDF Output: Fix conversion failure when input document contains first page with no renderable content.Įditor: Fix incorrect handling of some regular expressions in the Search tool. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works on Linux, OSX and Windows.Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes, library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as e-book reader sync features.Į-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the viewer on systems where the temporary directory is a symlink (common on OSX).ĮPUB Input: Fix EPUB2 files that specify a cover image via a tag but not in the not getting a cover when converted to PDF Calibre is an e-book library management application.
