Calibre is a free and open-source e-book management software that allows users to manage their e-books, convert between different e-book formats, and sync e-books with various devices. It was first released in 2006 and has since become one of the most popular e-book management tools available.

One of the most notable features of Calibre is its ability to organize e-books into different categories and add tags, making it easy to search and locate specific books. It also allows users to edit the metadata of their e-books, including the title, author, and cover image, and can even download missing metadata from online sources.

Calibre also provides a powerful e-book conversion tool, allowing users to convert e-books from one format to another, such as from EPUB to MOBI, or from PDF to EPUB. This is particularly useful for those who want to read e-books on different devices that may not support the same file format.

In addition, Calibre supports a wide range of e-book readers, including Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Kobo e-readers, and can automatically sync e-books with these devices. It can also connect to online e-book stores, such as Amazon and Google Books, allowing users to browse and purchase e-books directly from within the software.

Calibre is an essential tool for anyone who reads and manages e-books. Its powerful features and easy-to-use interface make it a must-have for anyone looking to organize, convert, and sync their e-book library.

Key Features:

• Library management system to organize e-book collection
• Format conversion for compatibility with different devices
• Built-in editor to modify e-book metadata and table of contents
• E-book viewer with customization options
• Integrated web browser for downloading e-books
• Synchronization options for keeping e-book collection up-to-date across devices
• Extensible with plugins to add additional features and functionality.

New Features

• Edit metadata in bulk dialog: Allow configuring the types of generated covers.

  Closes tickets: 1559257

• E-book viewer: Make the detection of note boundaries for popup footnotes a little more robust
• E-book viewer: Add options to control the amount the mouse wheel and arrow keys scroll by in flow mode
• When running the content server do not hide the main calibre window during shutdown until the content server has stopped. Show a shutting down message in the window so that the user knows what is happening.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for empty links
• DOCX Input: When the document has a Table of Contents created using the Word Table of Contents tool, keep a reference to it in the metadata. This is useful when converting to old style MOBI and you want to precisely control placement of the ToC.

  Closes tickets: 1556983

Bug Fixes

• Fix auto-mounting of some types of devices not working on FreeBSD
• calibredb add: Fix the --cover option not working if the book being added has its own cover.

  Closes tickets: 1562507

• E-book viewer: Fix mathematics being typeset at too small a font size on windows
• PDF Output: Fix occasional blank pages erroneously inserted in the text (at the end of an internal html file).

  Closes tickets: 1559855

• Book details panel: Fix url:file:// identifiers not becoming links
• Fix fetch news dialog not rendering properly on HiDPI screens
• Fix a hard to trigger crash introduced in the previous release when using the conversion dialog

  Closes tickets: 1557147