Category: Calibre
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Calibre 7.22 Launches with Enhanced eReader Support and Innovative Restart Feature
Calibre 7.22 has been released, continuing to establish itself as a leading open-source ebook manager, praised for its extensive features and cross-platform compatibility. This release introduces a notable enhancement for its eBook viewer: users can now adjust the position of the control bar while using the ‘Read Aloud’ feature to avoid obstructing text, placing it…
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Calibre 7.2.1 Update: Enhancements to Read Aloud Features and New Audio Overlay
Calibre, the popular ebook management tool, has released version 7.2.1, introducing a significant update that enhances its "read aloud" feature. This functionality allows a computer voice to read text from ePUB books. The new version includes an exciting addition: a tool for creating an audio overlay in ePUB files, enabling users to listen with sentence…
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Calibre eBook Manager Unveils Next-Generation PDF Conversion Engine
The open source ebook management tool Calibre has released a new version. The latest version, Calibre 7.20, comes equipped with an innovative PDF input engine designed for converting PDF files into various ebook formats like EPUB or MOBI. This new engine can now automatically detect headers and footers through document analysis. Users who preferred the…
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Calibre 7.20 Launches with Enhanced PDF Input Engine and New Tolino Shine 5 Firmware Support
Today, Kovid Goyal announced the release of Calibre 7.20, the latest version of this free, open-source, and cross-platform ebook management software compatible with Linux, macOS, and Windows. Key features of Calibre 7.20 include a new default dedicated PDF Input engine that can automatically detect and remove headers and footers through document analysis. The previous PDF…
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Quick Tip: Displaying eBook Thumbnails in Nautilus File Manager
I recently rediscovered my Amazon Kindle (a geriatric model from 2012, nothing fancy) and figured, as it still works, I’ll use it, and set about downloading freely available EPUBs of classic (and not-so-classic – I’m a pulpy-kinda guy) literature. They say never judge a book by its cover – but it is useful to be…
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Exciting Update: Calibre eBook App Now Features Audio ePubs and Custom Notes Support
If Calibre, the well-known open-source ebook manager, could be thought of as a book, it would undoubtedly continually top the bestseller lists due to its comprehensive array of features. The most recent release, Calibre 7, expands this array of features even further. This new update introduces a variety of novel functionalities to the pre-existing features…
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Exploring Calibre 7.0 E-Book Manager: A Look at the New Notes Feature and Audio EPUBs Support
Calibre’s developer Kovid Goyal publicized the release of Calibre 7.0, the most recent stable version and a significant update to this potent, open-source, and cross-platform e-book management software. More than a year after Calibre 6.0, Calibre 7.0 comes with the functionality to save notes, which include links, images and rich text formating for authors, series,…