Portable Calibre 8.0.0 Multilingual
Effortlessly keep your e-book library thoroughly organized with the help of this efficient and straightforward software solution. Calibre Portable is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software.
It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works on Linux, OSX and Windows. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes, library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as e-book reader sync features.
One of the most significant features of Calibre Portable is its ability to handle a wide variety of e-book formats. The software supports the most common formats like EPUB, MOBI, and PDF, as well as some less commonly used formats such as AZW, LRF, and PDB. This means that whether you have purchased your e-books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other online bookstore, Calibre can manage them all.
In terms of organizing your e-book library, Calibre Portable has a range of capabilities. You can add tags, comments, ratings, and even custom metadata to each book. This helps you to quickly find the books you want to read based on different criteria such as genre, author, publication date, or any other specific information you choose to add.
Calibre’s conversion feature is one of its biggest strengths. With just a few clicks, you can convert your e-books into different formats, making it easy to read them on different devices. For example, if you have an EPUB file but want to read it on a Kindle device, you can easily convert it to MOBI format using Calibre. Similarly, if you have a PDF file that you want to read on your smartphone, you can convert it to EPUB format for easier reading.
Another useful feature of Calibre is its ability to download news articles and convert them into e-book format. This means that you can keep up with your favorite news sources without having to visit their websites every day. Calibre can automatically download articles from websites like The New York Times, The Guardian, and BBC News and convert them into an e-book format for easy reading.
Calibre is also a great tool for authors and publishers. You can use it to create your own e-books in various formats, including EPUB, MOBI, and PDF. The software includes a built-in editor that allows you to add images, hyperlinks, and other interactive elements to your e-book. Once your e-book is ready, you can use Calibre to upload it to online stores like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing or Apple iBooks.
Calibre’s user interface is simple and easy to navigate. The main screen displays all of your e-books in a list view, allowing you to quickly browse through them. You can also switch to a cover view if you prefer to see book covers instead. The software’s search function is powerful and allows you to find books based on various criteria like title, author, tags, and even custom metadata fields.
In terms of customization, Calibre has a range of options. You can change the font size, font type, and line spacing to make reading more comfortable. There are also different reading modes such as day mode and night mode, which adjust the background color and text color to reduce eye strain.
Overall, Calibre Portable is an essential tool for anyone who loves to read e-books. Its ability to handle multiple formats, organize e-books, and convert them into different formats makes it a must-have for any e-book enthusiast. Whether you have a large collection of e-books or just a few, Calibre will help you manage them all with ease.
Calibre Portable Release Notes:
New features
- Much improved Kobo support
calibre can now natively edit, view and convert KEPUB format files used by the Kobo. It also automatically converts EPUB to KEPUB when sending books to Kobo devices (can be configured by right clicking the kobo icon in calibre).
- Connect to folder: Allow connecting a specific device
calibre can now connect to a folder and treat it as though it is a USBMS based device. This is useful particularly on Chromebooks where USB devices appear as folders rather than actual devices.
- When completing names for fields that contain hierarchical data in prefix mode match prefixes after every period
- ToC editor: Allow moving of multiple selected items in the Table of Contents
- macOS: The calibre application icons in the dock are now displayed in a white frame to follow Apple’s current recommended icon style
- Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware on Tolino devices
- Book details: Add option in to suppress author search links
Bug fixes
- Fix a regression that broke tabbing to edit cells in the book list when some columns have been hidden or re-ordered
- Catalog generation: Allow using templates that access the database for notes
- Fix a bug when renaming authors to a name with commas in it
- Full text search: Also index text in ZIP and RAR archives as these can be viewed by the calibre viewer
- E-book viewer: Fix Table of Contents current entry tracking not working for some books
- When reading metadata from HTML also recognize name=”subject” meta tags as calibre tags
- E-book viewer: Fix viewer not closing on the interrupt signal
- Edit book: Download external resources: Fix incorrect filename if the server returns a generic Content-Type header
- Metadata download: Publisher/series transform rules: Fix values with commas in them not working
Improved news sources
- Linux Weekly News
- Spectator
- Economist
- Granta
- Hindu
- 1843
- Barrons
- Frontline
- Zaobao
- Strange Horizons
