New Features Support for reading Amazon's new KF8 format Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the font size used in the book details panel Allow specifying a list of file types to exclude when automatically adding files from a folder Show ratings in the book details panel as stars. Also allow the user to change the alignment of the ratings column in the main books list. No longer display the stars in blue, instead their color can be customized via the column coloring rules, like any other column When setting metadata in EPUB ensure that the tag has its name attribute first. Needed...

New Features Driver for Sony Experia Play 4G News download system: Allow use of __future__ in recipes, and do not change line numbers of code in the recipe when compiling it Use the My Documents folder as the default location for the Calibre Library folder on first start in windows Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the order in which categories appear in the Tag Browser Tag Browser: Add an entry to the right click menu to quickly delete tags Amazon metadata download: Try to scrape series information from the amazon details page. Note that currently very few books have series info available. Often the...

calibre 0.8.40: New Features Amazon metadata download: Support the new 'Book Description' section that Amazon publishes for some books. Also workaround the amazon US servers occasionally returning broken markup leading to calibre not finding any matches for books on Amazon. Kindle driver: Add an option to allow using page counts stored in a custom column. Go to Preferences->Plugins and customize the Kindle driver, to tell it to use a custom column to get page count data. Template language: Add a current_library_name() function that can be used to return the name of the currently opened library in calibre Driver for Xperia Neo and PocketBook A10 Bug Fixes Fix...

New Features Auto-adding: Add an option to check for duplicates when auto adding. Content server: Export a second record via mDNS that points to the full OPDS feed in addition to the one pointing to the Stanza feed. The new record is of type _calibre._tcp. Allow specifying a set of categories that are not partitioned even if they contain a large number of items in the Tag Browser. Preference is available under Look & Feel->Tag Browser Allow setting a URL prefix for the content server that run embedded in the calibre GUI as well. Allow output of identifiers data in CSV/XML/BiBTeX catalogs Driver for Motorola Droid...

New Features Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a specified folder. Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page break before a or tag if it is immediately preceded by another or tag. Driver for EZReader T730 and Pint-of-View PlayTab Pro Bug Fixes Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added via Preferences->Toolbars. Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages() but not get_browser(). Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store Content server: Fix metadata not...

New Features Allow calibre to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on windows. Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins Add a restart calibre button to the warning dialog that pops up after changing some preference that requires a restart Bug Fixes Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the actual file from the disk Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not properly refresh the format information in the GUI E-book viewer: Preserve...

Dear Author has a great tutorial for Calibre users.  Here's a snippet: Intro Now that you have your Calibre database set up just the way you like it, you need to figure out how to get the books from your computer to your device.  You can use the tethered or the over the air (untethered) method. Tethered Tethered means to physically attach your device to your computer using the USB cord.  Calibre recognizes almost every mainstream device from the Kobo, Sony, nook, Kindle, Cybook, and the iOS devices. Send to Device Once you plugin the device, you should see a “Send to Device” icon on the...

New Features Decrease startup time for large libraries with at least one composite custom column by reading format info on demand When automatically deleting news older than x days, from the calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News by the user. Driver for Infibeam Pi 2 Add a Tag Editor for tags like custom columns to the edit metadata dialog Bug Fixes E-book viewer: Fix regression in 0.8.35 that caused viewer to raise an error on books that did not define a language Content server: Fix grouping for...

New Features Metadata plugboards: Allow creation of plugboards for email delivery. Tweak EPUB: Also allow tweaking of HTMLZ files (when both EPUB and HTMLZ are present, EPUB is preferred, this can be changed via Preferences->Tweaks). TXT Input: Support direct conversion of files with extensions .md, .markdown and .textile. E-book viewer: Speed up the optional hyphenation algorithm by upgrading the hyphenator library calibre uses Drivers for PocketBook 611, Motorola Razr Droid and Onyx Boox i62 Bug Fixes MOBI Output: When converting a paragraph that contains only a non-breaking space into a line break, ignore paragraphs with height less than 2pt. MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that specify anchor point...

Dear Author has an excellent tutorial for those getting acquainted with Calibre.  Here's a snippet from the beginning: I am a huge fan of the free open source software written by Kovid called Calibre.  It is an organization, management, conversion tool for both print and digital books.  I’ve had several people email me asking what the best set up is for Calibre along with what plugins that...

calibre 0.8.34: New Features Apple driver: Set the year field in iTunes based on the published date in calibre. EPUB Input: When converting a file that has entries in the manifest that do no exist, remove them, instead of aborting the conversion. Kindle driver: Ensure page counts are correctly sent to the device when connecting to Kindle 4/Touch. Allow user to set the number of recently viewed books shown in the dropdown menu of the view button, via a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks. Bug Fixes Fix regression in 0.8.33 that caused calibre to crash when starting the Content Server, if the port the content server is trying to...

New Features LIT Input: Switch to non-recursive algorithm, to allow conversion of files with deeply nested markup. Content server: Do not show the original_* formats in the mobile interface. Also upgrade to the latest CherryPy release. E-book viewer: Add option in viewer preferences to control how much the font size is changed when you click the make fonts bigger/smaller buttons. E-book viewer: Allow changing font size via Ctrl+Mouse wheel Kobo driver: Hide previews and recommendations from the book list. You can customize the Kobo plugin if you would like to see them via Preferences->Plugins Bug Fixes Copy to library: Fix title sort not being copied PDF Output: Add...