 PentangleWith our thoughts we make the world.Premium
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Vancouver BC
kudos:2 | [Updated] Free: Calibre v0.9.19 Feb 15, 2013 Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of 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
For Windows 32 & 64 bit, OS X, Linux & Portable
New tool: "Polish books" that allows you to perform various automated cleanup actions on EPUB and AZW3 files without doing a full conversion.
Polishing books is all about putting the shine of perfection on your ebook files. You can use it to subset embedded fonts, update the metadata in the book files from the metadata in the calibre library, manipulate the book jacket, etc. More features will be added in the future. To use this tool, go to Preferences->Toolbar and add the Polish books tool to the main toolbar. Then simply select the books you want to be polished and click the Polish books button. Polishing, unlike conversion, does not change the internal structure/markup of your book, it performs only the minimal set of actions needed to achieve its goals. Note that polish books is a completely new codebase, so there may well be bugs, polishing a book backs up the original as ORIGINAL_EPUB or ORIGINAL_AZW3, unless you have turned off this feature in Preferences->Tweaks, in which case you should backup your files manually. You can also use this tool from the command line with ebook-polish.exe.
Get it HERE.
Changelog HERE.
Features HERE. |
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 Snoopy2Premium
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Mobile, AL | reply to Pentangle
FYI: For users, like me, you can choose to have updates notify you automatically of updates, usually every Friday. Just thought I'd mention this feature..... |
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PentangleWith our thoughts we make the world.Premium
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Vancouver BC
kudos:2 | Thanks for the tip. That would be an RSS feed I guess? |
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Snoopy2Premium
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Mobile, AL | said by Pentangle:Thanks for the tip. That would be an RSS feed I guess?
Taken from the faq:
There is no need to update every week. If you are happy with how calibre works turn off the update notification and be on your merry way. Check back to see if you want to update once a year or so.
Pre downloading the updates for all users in the background would require about 80TB of bandwidth every week. That costs thousands of dollars a month. And calibre is currently growing at 300,000 new users every month.
If I implement a dialog that downloads the update and launches it, instead of going to the website as it does now, that would save the most ardent calibre updater, at most five clicks a week. There are far higher priority things to do in calibre development.
If you really, really hate downloading calibre every week but still want to be up to the latest, I encourage you to run from source, which makes updating trivial. Instructions are available here. |
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Updated again, thx P!  |
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