Calibre 2.60.0 Has Released, Install on Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivatives
Install/Update Calibre 2.60.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana
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's new in Calibre 2.60.0
New Features:
- Edit metadata: In the drop down list for languages, show the five most recently used languages first.
- Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for missing navigation documents in EPUB 3 books
- Kobo driver: Improved configuration dialog for the Kobo Touch device driver
- Copy to Library: Do not abort the copy process if only some books fail to copy, instead report which books failed and copy the rest.
- News download: Make all relative links (those starting with /) absolute. Useful when reading on a device that supports web browsing.
- EPUB metadata: Add an option to disable adding of cover images to EPUB files that declare no cover image in their metadata (Preferences->Plugins->Customize the Set EPUB metadata plugin)
Bug Fixes:
- ToC Editor: Fix ToC detection in EPUB 3 files with only an NCX and no nav not working
- E-book viewer: In paged mode, when the window is toggled between full screen and window, repeatedly, preserve the position more accurately.
- E-book viewer: Fix incorrect page turning when multiple pages are displayed on screen for books that wrap all their content in a single 100% height tag.
- Fix a regression that broke scheduling a new news download in timezones west of GMT
- Edit Book: Fix undocked windows not resizable on OS X
- Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke rescaling of images to fit the output profile screen size during conversion.
- Fix for file dialogs not working on windows when non-ascii environment variables are present
- HTML Input: Fix error when converting HTML file with URL encoded filename.
Improved news sources:
- Handelsblatt
- New York Times Book Review
- Antyweb
How to Install/Update Calibre 2.60.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana :
Binary install
calibre has a binary install that includes private versions of all its dependencies. It runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Intel compatible machines. To install or upgrade, simply copy paste the following command into a terminal and press Enter:
sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"
If you get an error about an untrusted certificate, that means your computer does not have any root certificates installed and so cannot download the installer securely. Follow this page.
