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FYI, always scroll to the bottom of the page to download files on OlderGeeks.com. We don't believe in fake/misleading download buttons and tricks. The link is always in the same place. Calibre for Windows v4.8.0 Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management E-book conversion Syncing to e-book reader devices Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form Comprehensive e-book viewer Content server for online access to your book collection E-book editor for the major e-book formats Calibre started life on 31 October, 2006, soon after the release of the SONY PRS-500, the first e-ink based reader to be sold commercially in the US. At the time, I was a graduate student, with a lot of time on my hands. The PRS-500 did not work at all with Linux, my operating system of choice, so I decided to reverse engineer the USB protocol that it used, to get it working on Linux. This was accomplished with the help of the fine folks over at mobileread.com and calibre was born, albeit named libprs500. At the time there were no satisfactory tools to convert content into the LRF format, used by the SONY reader, so I decided to implement a converter to convert the most popular e-book formats to LRF. This converter proved to be wildly popular and far better than the (mostly non-existent) offerings from SONY. It was picked up and used by various publishing houses and content digitizers to produce the first generation of books in the LRF format. As my e-book collection grew, I realized that managing it was quickly becoming unwieldy, so I decided to write a graphical interface to libprs500 to make it easier. This became calibre, in its present form, as a comprehensive e-book management tool. libprs500 was renamed to calibre in mid-2008. The name calibre was chosen by my wife, Krittika. The libre in calibre stands for freedom, indicating that calibre is a free and open source product, modifiable by all. Nonetheless, calibre should be pronounced as cali-ber, not ca-libre. Today calibre is a vibrant open-source community with half a dozen developers and many, many testers and bug reporters. It is used in over 200 countries and has been translated into a dozen different languages by volunteers. calibre has become a comprehensive tool for the management of digital texts, allowing you to do whatever you could possibly imagine with your e-book library. Reading is very important to me and one of my goals has always been to prevent either the fragmentation or the monopolization of the e-book market by entities that care solely for short-term goals. As the calibre community continues to grow, driven by book lovers, for book lovers, hopefully it will always present an alternative for people that love to read e-books and want to be in control of their own digital libraries. Release: 4.8 [03 Jan, 2020] New features Viewer in flow mode: Add auto-scrolling which can be triggered from the viewer controls and also make smooth scrolling by pressing down the arrow keys configurable Viewer: Allow showing data in left and right margins in addition to headers/footers. Closes tickets: 1855121 Viewer: Allow right clicking in the lookup panel to zoom in/out. Closes tickets: 1857989 Viewer: Allow setting colors for the margins when creating new color schemes in Preferences->Colors Viewer: Ctrl+, to show preferences Bug fixes PDF Output: Fix extracting text from generated PDFs not working if more than 100 characters per font are used in the text. Closes tickets: 1857886 macOS: Fix viewer controls not using system UI font Viewer: Fix images not being rendered at certain sizes when they are the only content on the page in paged mode with single page per screen. Closes tickets: 1857803 Viewer: Fix svg links not working. Closes tickets: 1857812 Viewer: Fix a bug that could allow maliciously crafted EPUB files to read data from files on the computer. Thanks to dozernz for discovering this attack vector. Closes tickets: 1857800 macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused link color to be light blue even when not using dark color themes RTF Output: Fix a regression that slowed down conversion of images. Closes tickets: 1857732 Server viewer: Make the Exit full screen action available in viewer controls. Closes tickets: 1857677 Viewer: Fix error when trying to change more than a single keyboard shortcut at once Closes tickets: 1858117 Fix typo causing a harmless error message when downloading covers and only a single cover is found Improved news sources London Review of Books       Click here to visit the author's website. Continue below to download this file. |
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| 5,353 | 10,812 | Kovid Goyal <img src="https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/gallery/thumbs/Calibre1_th.png"border="0"> | Jan 03, 2020 - 12:50 | 4.8.0 | 93.49MB | EXE |  , out of 18 Votes. |
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