Calibre 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
New Features:
- A much requested feature. As of calibre 3, calibre now natively supports high resolution (Retina) screens.
- Calibre now has support for installing different icon themes (Preferences → Look & feel → Icon theme).
- Calibre can now convert all the book formats it supports to Microsoft Word (DOCX) files.
- There are a few minor backwards incompatibilities to be aware of in calibre 3.
- A completely re-written Content server with support for reading books in-browser on your phone/tablet. Also works in offline mode.
- Support for high resolution (Retina screens)
- A new splash screen to celebrate the release of calibre 3
- Minor tweaking of the main user interface to emphasize the core features
- Book details panel: Allow right click to search the internet for the current book
- Book details panel: Allow right clicking on an author name to search the internet for works by that author
- Book details panel: Clicking an author name now searches Goodreads by default instead of Wikipedia. Can be changed in Preferences->Interface->Look & feel->Book details
- Kobo driver: Add support for the Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2
Bug Fixes:
- Kobo driver: Fix for detection of some devices, with SD card not working on macOS
- Tag browser: Fix preservation of state when recounting and the visible categories have changed.
- CHM Input: Handle CHM files that have missing or empty root files.
- Fix Page flips options box in viewer preferences bot being laid out properly
- Fix initial down arrow in search box jumping two places
- Fix editing the authors via the book list not respecting the tweak to control author name splitting
- E-book viewer: Fix external links not working in the footnote popup panel
- Fix a regression that broke command line completion in bash
- PDF output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion to PDF for some files
- DOCX output: Fix lengths specified in percentage of page size not being converted correctly
- DOCX output: Fix some hyperlinks not working in word because the bookmark name is longer than forty characters
- DOCX output: Prevent images from being larger than the page size
- Comic input: Fix the number of colors control not allowing values less than 8
- Kobo driver: Fix main memory and Card A being swapped on some systems
- Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections option being accidentally case-insensitive
- Preferences->Toolbars: Show an error message when the user tries to remove either the Preferences or Location Manager buttons instead of just silently adding them back
To install Calibre in Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Any Linux Distribution open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following command in the Terminal: