Calibre

Calibre is an open source e-book library management application designed for the 21th century, for the digital world that were are living in right now. It lets users to manipulate digital books in any way possible. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create electronic books based on recipes of your very own ideas.

Features at a glance

The software can download news from a sleuth of various sources, and comes with a content server for online access. Syncing ebooks to a supported mobile reader device is also possible with Calibre. E-book library management is the the main component of the application, displayed every time you open the application. From here, you can convert and organize e-books in a simple manner. It imports and exports many ebook formats, including ePub, MOBI, AZW, DOC, XML, etc. Just like any other software that can be extended via plugins, Calibre features an internal collection of add-ons, which provide support for editing metadata of ebooks, or add support for various ebook readers.

Supports a wide range of eBook reader devices

Among the supported devices, we can mention Amazon Kindle, Astak EZReader, Augen The Book, Barnes & Noble Nook, BeBook, Bookeen Cybook, Booq bq, Ectaco JetBook, Jinke Hanlin, Kobo, PocketBook, Sony, Sanda Bambook, as well as any other Android phone or tablet, and Apple’s iPhone, iPod and iPad devices.

Availability and supported OSes

The Calibre software is distributed as sources and binary archives for all major Linux operating systems. If you want to install Calibre on your Linux distribution, you should search the ‘calibre’ package in its default software repositories. However, the latest version will always be available right here on Softoware.

Bottom line

We strongly suggest to use the Calibre application if you own an e-book reader device (see above supported devices) and you have a very large collection of electronic books.

What is new in this release:

• New features:
• 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
• Bug fixes:
• Content server: Display custom comments field on the book details page in the same order as in the calibre GUI
• Edit book: Fix open image editors not being updated when image file is replaced
• Fix keyboard shortcuts for Edit book tools created from plugins not working
• PDF Output: Fix error when trying to convert books that do not specify a language in their metadata.
• Browser viewer: Fix inability to open books that contain zero-byte stylesheets/images
• Improved news sources:
• Boston Globe
• Newsweek
• Ambito and Ambito Financiero
• New York Times
• New England Journal of Medicine
• The Hindu Business Line
• Private Eye
• Le Temps

What is new in version 3.26.1:

• Version 3.27.1 fixes a build error in 3.27.0 that caused calibre not to start on macOS older than High Sierra

What is new in version :

• New features:
• 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.
• Bug fixes:
• Browser viewer: Fix goto next/previous section actions not working when the sections are in different individual HTML files.
• Edit book/Book polishing: When compressing images and the compressed image is larger thant he original, use the original image.
• PDF input: Fix conversion of multi-level PDF Outline causing duplicate entries in the Table of Contents.
• Edit book: Fix incorrect EPUB 3 declarations being added to the OPF file when adding covers to an EPUB 2 book
• Edit book: Fix backspace key un-indenting instead of deleting even when text is selected if the cursor is at the start of the line
• Tag browser: Fix position not bing preserved when deleting books.
• Edit Book: Use the cache directory rather than the temp directory to store working files. Hopefully prevents temp file cleaners from destroying books.
• EPUB input: Handle books that erroneously set the mimetype for font files to text/plain
• AZW3 input: Do not fail to process files with invalid internal flow references.
• When updating plugins, do not show the dialog asking which toolbar to put the plugin, even if the user has removed the plugin for all toolbars.
• Content server: Fix using the Clear logs button preventing the server from restarting until calibre itself is restarted.
• Improved news sources:
• LA Times
• Popular Science
• Nikkei News

What is new in version 3.12.0:

• New features:
• Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3
• Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the popup 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
• Bug fixes:
• Fix a regression that caused clicking the clear button in the main search bar to not unapply the current search until enter is pressed.
• Linux: Fix a regression causing calibre to fail to start on systems with no DBUS session bus
• Browser viewer: Fix body font being forced to sans-serif, overriding in book and user stylesheet settings
• Fix sending email failing of the computer's FQDN is set to a single period.
• Improved news sources:
• New Yorker
• Geopolityka

What is new in version 3.7:

• New features:
• 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
• Bug fixes:
• Server: Fix downloading files via the list of formats not working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS
• Browser viewer: Fix controls help overlay not being displayed the first time the viewer is used
• MOBI Output: Fix a regression causing a crash for some input documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties.
• DOCX Input: Fix framed lists being rendered with the frame inside the bullets instead of outside it.
• Fix a regression that could cause conversion to crash when using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX.
• Conversion: Fix remove first image option not working for comic input with the disable comic processing option.
• Server: Fix tooltip not working in the cover grid view.
• Workaround for Qt bug that prevented using the shift and ctrl keys with the touchscreen
• Linux: fix native KDE file dialog not working on older systems
• Linux: Fix KDE dialogs not supporting multiple file name filter groups
• Fix libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather than just library name
• Server: Allow hyphens in user names
• calibredb.exe: Fix misleading error message when connecting to a server with incorrect username or password
• New news sources:
• Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks by fenuks
• IDPixel and The Insider by bugmen00t
• Improved news sources:
• Asian review of Books
• Financial Times
• National Post
• Go Comics

What is new in version 3.6:

• New features:
• 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
• Bug fixes:
• Hopefully fix an issue with the book list jumping around when using the mouse on some computers
• E-book viewer: Change the default fonts on windows to the Liberation font family. This matches the other platforms and avoids rendering issues with Times New Roman.
• DOCX Output: Convert images placed by themselves inside block tags as block images rather than inline images.
• Fix a typo that broke the download of a few news sources
• ebook-viewer.exe: Fix --continue-reading not working
• Fix non XML safe characters in feed descriptions causing news download to fail.
• Browser viewer: Fix books that contain broken links with unicode characters in their paths not working.
• Quickview: Fix regression in previous release that broke the 'Lock quickview' control
• New news sources:
• Various Sardinian news by tzium
• Improved news sources:
• Navy Times

What is new in version 3.3:

• New features:
• 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. tags) when editing comments
• Bug fixes:
• Browser viewer: Fix back/forward buttons not working correctly when clicking on links that lead to different internal files in the book.
• Server: Fix using 'Show more books' button and then changing list mode setting causing resulting book list to be incomplete
• Server: Fix changing sort/search in the /mobile view only working with the default library.
• DOCX Input: Fix alt and title attributes for some images not being preserved
• Amazon metadata download: Change the default source from Bing to Google as the Bing cache seems to be having trouble at the moment
• ISBNDB metadata download: Ignore SSL errors when contacting isbndb.com as they seem to have no intention of fixing their broken SSL certificate
• Conversion: Fix heuristics processing incorrectly removing some tags.
• Handle non-ASCII binary strings in the author_name_prefix/suffix tweaks.
• Improved news sources:
• Politico
• The Times
• The Sunday Times Magazine

What is new in version 3.0:

• New Features:
• 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
• 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
• New news sources:
• RussiaFeed by Darko Miletic
• Improved news sources:
• Economist
• New York Times
• Private Eye
• The Hindu
• Harper's Magazine
• Lifehacker
• The Daily Mail

What is new in version 2.83.0:

• New Features:
• PDF Output: Default to generating PDFs with a page size of letter instead of taking the page size from the output profile.
• This avoids user confusion/bug reports about PDF Output having "too large fonts". There is a new option "Use profile size" to have the conversion use the output profile page size instead.
• PDF/DOCX Output: Add separate, pdf/docx specific, page margin settings that override the common settings.
• Useful because page margin settings for page oriented formats, such as PDF and DOCX are usually different than those for reflowable formats such as EPUB
• Table of Contents tool: Add an undo button
• Metadata jacket: Show custom rating columns using stars
• Metadata jacket: Change formatting of series to match that used by the book details panel. Also allow access to the raw series name and number when customizing the jacket template.
• calibredb check_library: Vacuum database when running the check
• Check Book: Add a check for empty identifier elements
• Bug Fixes:
• Edit book/Book polishing: When adding a cover to an EPUB 3.0 file set the svg property if a SVG cover wrapper is used
• Refresh the book list when a User Category is added/edited.
• EPUB metadata: Fix deleting ISBN from EPUB file could result in an EPUB file without a package identifier if the ISBN was used as the package identifier.
• Amazon metadata download: Fix title and author names being bold in the downloaded comments when using bing to get amazon metadata.
• PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke PDF Output for documents containing mathematics.
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "Clear recently read books" action in the viewer
• New news sources:
• Jacobin magazine by Darko Miletic
• Improved news sources:
• Go Comics
• Die Zeit (subscription)
• Pagina12
• New York Magazine

What is new in version 2.82.0:

• New Features
• Edit Book: Saved Searches: Add keyboard shortcut (Alt+Up/Down Arrow) to move selected searches
• Bug Fixes:
• Fix a typo in the previous release that caused dynamically updated metadata source plugins to stop working.
• Catalog generation: Ignore tags with commas in them when generating genres
• News download: Do not use Microsoft user agents as more and more websites are serving JPEG XR images to these browsers
• Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious results when searching for books that are not present on amazon using a search engine.
• Get Books: Fix free samples being detected as independent books when searching OPDS based stores such as Feedbooks.
• Edit Book: Saved Searches: Preserve selection when using arrows to move multiple items
• Fix template formatter functions not being reloaded after a check library operation
• Fix an error during shutdown caused by some library closed plugins
• New news sources:
• The Morning Paper by Darko Miletic
• Improved news sources:
• The Economist
• Telegraph UK

What is new in version 2.81:

• New Features:
• Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading amazon metadata from multiple sources. You can now configure the Amazon plugin via Preferences->Metadata download to use either the amazon servers, or various search engine caches to get the metadata. Should help with the recent CAPTCHA problems when downloading metadata from amazon
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
• Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Always add the original word as one of the spelling corrections, so that small edits to the word can be made easily.
• Edit Book: Saved searched Dialog: Allow re-arranging the saved searches using drag and drop.
• Implement auto update of builtin metadata download plugins, just as for recipes and Get Books plugins. Needed as the websites they get data from often change.
• Edit Book: When inserting full screen images, use the actual image dimensions in the generated SVG code, when available
• Linux installer: Check that the umask is suitable before running the installer. Should fix breakage on systems where users have changed the user umask but neglected to also alter it for sudo
• Bulk metadata edit: Remove the control to delete specific formats as it is redundant. This functionality is already present by right clicking the Remove books button
• Bug Fixes:
• TXT Input: When detecting the encoding of txt files only use the first four kilobytes of text. Fixes excessively slow conversion of very large text files.
• Get Books: Fix price not being displayed for books from Amazon dues to website changes
• GetBooks: Update Google Books plugin for website changes
• E-book viewer: Fix slow startup when recently opened files are on a slow/malfunctioning networked filesystem.
• Google metadata download: Fix metadata not being found when the title of the book includes a sub-title
• Improve downloading of covers from the google books metadata source
• News download: Fix a bug that could cause a crash when downloading an SVG image.
• Edit book: Fix a regression that caused pasting copied text from programs that generate both HTML and plain text when copying to paste the HTML in preference to the plain text
• Improved news sources:
• tyzden
• The Economist
• Kansas City Star
• NYTimes
• The Spectator

What is new in version 2.80:

• New Features:
• Add support for sideloading of KFX files created with the third-party KFX calibre plugin
• Edit book: Allow drag and drop of image files, stylesheets and html files into the editor to insert the appropriate and tags and add the files to the book automatically.
• Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware
• Edit Book: Spell Check: If there are no suggestions fill the suggested word box with the original word.
• Viewer: add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to show/hide toolbars.
• Bug Fixes:
• PDF Output: Fix courier font not being rendered when converting on windows.
• E-mail delivery: Add a Message-ID header when sending emails. Reduces probability of mails sent from calibre being marked as spam
• Save to disk: Fix path shortening being applied to entire save template even when saving to singe directory.
• Get Books: Update the Virualo and Publi store plugins for website changes
• Viewer: Fix regression that caused slow opening of some books with missing font/css/image files
• Viewer: Pressing Ctrl+F in fullscreen mode should show the controls.
• Edit book: Do not allow creating multiple new files whose names differ only by case.
• Viewer: Use heuristics to try to detect comics encoded as fixed layout EPUBs to ensure they are displayed as intended.
• New news sources:
• Various new and improved Belgian news sources by erkfuizfeuadjfjzefzfuzeff
• Improved news sources:
• The Atlantic
• The Financial Times

What is new in version 2.79.0:

• New Features:
• Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs
• OS X/Linux: Show an informational popup message when an Android device is plugged in that needs the user to tap Allow for the connection to work.
• Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference
• Bug Fixes:
• Conversion: Fix regression that broke conversion of some epub files when using the 'Remove first image' option.
• Get Books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes
• Windows MTP driver: Fix error when enumerating device storage not being reported during debug device detection
• Tag Browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number.
• Fix crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on linux
• Fix Get Books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8
• Fix importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the apply button
• Improved news sources:
• Strange Horizons
• Wall Street Journal
• Bangkok Post
• The Atlantic
• NYTimes
• LA Times
• New Yorker
• The Straits Times

What is new in version 2.76:

• Bug Fixes:
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the viewer on systems where the temporary directory is a symlink (common on OSX).
• EPUB Input: Fix EPUB2 files that specify a cover image via a tag but not in the not getting a cover when converted to PDF
• PDF Output: Fix conversion failure when input document contains first page with no renderable content.
• Editor: Fix incorrect handling of some regular expressions in the Search tool.
• OS X: Fix dynamically generated context menus, such as the sort by menu not working.
• Fix a crash when running with assertions turned on in Qt.
• Edit Book: Reports tool: Fix an error when right clicking on items in the Links view.
• Improved news sources:
• Clarin
• La Prensa
• Telam
• iProfesional
• Buenos Aires Economico

What is new in version 2.73:

• New Features:
• Add a preference in Preferences->Look & Feel to hide the row numbers in the main book list.
• Allow Export/Import of column coloring and icon rules.
• Edit Book: Allow bulk changing of file extension for selected files by right clicking ont he selected files in the file browser.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for nav documents that contain no ToC in EPUB 3 books
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add a test to check if the embedded fonts in the book have their embedding permissions enabled
• Bug Fixes:
• Pressing the up arrow in an date edit with undefined value should jump to the current date rather than Feb 101
• EPUB Input: When an invalid nav based ToC is used in an EPUB 3.0 document that also has a fallback NCX ToC, use the fallback ToC.
• Fix a regression that broke the icon theme creation tool in the previous release
• Fix insert character dialog not reflowing characters on resize. Also only allow the search bar in the dialog to get input focus
• Improved news sources:
• Dilbert
• The Hindu

What is new in version 2.71:

• New Features:
• calibre's tenth birthday edition:
• calibre was first released (as libprs500) ten years ago today. A big thank you to the entire calibre community -- users, contributors and developers -- for keeping it humming for so long.
• A new set of icons for calibre:
• To celebrate calibre turning ten, calibre now has a brand new set of icons designed from scratch. Note that you can choose between many different icon sets for calibre, including the original icons, from Preferences->Look & Feel->Choose icon theme
• A short video commemorating the occasion: https://youtu.be/Q95NfFKc0v8
• Book details panel: Add a copy all action to the right click menu.
• Bug Fixes:
• Get Books: Update ebookpoint and woblink store plugins for website changes
• Edit Book: When un-marking text auto-change the 'search where' location to what it was before text was marked rather than 'current file'.
• Automatic adding: Show an error if the user specifies a folder whose name starts with a dot or underscore.
• OS X: Fix a regression that caused incorrect display of the icon in pop-up message boxes when using a Retina display.
• Kobo driver: Fix an error when migrating very old settings
• Kobo driver: Fix a regression that broke handling of reading status for devices running old 1.9x versions of the Kobo firmware
• Edit Book: When using the arrange into folders tool do not change the case of already existing folders in the book.
• Improved news sources:
• LWN Weekly
• Financial Times
• MIT Technology Review
• The Hindu

What is new in version 2.70:

• New Features:
• Edit Book: Add a tool to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.) that are not included in the book.
• Make custom columns available in the Alter Tag Browser->Manage categories sub menu
• Bug Fixes:
• Conversion: Fix incorrect resolution of references to resources in HTML files that exist in a folder level above the OPF file. This could lead to styles being incorrectly processed in such HTML files.
• Get Books: Update the amazon store plugins for website changes
• Update ozon.ru metadata download plugin to fix searching for books by ISBN
• Edit Book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the preferences dialog for changing color schemes.
• Edit Book: Better error message when user tries to open a Check Book item that refers to a file that has been deleted since the last time Check Book was run.
• New news sources:
• Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen
• Improved news sources:
• Wired
• Ambito
• InfoWorld
• Instapaper
• San Jose Mercury News
• South China Morning Post
• Journal Gazette
• JPost
• Las Vegas Review
• Marietta Daily Journal
• DziennikBaltycki
• biweekly
• dwutygodnik
• GRY Online
• ESO
• TVN24
• And many more, see commit logs for details

What is new in version 2.69:

• New Features:
• Kobo driver: Support for firmware version 4.1 and Overdrive books on the device
• Edit Book: Highlight class names inside HTML tags
• Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow search & replace to work for ratings columns as well.
• Bug Fixes:
• Fix downloading of metadata from ozon.ru, which broke due to website changes
• Kobo driver: Fix delete of empty collections
• Kobo driver: Fix book previews being sometimes detected as actual books
• Cover Browser: Fix setting an empty template for the title causes an error
• Edit Book: On windows do not trigger shortcuts when using the right Alt (AltGr) key. This allows it to be used for entering special characters instead.
• Edit Book: Auto-add file extension when using the Save a Copy dialog if it is missing.
• Linux: Fix calibre not launching when used with some old VNC server implementations
• Windows: Run library restore in a separate process as on some windows machines, running it in the main process causes something in the system to lock the db file.
• Fix some news downloads in east asian languages not working because the truncation of article descriptions could cause invalid UTF-16 bytes in the string
• Fix incorrect timezone when editing custom date columns directly in the book list
• New news sources:
• Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen
• Improved news sources:
• New York Times
• Independent
• El tribuno de Salta

