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Pentangle
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[Updated] Free: Calibre v1.0 Aug 23, 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

Get it HERE.

Changelog HERE.

Features HERE.

Note: Current for Kobo firmware update 2.8.1

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Here it is calibre 1.0 in all it's glory
Thursday, August 22, 2013
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calibre 1.0 has just been released. It took us only 7 years to get here . Yes, we are only a little more than 2 months away from calibre's 7th birthday. This is a big moment, so allow us to indulge in a few lines of nostalgia before we go into all the cool stuff that calibre 1.0 brings.

calibre started life on 31 October, 2006, soon after the release of the SONY PRS-500, the first e-ink based reader to be sold commercially in the US. This was accomplished with the help of the fine folks over at mobileread.com (A big thank you to you guys for your support over the years). calibre was then called libprs500. At the time there were no satisfactory tools to convert content into the LRF format, used by the SONY reader, so Kovid Goyal decided to implement a converter to convert the most popular e-book formats to LRF. This converter proved to be wildly popular.

As Kovid's e-book collection grew, he realized that managing it was quickly becoming unwieldy, so he decided to write a graphical interface to libprs500. At this point (mid 2008) libprs500 was renamed to calibre (Converter And LIBRary for Ebooks) . The libre in calibre stands for freedom, indicating that calibre is a free and open source product, modifiable by all. Nonetheless, calibre should be pronounced as cali-ber, not ca-libre. People often ask why, so I'll clarify. It is because Kovid wanted a regular English word that most people would know. He grew up in India where we are taught English (UK) in schools and that is how calibre is spelled in English (UK). For more details on the choice of the name click here.

Ok enough with the speeches. Let's get to the exciting stuff. A comprehensive list of features added since 0.9.0 is here. Lets look at some of them in detail.
A lot more to read with screenshots in Kovad Goyal's announcement.
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