Calibre 2.14.0 is released, A graphical ebook library management software compatible with many devices and platforms
Calibre 2.14.0 is released, A graphical ebook library management software compatible with many devices and platforms
Calibre is an open source e-book library management application designed for the 21th century, for the digital world that were are living in right now. It lets users to manipulate digital books in any way possible. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create electronic books based on recipes of your very own ideas.
Features at a glance
The software can download news from a sleuth of various sources, and comes with a content server for online access. Syncing ebooks to a supported mobile reader device is also possible with Calibre. E-book library management is the the main component of the application, displayed every time you open the application. From here, you can convert and organize e-books in a simple manner. It imports and exports many ebook formats, including ePub, MOBI, AZW, DOC, XML, etc. Just like any other software that can be extended via plugins, Calibre features an internal collection of add-ons, which provide support for editing metadata of ebooks, or add support for various ebook readers.
What New in version 2.14.0
- New Features:
- Metadata review dialog: Automatically insert series number when selecting a series from the completion dropdown. Also if the user does not specify a series number, use 1 as the default, instead of not setting the series.
- Closes tickets: 1404692
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix regression that broke error reporting for save to disk for books that contain no formats.
- Closes tickets: 1405674
- Metadata download: Fix metadata download not working for titles that contain a apostrophes in languages other than English.
- Closes tickets: 1403677
- Fix deleting a book from both the library and the device causing the next selected book to be incorrect, when the library is sorted by the On Device column.
- Closes tickets: 1404629
- FB2 Output: Fix generation of FB2 sections based on a multi-level Table of Contents in the input document.
- Closes tickets: 1393514
- Tolino Shine driver: Fix option to swap main memory and SD card not working on OS X.
- Closes tickets: 1404793
- FB2 Input: Workaround for broken FB2 files produced by convertonlinefree.com.
- Closes tickets: 1404701
- OS X: Workaround for OS X installs that have incorrect permissions set on their home directories. calibre will now no longer refuse to start on such machines.
- MOBI Input: Dont crash on corrupted JPG images.
- Closes tickets: 1404590
- Fix column icons not displaying for custom comments type columns
- Closes tickets: 1404234
- Metadata review dialog: Show a confirmation for the 'Reject all remaining' button.
- Closes tickets: 1404386
- New news sources:
- OSEL.cz by spacekpe
- Courier Mail by Krittika Goyal
- Improved news sources:
- Nikkei News
