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Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development

Posted by timothy on from the that-is-some-conservative-numbering dept.

Calibre is a feature-laden, open source e-book manager; many readers mentioned in light of the recently posted news about Barnes & Noble's Nook that they use Calibre to deal with their reading material. Reader Trashcan Romeo writes with some news on its new 1.0 release, summing it up thus: "The new version of the premier e-book management application boasts a completely re-written database backend and PDF output engine as well a new book-cover grid view."

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  1. Thanks Kovid! by demonlapin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget to give the man some money. He updates Calibre frequently - sometimes more than once a week - and doesn't charge a nickel.

    1. Re:Thanks Kovid! by Colonel+Korn · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So what? Nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to work on it.

      Sorry to feed the troll, but this one's amusing. I enjoy the implication that only work performed at the barrel of a firearm should be rewarded.

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      "I zero-index my hamsters" - Willtor (147206)
    2. Re:Thanks Kovid! by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 5, Funny

      He's analyzed the economic climate and has a very forward looking view of employment conditions in the near future.

  2. Awesome program by xQuarkDS9x · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been using this program for over a year first in Windows XP and now in Lubuntu and it's really really good to manage books on my Kindle Paperwhite. There's even a quality check plugin that has an option titled "Fix ASIN for Kindle Fire" which fixes it so that the book cover actually shows up on my paperwhite instead of a generic one. :)

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  3. Awesome! by Falkentyne · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've used Calibre for awhile now and it's an impressive piece of software. I've been meaning to for awhile but I finally went ahead and made a donation.

    Full disclosure: I'm drunk and I'm always more generous when I'm drunk.

    Also, you should see The World's End - great movie.

  4. Re:pdf-epub by CaptQuark · · Score: 5, Informative

    I also tried converting from PDF to EPUB. Sometimes the PDF isn't in a good condition and I get a very poor EPUB. If that happens, I convert PDF -> RTF, clean up and spell check in MS Word, then RTF -> EPUB.

    This has let me fix over-large graphics, incorrect page breaks, constant spelling problems from the OCR, and font problems.

    ~~

  5. Re:Does it do custom folders? by radarskiy · · Score: 5, Informative

    "unless you want to take the time to manually change everything back."

    Preferences -> Saving Books to Disk -> Save template. The default is {author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors}
    Select All
    Save to disk

    I don't know the command line equivalent off the top of my head

  6. Re:pdf-epub by XcepticZP · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, but you can tell it to size the pdf pages exactly to the size of your device's screen. So then the pdf fits perfectly onto the device, and there is no need to alter the flow of the text due to the width of the device.

  7. Re:terrible UI by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    UI is confusing, to say the least. But that's not my issue with it, it's UNBELIEVABLY slow to click around.

    Addressing that second point first: I've been using Calibre for a couple of years, and the new 1.0 release is *much* faster than any of the earlier versions.

    As to the "confusing UI", I just don't see how. It seems as straightforward as it can possibly be, unless there's some API I haven't heard about that somehow divines your intentions by reading your subconscious brainwaves.