In nowadays, eBook reading has also become a fashionable life, there is no wonder that we can see more and more people carrying a portable device such as ipad, ipod thouch, kindle fire etc to read book on the go. Among much e-readers, you must be at a loss to choose an ideal tool to read ebook.

According to the official survey, indeed, Calibre is a very decent choice for us to read ebook. It is intended to be an ebook organization tool. You can organize your books by author, title, series, publisher, personal tags, and personal ratings.

It doesn’t matter if you never plan to convert your books into any other format, such as convert html to epub. Pdf to epub etc. This program can serve a library tracking system. You can make notes about each read, rate the book, and add identifying tags that can be searched later. It’s beyond easy to use this program for simply managing your ebook reading. Simply drag and drop all your files onto the Calibre window. Calibre will import the files and fill in the information in the “metadata” fields as best as it can. Your files can even be zipped or rar’ed and Calibre will read the files inside.

Recently, this powerful program has updated in some ways. The following is the details.

New Features

1.Template language: Speedup evaluation of general program mode templates by pre-compiling them to python. If you experience errors with this optimization, you can turn it off via Preferences->Tweaks. Also other miscellaneous optimizations in evaluating templates with composite columns.
MOBI Output: Add an option to not convert all images to JPEG when creating MOBI files. For maximum compatibility of the produced MOBI files, do not use this option.
Closes tickets: 954025 (Related link: mobi to epub)
2.Add iPad3 Output Profile

Bug Fixes

KF8 Input: Add support for KF8 files with obfuscated embedded fonts
Closes tickets: 953260

Make the stars in the book list a little larger on windows >= vista

Revised periodical Section layout, for touchscreen devices resolving iBooks problem with tables spanning multiple pages

Read dc:contributor metadata from MOBI file. (Related link:convert mobi to epub mac)

KF8 Input: Recognize OpenType embedded fonts as well.

Fix regression in 0.8.41 that caused file:/// URLs to stop working in the news download system on windows. When setting metadata in MOBI files fix cover not being updated if the mobi file has its first image record as the cover.

Fix column coloring rules based on the size column not working；

The best e-book fans friend- Calibre ebook reader

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