Yesterday, I upgraded my installation to the lastest version 7.0.

Let me have a look at the new features.

Category notes

You can store notes associated with an author, publisher, series, et cetera, in your calibre library. To do so right click (or Ctrl+click on macOS) on an author or tag name in the Tag browser or Book details panel and choose Edit notes. Once you have created the note, a little pencil icon will show next to the name in the book details panel. You can click the pencil to view the note.

You can browse and search through all notes in your library by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N or adding the Browse notes tool to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars & menus.

Audio EPUB books in the E-book viewer

calibre has gained support for so called “Audio EPUB” books. Typically, these are books that have a pre-recorded voice reading the text. Freely downloadable examples of such books are available at: Read Beyond books. When reading such a book, clicking the Read Aloud button in the viewer will automatically use the embedded audio in the book to read the text aloud, marking the currently read sentence and showing progress. Note that this may not work on Linux because of issues with patented codecs, but works on Windows and macOS.

Store extra data files associated with any book

A long requested feature in calibre, was the ability to store “data” files associated with a book and have calibre manage them automatically. This is finally available. Extra data files can be added to a book by selecting the book, right clicking the Add books button and choosing Add data files to selected book records. You can also manage the data files by right clicking the Edit metadata button and choosing Manage data files. The data files are simple files stored in the data sub-folder inside the book’s folder. A common use for such files is storing alternate covers or supplementary material associated with the book.

Calibre’s own private Recycle Bin

calibre now has its own private Recycle Bin instead of using the operating system one. This means that it is now possible undo the deletion of a book with a single click, restoring all its files and metadata automatically. Indeed when you delete a book calibre will show an unobtrusive popup offering to undo the deletion for a few seconds. You can also browse recently deleted books by right clicking the Remove books button and choosing Restore recently deleted.

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Let me have a look what’s new features of this E-Book management software.

New features for Calibre 5.9

• Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location
• Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights
• Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder
• Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns

New features for Calibre 5.8.1

• Happy holidays to all calibre users!
• E-book viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+F)
• Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).
• Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
• Content server viewer: Don’t enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
• E-book viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
• Template/formatter enhancements: Add a ‘for’ statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
• Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode

New features for 5.7.2

• E-book viewer: Add a “Read aloud” function that works via the operating system’s Text-to-speech engine.

  Click the “Read aloud” button in the viewer controls to start reading the book text aloud from the current page.

• A new busy spinner for waiting animations
• Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.

New features for 5.6

• Edit book: Show a non-modal popup for a few seconds to allow undoing file delete operations
• Device books view: Add an action to the context menu to easily jump to the matching book in the calibre library view
• Add ability to undo Generate cover in the Edit metadata screen, by long clicking the Generate cover button
• Edit book: Allow adding tags to the list of tags for the insert tag button
• calibredb add: New option –automerge to automatically merge duplicates
• Add an edit notes action to the context menu in the viewer highlights panel
• Content server viewer: Allow viewing images in a new window by right clicking them, matches the calibre builtin viewer behavior
• Book details window: Allow opening the edit metadata window using either the keyboard shortcut or the context menu
• Allow copying the current search as a calibre:// URL by right clicking the search box
• Book details panel: Add entries to copy calibre:// links for the current book to the context menu
• Edit book: Upgrade book: Ask whether to keep the NCX based Table of Contents

New features for 5.5

• Support the calibre:// URL scheme

  Clicking on calibre:// URLs can be used to have calibre perform various actions. For details, see: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html

• Viewer: Show calibre:// URL for current book in the Goto->Location panel
• Edit book: Add an action to the right click menu for tabs to close tabs to the right of the current tab.
• Add ability to copy tag, publisher and author in Book details panel by right-clicking
• Annotations browser: Add a context menu for common actions.
• Annotations browser: Show a dot for highlights with notes.
• Edit book: Saved searches panel: Allow copying the current saved search to the regular search panel by clicking the Export button.
• Windows: Fix command line arguments not working for the portable.exe launchers
• Viewer: back and forward buttons on the mouse now trigger the back and forward actions
• Option to mark all books with annotations/bookmarks
• Various minor improvements to how keyboard focus is handled in the Tag browser

Every time Calibre has a new release, there are a lot of new features added and bug fixes. I just tried to log it for reference.

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There is something new in Calibre 5.0.

• Highlighting Supporting in the calibre e-book viewer
• Python 3

The installation package is about 125MB. I prefer to 64bit software.

Download Calibre 64bit.

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New features for Calibre 4.16

• Viewer/Edit book fuzzy search: Ignore soft hyphens and zero-width joiner characters when searching for text.
• Tag browser: Allow adding/removing tags/authors/etc. to the currently selected book by right clicking on that tag and choosing “Apply to selected books”.
• Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware
• Manage categories dialog: When editing a value with multiple values selected, change them all
• Book list column header context menu: Add an entry to resize the column to fit its current contents.
• Show completions when editing tags/authors/series etc in the Tag browser and Manage tags dialog.
• Quickview: Double clicking an item now searches for it
• Comments editor: Add an action to the context menu to smarten punctuation.
• FB2 metadata: Add support for setting publisher and publish year

New features for Calibre 4.15

• Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes
• Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+b) for adding a bookmark

New features for Calibre 4.14

• Viewer: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior
• Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window.
• Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents
• Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the calibre library
• Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list

New features for Calibre 4.13

• Edit book: When searching in normal mode, have spaces in the search expression match multiple spaces and line breaks in the text.
• When running calibre-portable.exe popup a more useful error message if it is placed in a location with a too long path.
• Edit book: Allow skipping confirmation dialog when marking non-first file as cover page
• Add a shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+p] to switch to the previously opened library.

New features for Calibre 4.12

• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware with the series list on the device
• Automatically extract the source DOCX file from Kindle Create KPF files when adding them to calibre. If you prefer to preserve the KPF file you can disable the KPF Extract plugin in Preferences->Plugins
• Content server: Add a button to delete all locally cached books.
• Edit Book: Allow selecting the contents of a tag with Ctrl+Alt+t
• Viewer: Save current position after 3 seconds of last position change. Useful if the viewer crashes on resume from sleep.
• Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+w) to toggle the scrollbar.
• Viewer: Keyboard shortcuts to change number of columns (Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+])

New features for Calibre 4.11.2

• Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts
• Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them
• Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu
• Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size
• Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens.
• Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (Ctrl+n)

New features for Calibre 4.10

• Viewer: When searching have single and double quotes match their curly variants as well.

New features for Calibre 4.9.1

• Viewer: Much improved search functionality

  Now all matches are displayed when searching in a side bar with a few words of context. Also supports searching using regular expressions.

• Edit book: The Check book function has a new, improved CSS checker with support for CSS 3
• Edit book: Add an “Open with” action to the context menu of the files browser to easily open files with external programs.
• Viewer toolbar: Add button to easily change color schemes

New features for Calibre 4.8

• 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.
• Viewer: Allow right clicking in the lookup panel to zoom in/out.
• Viewer: Allow setting colors for the margins when creating new color schemes in Preferences->Colors
• Viewer: Ctrl+, to show preferences

New features for Calibre 4.7

• macOS: Use transient scrollbars unless they are disabled in system preferences
• Viewer toolbar: Add actions for next and previous section. They are not added to the toolbar by default, customize it to add them.
• Viewer: Add an option to keep the toolbar visible in full screen mode (Viewer Preferences->Miscellaneous)
• Viewer: Allow modifying the current selection using Ctrl+Shift+Arrow.
• Book details: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Book details to show a heading for the comments in the book details panel
• Edit book: Spell check: Ignore soft hyphens in words
• Viewer: In multiple pages per screen mode, When paging back to a chapter we have just paged forward from return to the exact position we left from in terms of number of blank trailing pages displayed.
• Viewer: Add a setting under Preferences->Colors to control when the viewer will override all book colors or not.

New features for Calibre 4.6

• Windows 10: Add support for dark mode.

  If you turn on dark mode under the Windows Settings->Personalisation->Colors and restart calibre it will use dark colors. Can also be enabled by setting the CALIBRE_USE_DARK_PALETTE environment variable.

• Polish books tool: Add a setting to add or remove soft hyphens from the book text
• Viewer: Re-enable the old reference mode from calibre 3.x
• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware

New features for Calibre 4.5

• Driver for the new PocketBook Inkpad X
• Driver for the new Bookeen Diva HD
• PDF Output: Add an option to shift text horizontally on odd/even pages.
• Image viewing popup dialog: Add a checkbox to fit image to window.
• Edit book: Create @font-face rules when importing multiple font files into book automatically, similar to how it is done when importing a single font file.

New features for Calibre 4.4

• Viewer: Allow customizing what actions appear on the toolbar (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Customize toolbar).
• Viewer: The –open-at command line argument now allows matching on ToC hrefs as well as titles
• Book details window: Show path to book in cover tooltip.
• Book details popup window: Add Open with actions to context menu when right clicking the cover image.
• Edit book: Check book: Mark empty id attributes in the OPF as errors.
• Viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to toggle the toolbar
• Bulk metadata download review dialog: When clicking cancel ask for confirmation if some books have already been reviewed

New features for Calibre 4.3

• Viewer: Halve the time taken to prepare large EPUB files for first open
• Viewer: Add an optional toolbar with common actions turn it on under Preferences->Miscellaneous
• Viewer: Change the default color scheme to “System” which matches the colors used by the rest of calibre/the operating system. Also means the colors change automatically when the system color theme changes.
• Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut ; to go to a book location or position
• Viewer: Add a control to easily reset the interface to defaults
• Viewer: Allow also using –open-at with book positions
• Viewer: Add command line option to force reloading of books

New features for Calibre 4.2

• macOS: Various improvements to dark mode support
• Viewer: Dont generate covers for books that dont have a cover. Note that because of this all previously opened books will again be prepared for first time reading.
• Viewer: Restore print to PDF functionality
• Viewer: Allow also jumping to book positions in Goto->Location
• Content server: When adding books and a duplicate is suspected provide more information about what books match the duplicate
• FB2 Output: Speed up conversion of images and handle external links
• Viewer: If the book has no ToC try to generate one from headings, if any.
• Viewer: Improve rendering of comics. No blank pages after large images or after every image in multi-page mode.
• Viewer: Make it easier to use the bookmarks panel with only keyboard.
• Viewer: Set the classes calibre-viewer-paginated and calibre-viewer-scrolling on the <body> tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed.
• Viewer: Use the same loading spinner as is used by the rest of calibre

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New features for Calibre 4.1

• Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences)
  Viewer: Allow showing the ‘position in book’, as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in calibre 3, in the header or footer of the viewer.
• Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode.
• Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them.
• Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer
  Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit
  Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates.
• Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes.
• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware

It is a kinds of rush for this new release. more bug fixes on it.

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Welcome back, calibre users. It has been two years since calibre 3.0. This time has been spent mostly in making the calibre Content server ever more capable as well as migrating calibre itself from Qt WebKit to Qt WebEngine, because the former is no longer maintained.

The Content server has gained the ability to Edit metadata, Add/remove books and even Convert books to and from all the formats calibre itself supports. It is now a full fledged interface to your calibre libraries.

The change to use Qt WebEngine has entailed a complete rewrite of various parts of calibre, including the E-book Viewer, PDF Output, Book details etc. Every attempt has been made to preserve features and functionality in a backwards compatible way, see below for a list of some known incompatibilities.

Wow, Calibre 4.0 is comming. I can not image how different it is from 3.x.

I can wait to see it. Now download it 115MB. Install it. Then launch it.

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• Book list: Allow changing the font used for any column to bold and/or italic by right clicking on the column header and choosing ‘Change font style’.

  Note that this setting is per-library so it has to be done once for the book list in every calibre library.

• fetch-ebook-metadata.exe: Allow specifying identifiers other than just ISBN
• Amazon metadata download: Add support for Amazon Australia (can be configured via Preferences->Metadata download->customize the amazon metadata source)
• Table of Contents Edit tool: When generating from XPath’s add a checkbox to control if duplicate entries at the same level are added or not
• Edit book: Allow disabling the popup to show changes after running the Fix HTML and Beautify all files tools.

New features v3.30

• ToC Editor: When generating ToCs using headings/XPath ignore duplicate entries at the same level that have the same text
• Windows: The default calibre library location is now not in My Documents but instead in the user home folder, to avoid issues with OneDrive auto-syncing calibre libraries
• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version
• Add a tweak (in Preferences->Tweaks) to allow skipping network check on news download
• Edit metadata dialog: Show a confirmation dialog on cancel if some changes have been made.

New features v3.29

• Add a option to draw a grid in the main book list (Preferences->Look & feel)
• Edit book: Allow removing the currently highlighted tag (while keeping its contents) by pressing Ctrl+>. You can also add a tool to do it via Preferences->Toolbars
• Content server: When defining a color scheme for the in browser viewer allow specifying the link color as well as the foreground and background.
• Edit book: Show a popup after a fix all html/beautify all files so the user can easily see what was changed, if needed.
• Kindle driver: Create cover thumbnails on the device when transferring KFX format books
• Edit Book: Recognize numbers in image names in the ‘Insert image’ dialog

New features v3.28

• Allow creating rules to transform author names when adding books to calibre. Accessible via Preferences->Adding books->Adding actions
• Add a similar author mapper tool to manipulate author names in the existing library. Accessible via Preferences->Toolbars
• Add a similar author mapper tool for metadata downloading, accessible via Preferences->Metadata download
• Comments Editor: Add options to change the case of the selected text to the right click menu
• Edit book: When sorting non text files in the File list recognize numbers in the file names

New features v3.27.1

• Content server: Allow conversion of books
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
• Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an “edit tags” button for tags like custom columns.
• Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to disable the new ‘drag and drop to merge books feature’
• E-book viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+B) to toggle the bookmarks panel.
• Edit book: Add a copy to clipboard button on the various report dialogs
• Edit book: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Down) to edit the next file in the book spine.
• calibre-smtp: Verify relay server TLS certificates by default. New option –dont-verify-server-certificate to restore old behavior.

New features v3.26.1

• Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records.
• Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window.
• Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files
• Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files.
• E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title.
• Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold.

New features v3.25

• Kobo driver: Support the new Clara HD
• PDF Output: Add an option to use page margins from the input document, specified via @page CSS rules.

New features v3.24.2

• Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
• PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.
• PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates
• Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel
• Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.
• Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities
• Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks
• ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.

New features v3.23

• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
• Book polishing: Add an option to upgrade EPUB 2 to EPUB 3
• DOCX Input: Convert text written with dingbat fonts such as Wingding or Symbol correctly.
• When choosing the page to use as a cover from a PDF file, add a button to render more pages, if needed
• TXT Input: Add support for embedded images that use relative URLs when converting markdown or textile. Note that this will only work if you are converting using the ebook-convert command line tool as the main calibre program moves files around, so relative references will not be valid.
• Edit book: Insert special character: Add an option to select if searching should match all words or any of the words
• Edit book: Insert special character: When searching by name match prefixes in addition to whole words. So you can now type “horiz” to match “horizontal”.
• Linux installer: Simplify the command used to install calibre and add support for Ubuntu 18.04 which is missing a default python executable
• When upgrading EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 add the ‘epub’ namespace to all HTML files, for convenience.
• Kobo driver: Add an option to not maintain bookmarks/read status/etc. when resending a book already on the device.

New features v3.22.1

• Edit book: Add a tool to upgrade books from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 (Tools->Upgrade book internals)
• Add support for the FBZ format (zipped FB2)
• Kindle driver: Change the height of generated thumbnails to 500px, needed for the Oasis 2017
• Edit book: When bulk renaming files add an option to rename by the order in which the files appear in the book.
• Polishing: Recognize titlepages that are marked as covers in the EPUB 3 landmarks section
• Edit Book: Automatically updated the modified timestamp in the OPF when saving EPUB 3 books.
• Remove the ISBNDB metadata plugin as ISBNDB no longer allows free lookups.

New features v3.21

• Browser viewer: Allow showing the time left in the current chapter/book in the header and footer areas of the book.

  To use go to the preferences of the browser viewer and customize the headers and footers to display the time left. Note that time left in chapter only works correctly if chapters are in separate HTML files in the book.

• Manage tags dialog: Searching now shows all matching tags and there is an undo button to undo changes.
• Add an output profile for the Kindle Oasis 2017

New features v3.20

• Content server: Allow editing the metadata of books from the book details page

  On the book details page, you can now edit any metadata and change covers by clicking the edit metadata icon in the right area of the top bar. Note that only users that have write permissions for the library can edit metadata.

• Kobo driver: Recognize Kobo Aura 2 with new firmware (4.6.10188)

New features v3.19

• Driver for the new PocketBook 740
• Allow using relative URLs in comments type metadata. The relative URLs are interpreted relative to the book folder in the calibre library
• Edit book: Reports: Do not show characters from the HTML markup in the characters report.
• Allow adding the Virtual library button to any toolbar/menu via Preferences->Toolbars & menus

New features v3.18

• Browser viewer: Allow long tapping a word to look it up in a dictionary or search the internet for it.

New features v3.17

• Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the column headers and choosing ‘Split the book list’

  This is useful to ‘lock’ one or more columns in place so that they are always visible even when scrolling through other columns. Also, the split list has a separate right click menu which you can configure via Preferences->Toolbars and menus

• Store temporary files used by the editor and viewer in the cache directory to try to prevent errors caused by ‘file cleaner’ programs deleting temporary files still in use

New features v3.16

• Content server: Allow adding and deleting of books using the web interface

  Use the + icon in the top bar of the book list to add new books and the trash icon in the top bar of the book details page to a delete a book. Note that only authenticated users are allowed to perform these actions, so you have to setup user accounts for the server to use these features.

• Allow removing the close button from tabs in the Virtual library tab bar. Right click the tab bar and choose ‘Lock tabs’ to do that.
• calibredb export: Add –progress option
• Bulk metadata editing: Show progress bars to track progress of the operation
• Content server: When downloading books from the server send both the ASCII and full Unicode file names. Browsers that support RFC 6266 can make use of the unicode file name.
• Content server: Show a warning popup on Apple devices when the user tries to search with an expression containing smart quotes, since Apple devices now automatically replace quotes with smart quotes when typing.

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New features v3.15

• Browser viewer: Allow customizing what information is displayed in the header and footer areas. Access Preferences from the viewer controls to change.
• Add support for MTP devices on FreeBSD
• ToC editor: Add more case changing operations to the right click menu
• Content server: Redirect pre 2.x book URLs to new 3.x URLs via a JavaScript redirect
• Content server: Allow opening entries in the book list in a new tab via middle click/right click
• Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some fields when using the Edit metadata->Copy/paste actions
• Linux: Allow using calibre-tray.png in the calibre resources folder to override the system tray icon.

New features v3.14

• User manual: A new quick reference primer for regular expression syntax https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/regexp_quick_reference.html
• Content server: Allow viewing the book metadata while reading a book. In the viewer controls, tap Goto and then Metadata to see the metadata.
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
• Bulk metadata edit: Allow choosing the algorithm used for changing the case of titles
• Get books: The koobe.pl store plugin has now become the Swiat Ebookow store plugin
• Allow Copy/paste of book metadata from the main book list. Right click the Edit metadata button to access these actions.
• Allow disabling the confirmation popup when opening the containing folder of many books at once.

New features v 3.13

• Driver for the new Bq Cervantes 4
• Edit book: Auto-generate links to existing stylesheets when adding a new HTML file.
• Add a button to easily clear server logs in Preferences->Sharing over the net->Show server logs.
• Catalog generation: Store the list of fields to be used in generating CSV/XML catalogs per library.
• Bulk metadata edit: Make the custom series controls similar to the builtin series ones, with the same set of features
• Edit book: Pre-select existing cover image (if any) in add cover dialog
• Make the Manage saved searches dialog a little easier for new users.
• Add a tweak to control behavior of Enter on the book list
• Content server: Fix random book button on book details page multiplying.
• Edit Book: Bulk file rename dialog: Remember last used prefix for renaming files

New features v3.12

• Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3
• Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the pop-up Book details window. To configure, simply click the ‘Configure’ link at the bottom of the window.
• Wireless driver: Allow specifying extra file formats (unknown to calibre) to send

New features v3.11.1

• Kindle driver: Add support for the new Kindle Oasis
• Browser viewer: Allow the user to specify a CSS style sheet to control the look and feel of the text
• Edit book spell check: In the list of suggestions show the original word in italics.
• Edit Book: When adding a new HTML file, add it after the file being currently edited instead of at the end.
• Column coloring: Add a contains rule type.
• Book details panel: Allow saving the displayed cover to disk via the right click context menu.

New features v3.10

• Browser viewer: Show footnotes in a popup window. Similar to the popup footnote functionality in the calibre viewer.
• Content server: Add an option to control the timeout for making AJAX queries to the server.

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New features of Calibre 3.7

• Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new ‘vl:’ prefix
• Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download buttons.
• Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size from 150px to 105px
• Narrow layout: Fix wasted space to the left of the comments in the Book details panel

New features of Calibre 3.6

• Linux: Use native file dialogs via zenity or kdialog, if available
• Copy to library: Add an action to show a dialog that allows for easy selection of libraries for copy/move. Useful when there are a large number of libraries to choose from.
• Server: Allow deleting a downloaded book from the “Browse all downloaded books” screen

New features of Calibre 3.5

• Server: Add a new ‘custom’ mode for the book list, where you can specify exactly what metadata fields are displayed, via a template (see Preferences->Sharing over the net->Book list template)
• Speed up HTML parsing by an order of magnitude, by switching from html5lib to html5-parser
• Add support for touch screens to the main calibre book list. You can now flick to scroll, tap to select and double-tap to view books.
• Server: Add an option to ban IP addresses if there are too many failed login attempts
• calibre-debug: Change the –explode-book action to only create the exploded directory and not rebuild the file. Add a new –implode-book action to rebuild the file, separately.
• Book details panel: Add Manage authors/series/tags/etc. to the menu when right clicking on the item
• Kobo driver: Update for new firmware

New features of Calibre 3.4

• Edit book: Allow exporting all selected files to the computer from the ‘File browser’ by right clicking and choosing ‘Export selected files’
• Server: When returning to the search page, remember the last used state of the Tag browser
• Template language: Allow the in_list() functions to return different values depending on what is found
• Add a configurable shortcut to move the focus from Quickview to the book list

New features of Calibre 3.3

• Quickview panel: Allow opening and closing the panel via the Layout button in the bottom right corner.
• Book details panel: Allow right clicking on author names to search for books by the author on Amazon.
• Edit book: When doing a Replace/Count all with multiple searches add a ‘Show details’ button on the result dialog that shows the individual counts for each search.
• Comments editor: Add a button to easily insert separators (i.e. <hr> tags) when editing comments

New features of Calibre 3.2.1

• Server: Allow logged in users to change their passwords by clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the home screen.
• macOS: Add headless support: calibre command-line utilities can now run on macOS machines without a screen

New features of 3.1

• Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking the Paste ISBN button to instead paste an identifier with a different prefix.
• Tag browser: Add an option to control the spacing between items
• Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to show individual layout buttons in the status bar, as was the case in calibre 2.x
• Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to easily set/clear Yes/no columns
• Support for RAR 5.0 format RAR and CBR files

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Calibre 3.0 is released on June 16, 2017. Calibre 2.x is starting almost two years ago.

What is New in Calibre 3.0?

• The new Content server
  • You can start the Content server by clicking the Connect/share button in calibre. Then just open up a browser and type http://localhost:8080 in the address bar. You will see a list of calibre libraries. Click on one and browse the books. Click on a book and you will have the option to read or download it.
• Support for High Resolution (Retina) screens
• Support for icon themes and a new default icon set
• Conversion to Microsoft Word (DOCX)
• Backwards incompatibilities

Here is the list of new features for Calibre 3.0:

• For details on the major changes in calibre between 2.0 and 3.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve
• 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

Download 64bit Windows version Calibre here https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64

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The most exciting features added in past eight updates are following:

New Features of v2.66

• A simplified calibre logo
• Edit Book: Allow restricting a search to the files currently open for editing
• Driver for the PocketBook Touch HD
• Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 3.20

New Features of v2.65.1

• Driver for Kobo Aura One and Aura Edition 2
• Kobo driver: Add an option to ignore some collections on the device. The specified collections will not be touched by the driver.
• Add an option in Preferences->Searching to make searching case-sensitive
• DOCX Input: Add support for right-to-left text/tables

New Features of v2.64

• Custom columns: Add a new ‘Short text’ column type that behaves like the builtin title column

  More generally, you can now customize Comments-like columns, controlling how their headings are displayed in the Book Details panel and also specifying what kind of data they contain (plain text, HTML or even Markdown)

• Edit book: Function mode: Allow appending text to the end of the marked text when running function mode search/replace on marked text
• PDF Output: Add a new variable _TOP_LEVEL_SECTION_ for use in header/footer templates that resolves to the current top-most section in the Table of Contents
• Linux/OSX: Shutdown gracefully on receiving the interrupt or terminate Unix signals

New Features of v2.63

• News download: Allow controlling which periodicals are automatically sent to a specific email in Preferences->Sharing by email
• Edit Book: Update regex engine to support Unicode 9.0

New Features of v2.62

• EPUB metadata: Support for reading and writing EPUB 3 specific metadata. Now when processing EPUB 3 files, calibre will generate/use EPUB 3 specific metadata constructs when available, for example for series.
• Recognize the newest Kindle model, that started shipping today.

New Features of v2.61

• Driver for FNAC (re-branded Bq) with new firmware.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add an auto fix action to remove all links to a missing resource (such as a deleted stylesheet) automatically.

New Features of v2.60

• Edit metadata: In the drop down list for languages, show the five most recently used languages first.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for missing navigation documents in EPUB 3 books
• Kobo driver: Improved configuration dialog for the Kobo Touch device driver
• Copy to Library: Do not abort the copy process if only some books fail to copy, instead report which books failed and copy the rest.
• News download: Make all relative links (those starting with /) absolute. Useful when reading on a device that supports web browsing.
• EPUB metadata: Add an option to disable adding of cover images to EPUB files that declare no cover image in their metadata (Preferences->Plugins->Customize the Set EPUB metadata plugin)

New Features of v2.59

• Amazon metadata download: Download the series information when available from amazon.com
• Amazon metadata download: Recognize common patterns of embedding the series name after the title and remove it automatically
• Edit Book: Add support for EPUB 3 to the Table of Contents tool. Now when editing EPUB 3 files using the tool will automatically generate both the EPUB 3 navigation document and the NCX table of contents for backwards compatibility.
• EPUB Input: Implement reading of Table of Contents from EPUB 3 files that do not specify a fallback NCX ToC
• EPUB metadata: When setting a cover image for an EPUB file that has no metadata cover image defined, add the new cover image as a pure metadata cover instead of aborting.

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There are a lot of updates during these days.  So I just put the major new features for this period.

• Edit Book: A new tool to transform book styling using easy to create rules. [2.53]

  For example, you can create rules to change colours in the book or to double the font size of all text in the book, etc. For details, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#transforming-css-properties

• A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data — books, settings and plugins [2.47]

  Right click the calibre icon in the main calibre toolbar and choose “Export/import all calibre data” to run this tool. It is useful if you want to move to a new computer or duplicate your calibre setup on a second computer, with minimal effort. This tool is very new, so if you run into problems, please report bugs. You can always use the old manual method of copying library folders as a fallback.

• Implement tag mapping to automatically filter/transform tags when adding books or downloading metadata [2.39]

  Now you can create simple rules that will filter/transform the tags when adding new books or downloading metadata for books. To setup the rules, go to Preferences->Adding books and Preferences->Downloading metadata

• Icon themes: Change the calibre icons easily via icon themes [2.36]

  You can now change the icons calibre uses easily via Preferences->Look & Feel->Change icon theme. Several icon themes are already available for calibre

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New Features of v2.20

• ODT Input: Add backlinks for footnotes/endnotes and improve their formatting.
• Windows: When running on windows 8 and newer register with default programs so that users can more easily select calibre or its viewer/editor as the default program to launch ebook files.
• Make publishers in the book details panel clickable
• Edit Book spell check: For mis-spelled words of the form one:two offer one: two as a suggested correction.

New Features of v2.19

• Quick view window: Allow the quickview window to be docked into the main calibre window.
• Add empty book: Allow setting the title as well as the author and series for the added empty book records
• Windows driver for Grammata Papyre 602.
• Edit Book: Add an option to turn off auto-completion of closing tags
• Allow adding a description for custom columns.
• Book Details panel: Allow any identifier of the form url+number to become a clickable link. For example: url1:http://example.com

New Features of v2.18

• Edit Book: Add ‘Style Classes’ and ‘Links’ report pages to the Reports tool
• Tag browser: Allow expanding all children of a node by right clicking and choosing ‘Expand All’
• Preferences: Re-arrange the controls to avoid needing to move the mouse from the top to the bottom of the dialog when closing the dialog after making some changes

New Features of v2.17

• Edit Book: A new reports tool that shows a summary of files, images, words, characters and styles used in the book.

  The reports tool is a great way to get an overview of the different parts of your book. Every line in the report is hot-linked, double clicking it jumps to the places in the book where that item is used.

• Edit Book: Allow adding the ‘Manage Snippets’ action to the toolbar, for easy access

New Features of v2.16

• Edit Book: Add support for snippets — small pieces of text that are often re-used.

  You can now create your own snippets and insert them into the text with only a few keystrokes. The snippets include support for placeholders that you can jump between. See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/snippets.html for details.

New Features of v2.15

• Edit Book: Add auto-completion for links.

  Now as you type the filename in href or src attributes, a popup with possible completions is displayed. See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#auto-complete for details.

• Edit Book Function mode: Add builtin functions to change case of text, ignoring HTML tags in the matched text
• Edit Book – Check Book: Allow auto-fixing of file not in spine errors
• Driver for Papyre 624 ml
• Conversion: Convert images encoded as data URIs in the input document into normal images, as some ebook reader software cannot handle data URIs.

New Features of v2.14

• Metadata review dialog: Automatically insert series number when selecting a series from the completion dropdown. Also if the user does not specify a series number, use 1 as the default, instead of not setting the series.

New Features of v2.13

• Driver for the new CYBOOK MUSE ebook reader
• Edit metadata dialog: Allow editing identifiers in a dedicated window by right clicking on the identifiers edit box.
• Allow generating a cover from metadata by right clicking the cover are in the book details panel also.
• Content server: Server KEPUB files with the extension kepub.epu when connecting to the browser on Kobo devices
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware version 3.12
• Edit metadata dialog: Add a keyboard shortcut to swap title and author [Alt+Down]

New Features of v2.12

• Edit Book: Automatically complete the closing tag in HTML/XML files when typing </
• Edit Book: Implement auto-indent, now when pressing the Enter key to start a new line, the new line’s indentation is automatically created
• Driver for the Verso E71b ebook reader
• Redesigned the ‘Add a custom news source’ dialog to make it easier to use, with a more powerful python editor
• Make translations of the User Manual available in many different languages (fully or partially translated). Click the ‘Change Language’ link in the sidebar of the manual to change the language
• Edit Book: Search & Replace function mode: Add a new function annotation (replace.file_order) to control what order multiple files are processed in, when doing Replace All. See the User Manual for details.

New Features of v2.11

• Edit Book: Add a new ‘function mode’ for the Search and Replace tool

  The function mode allows you to create python functions that run on the results of Search and Replace. This allows you to do arbitrarily powerful text processing. For example, you can automatically fix the case of text, automatically add section number to headings, and so on. For examples and documentation, see: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/function_mode.html

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It has been a year since calibre 1.0 and lots has changed in calibre-land. The biggest new feature is an e-book editor, capable of editing ebooks in both the EPUB and AZW3 (Kindle) formats. Click on the items in the list below to learn more about each new feature.

Note that because of the move to Qt 5, calibre no longer supports either Windows XP or versions of OS X older than 10.7 (Lion). If you are using either of these operating systems, you should stay with calibre 1.48

• The e-book editor
• Comparing books
• Support for Android phones and tablets on OS X
• Now uses Qt 5
• Support for touchscreen windows tablets
• Improvements to library organisation

Release: 2.0 [21 Aug, 2014]

• Add support for MTP devices (Android phones/tablets) on OS X
• Update the version of Qt used by calibre to Qt 5. This fixes various longstanding bugs in calibre that were caused by bugs in Qt 4.
• Edit Book: Make the edit saved search/add saved search popup window non-modal.
• Tag Browser: Show format specific icons for the format entries in the Tag Browser
• Library check: Add buttons to conveniently mark all fixable/deletable items.

Download 64bit Calibre here: http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64

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New Features of 1.37

• Edit Book: Live spell checking in the code view. Now spelling errors are highlighted in the code view for convenient correction as you type. This can be turned off via Preferences->Editor.
• E-book viewer: When using the tap and hold gesture on a touchscreen, allow lookup of the word currently under the finger in the dictionary or online.
• Edit Book: Allow putting the editor into replace mode by pressing the Insert key
• Content server: Add more descriptive titles to the OPDS feeds, where possible.
• Edit Book: Update the Table of Contents view automatically when the ncx file is edited.
• Edit book: Insert tag button: Allow entering attributes along with the tag name to make it easy to repeatedly insert, for example, <span class=’special’></span>.
• Windows driver for Woxter Scriba 190.
• Edit Book: Add an entry to the context menu of the preview panel to open external URLs when a link is right clicked on

New Features of 1.36

• Edit Book: A new tool to filter style information (Tools->Filter style information). Useful to easily remove some CSS properties from the entire book.
• DOCX Input: Add support for cross references. Cross references that are used to insert hyperlinks are now converted into hyperlinks in the output document. Features to insert paragraph/page numbers are not supported.
• Add support for viewing kepub files in the calibre viewer, by treating them as plain epub files
• Edit book: In the Insert Link tool show a few words of text alongside the location anchor name, to make it easier to know what a location is
• Manage user dictionaries: Allow copying all selected words by right clicking them and choosing ‘Copy to clipboard’.
• Content server: Make .ibook format files available in OPDS feeds
• Edit book: Allow copying the list of errors from the Check Book tool to the clipboard by right clicking on the list of errors
• Book polishing: If the books being polished have an ORIGINAL_EPUB/AZW3 format, warn the user that polishing will use it as the source and ask for confirmation.

New Features of 1.35

• Edit Book: Redesign the syntax highlighter to improve performance for large documents and extended editing sessions.
• Edit book: Make cursor movement smooth by not highlighting matching tags while the cursor is moving. Only match highlighting tags if the cursor stays still for a time.
• Spellcheck dialog: Indicate whether a word is ignored in the Misspelled column
• Spellcheck dialog: Pressing Ctrl+C on the words list copies only selected words, regardless of current cell
• Add a copy to clipboard action to the context menu for the spell check dialog
• Edit book: Fix save button incorrectly disabled after a failed save

New Features of 1.34

• E-book viewer: When in flow mode, handle swiping on the touchscreen differently. Swiping now scrolls line by line in flow mode instead of page by page. If you wish to scroll page by page in flow mode, tap instead of swiping.
• Conversion: Preserve all guide entries that are of a type present in the EPUB 2.0 specification. These entries are used by newer Kindle readers to populate the Go To jump list
• When adding MOBI files if the author name is in LN, FN format, auto change it to FN LN format, as the MOBI format has no author sort field. This behavior can be disabled by setting Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to copy.
• Spellcheck: When checking French text list all words that have the same stem as a single word. So j’aime and aime are listed as a single word.
• Spell check: Add a context (right click) menu that allows for quick operations on all selected words
• Manage user dictionaries: Add a button to import a list of words in bulk into the user dictionary
• Spell check dialog: Allow sorting words case sensitively

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