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calibre v0.9.31 Updated

Checker on 17 May 2013

Calibre is an e-book library management application with a variety of useful functions including device-specific e-book conversion, news download and conversion, viewer, and content server for online access to your collection.

The program syncs automatically with many different physical devices including Kindle, Nook, Sony PRS, BeBook, Android, iOS and many more (full list). It supports a variety of e-book formats, including azw, azw1, cbr, cbz, chm, epub, fb2, html, imp, lit, lrf, lrx, mobi, odt, oebzip, opf, pdb, pdf, pml, pmlz, prc, rar, rb, rtf, snb, tpz, txt and zip.

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System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the "portable installer" and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch calibre-portable.exe.
What's new? New Features:
  • Book list: Highlight the current cell in the book list, particularly convenient for usage with the keyboard.
  • Allow creation of advanced rules for column icons.
  • Driver for the limited edition SONY PRS-T2N
  • MOBI Input: Add support for MOBI/KF8 files generated with the to be released kindlegen 2.9.
Bug fixes:
  • ToC Editor: Fix incorrect playOrders in the generated toc.ncx when editing the toc in an epub file. This apparently affects FBReader.
  • PDF Input: Fix crashes on some malformed files, by updating the PDF library calibre uses (poppler 0.22.4).
  • PDF Output: Ignore invalid links instead of erroring out on them.
  • MOBI Output: Fix space errorneously being removed when the input document contains a tag with leading space and sub-tags.
  • Search and replace wizard: Fix generated html being slightly different from the actual html in the conversion pipeline for some input formats (mainly HTML, CHM, LIT).
  • Nook Color/Touch driver: Scan for ebooks in the entire main memory, not just under My Files.
New news sources:
  • nrc-next
Improved news sources:
  • Weblogs SL
  • .net magazine
Latest comments
webfork on 2011-11-13 21:48

Softpedia gave it 5/5 http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/calibre-Review-231233.shtml and other reviews have also been very good.

webfork on 2013-02-09 19:23

Ton of features and capabilities. It's nice to see a tool that just doesn't have any comparison to commercial alternatives in terms of overall functionality and flexibility. If you're an active user of almost any eReader, it seems at some point you'll at some point need this program to share, convert, manage, or sync multiple devices.

Hugh0202 on 2013-05-07 20:25

Calibre may be good, but it wants to copy my entire ebook library to another folder/tree! There doesn't seem to be any way to stop this. I also don't see a way for it to add recent acquisitions.

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ReadThemAll v1.2.11

lautrepay on 9 Jul 2012
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  • Suggested by maxerist

ReadThemAll is a e-book reader primarily designed to be used in a hand-free mode. Although it can be used as a general purpose reader, its main benefits come from its innovative auto-scrolling: a way of reading books so you don't have to manually list pages.

The program is a successor of the identically named software for PalmOS.

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System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RTA.exe.
Latest comments
freakazoid on 2010-05-17 20:49

Doesn't work with PDFs... which is kind of a bummer! :(

webfork on 2010-05-19 08:31

Oustanding idea but how about a mode that scrolls text like a movie scrolls text? Why doesn't it have that? The text-replacing line roll thing is just odd.

MRU Hater on 2010-06-07 12:35

For every file you open, it creates a hidden .rtainfo file in the same folder. And I thought Picasa was bad.

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