As you may already know, Calibre is an open-source book management software, with many interesting features including e-book conversion, e-book viewer, library to ebook reader synchronization and support for the most popular eBook formats, including: epub, cbz, mobi, fb2. Being multi-platform, the app works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
The latest version available is Calibre 2.49, which comes with the below changes.
New Features:
- E-book viewer: Add an option to allow only a single book to be viewed at a time. Trying to view a second book will cause it to replace the currently viewed book.
- Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware 3.19.5761
- Linux build: Update bundled version of Qt to 5.5.1
Bug Fixes:
- Get Books: Update plugins for various Polish language book stores to handle changes to the website
- Amazon metadata download: Handle a change in the amazon website that prevented review metadata from being downloaded
- Better algorithm for guessing the ‘external’ network interface that is displayed to the user
- Tag Mapper: Do not allow the user to create rules with invalid regular expressions
- E-book viewer: Disallow hyphenation in documents that use mathematical typesetting as the hyphenation breaks that typesetting
- E-book viewer: Fix some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.
- Download calibre plugins securely using HTTPS
- MOBI Output: Try to autofix corrupted PNG images in the input document.
- Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.
- E-book viewer: Fix failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.
Installation instructions:
Up to date packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf systems is easy.
All you need to do is add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the calibre package:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install calibre
Optional, to remove calibre, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove calibre