What is new in version 2.66:

• New Features:
• 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
• Bug Fixes:
• DOCX Input: Fix right-to-left alignment not working for footnotes.
• Sending email: Allow setting up a mail relay that uses encryption without a username and password.
• Linux: Fix calibre not working when the username is non-ASCII.
• DOCX Output: Ignore invalid text-indent values in the input document instead of erroring out.
• Portable Installer: Auto-create the installation folder specified on the command line if it does not exist
• Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections in option not working
• More user interface fixes for high DPI screens
• DOCX Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that could cause invalid values to be output for the text-align CSS property
• New news sources:
• Contropiano by michele

What is new in version 2.63.0:

• New Features:
• 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
• Bug Fixes:
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix pasting ISBN from clipboard not stripping garbage characters after a valid ISBN.
• Edit Book: Also refresh the Preview and Live CSS panels after performing any action that changes files other than the currently displayed file.
• E-book viewer: Fix the show metadata button not reading EPUB 3 metadata
• MOBI Output: Fix not being rendered as full-width in old MOBI files
• CSV Catalog output: Fix incorrect formatting of is_multiple custom columns.
• CSV Catalog Output: Separate multiple authors with & instead of comma. Fixes problems when the author name contains commas.
• EPUB 3 metadata: Fix updating metadata in EPUB 3 files not overwriting existing authors.
• Fix duplicate detection when adding books not working when the book title has leading or trailing whitespace
• Book details panel: Pick the color used for links from the current system color theme
• Windows: Fix file selection dialogs blurry on HiDPI monitors
• Improved news sources:
• Gosc Niedzielny
• Nikkei Free
• Financial Times (UK)
• Foreign Affairs
• Berlin Policy Journal
• Gazet van Antwerpen
• Hurriyet

What is new in version 2.62.0:

• New Features:
• 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.
• Bug Fixes:
• Tag Mapper: Allow specifying a space as the split character when creating a split tags rule
• Tag mapper: Fix upper case characters not working in 'contains' rules
• Smarten punctuation: Fix double dashes and triple dots being smartened even inside attribute values.
• HTML Input: Sanitize semi-colons from HTML filenames as they can cause problems with other EPUB consuming software.
• EPUB Input: Speed up reading of the book spine from the OPF file for books with a very large number of entries in the spine
• Edit Book: Reports: Characters: Fix sorting by count and name not working.
• Fix KoboTouch configuration migration not working for older settings
• New news sources:
• Various Russian news sources by bugmen00t
• Improved news sources:
• The Skeptic

What is new in version 2.59:

What is new in version 2.55:

• New Features:
• Allow creation of rules to convert arbitrary identifiers into clickable links in the book details panel (Prefrences->Look & Feel->Book details)
• Tag mapper: A new rule type 'split' allows you to easily split tags on a character
• Make the shutting down message an overlay so it is less disruptive
• Allow right clicking on Virtual Library tabs to edit/delete the virtual library.
• Tag mapper: Add a button to edit the list of tags in a tag mapper rule using the tag editor dialog.
• Bug Fixes:
• Conversion: Fix the obsolete HTML align=center markup (produced by Microsoft Word) not working for tables.
• Font subsetting: When font-variant: small-caps is used include the capital letters as well, in case either the font or the renderer do not support OpenType smcp.
• Font subsetting: Implement support for text-transform.
• Fix the target book entry in the book list not being refreshed after merging books. Only matters if you have a column based on book formats.
• E-book viewer: Fix a link that has some text along with a superscript/subscript being incorrectly detected as a footnote link
• Fix device detection on windows failing if the registry entries for the device contain a very long item.
• Edit Book: Fix an extra colon being added when setting the 'notes' semantic
• Ensure that author folder names are never windows reserved names
• E-book viewer: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being shown together.
• PDF Output: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being rendered together.
• Fix exception in custom column preferences when the column lookup key is changed
• Catalog generation: Do not crash is a book in the library has no uuid.
• New news sources:
• Kitekinto by pofa
• Improved news sources:
• Brand Eins
• Handelsblatt
• tyzden
• Newsweek