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calibre v0.9.35 Updated

Checker on 14 Jun 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:
  • News download: Add a framework for scraping javascript heavy sites using a full WebKit browser. Used by the new recipe for time.com.
  • DOCX Input: Add a markup analyzer that identifies and removes redundant markup generated by Word. This can result in much cleaner HTML and reductions in markup size of up to 50%.
  • DOCX Input: Add support for theme fonts.
  • calibredb list: Add an option to limit the number of results.
  • Get Books: Allow stopping an in progress search. While doing a search, the Search button becomes a Stop button, and clicking on it stops the current search.
  • When viewing the list of jobs in calibre, display the time at which the job was started.
  • Conversion settings: When selecting the input/output profiles, show the profile screen size along with its description.
Bug fixes:
  • Get Books: Fix searching using the title/author being case-sensitive and therefore sometimes not returning results if uppercase characters were used in the query.
  • EPUB/AZW3 Output: When splitting HTML on page breaks, preserve tag structure in the split files. This fixes splitting losing some styling information for HTML files that define page breaks on deeply nested tags.
  • DOCX Input: Fix some manual page breaks being ignored.
  • DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs not being rendered.
  • DOCX Input: Fix some text being underlined incorrectly. The 'none' underline style was being translated incorrectly.
  • E-book viewer: When viewing EPUB files, ignore any encoding declarations in the HTML and assume that the HTML is encoded in UTF-8, unless decoding with UTF-8 fails. This is what the EPUB specification specifies.
  • AZW3 Output: Fix a typo that could prevent conversion of some files.
  • calibredb list: When outputting data in columns, handle multibyte and east asian characters correctly.
  • Get Books: Fix unable to change case of words in the title/author/keywords boxes because of completion.
  • Fix unable to clear custom date columns using the bulk metadata edit dialog.
  • MOBI Output: Fix regression that breaks conversion of some documents.
New news sources:
  • Neu Osnabrucker Zeitung
Improved news sources:
  • La Nacion
  • Frontline
  • New York Time Sports Beat
  • Time
  • Times of India
  • Las Vegas Review Journal
  • Folha de Sao Paolo
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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