A new important Calibre version is available for download

Oct 17, 2014 07:50 GMT  ·  By

Calibre, a powerful and complex eBook viewer, editor, and converter, has been updated again by its developer and a number of new features have been added to the application.

It's been a couple of weeks since the previous update, so the developer had more than enough time to make some important changes and improvements to the application. Users will find that there are a host of new features now available, but some smaller issues and other bugs have been corrected as well.

Calibre is a very complex piece of software and it comes bundled with hundreds of options. Most of the features already implemented are quite stable and they rarely require any work, but some of them do get fixes from time to time. Many of the changes that you see in each edition of the application are made at the suggestion of the community, which plays a very active role in this project.

Some new additions for Calibre

The Catalog in this application is one of the central components. There are many other parts of Calibre that are rarely employed by users, but the Catalog is always in use, so any changes made to it will have a visible effect. "Changing the order of fields in the generated CSV catalog by using drag and drop to re-arrange the fields in the create catalog dialog is now allowed," notes the developer in the announcement.

A number of other modifications have been made, which should enhance the usability of Calibre. For example, when users are editing metadata for multiple files at once, they have to confirm the editing process before it's over, the search results can now be highlighted with a simple key combination, it's now possible to toggle the Table of Contents via the keyboard, and changes have been made to accommodate the upcoming Kobo firmware.

The developer also explains that Calibre is now able to download metadata from Amazon again (some changes to the website have been taken into consideration), looking up words in the dictionary is now working better, and some of the news sources have been updated.

Calibre doesn’t have any binary files for users, but the dev has put together a simple installation method that should work on any Linux distribution and all you have to do is to paste a long command (from the download section) into the terminal.

More details about this latest release can be found on the official website. You can also download the Calibre 2.6.0 source package from Softpedia, if you want to compile it yourself.