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Calibre 0.7.43 now available – adds features, fixes bugs, also makes julienne fries

January 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · software news

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management app that was developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a bunchaton of features, including: ebook conversion library management e-reader support news downloading content server (for accessing your library over the web) Calibre

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Calibre 0.7.42 now available – adds support for Acer Lumiread, Archos 101

January 21st, 2011 · No Comments · software news

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management app that was developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a bunchaton of features, including: ebook conversion library management e-reader support news downloading content server (for accessing your library over the web) Calibre

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calibre 0.7.39 now available, includes several bug fixes

January 14th, 2011 · No Comments · software news

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management app that was developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a bunchaton of features, including: ebook conversion library management e-reader support news downloading content server (for accessing your library over the web) Calibre

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Calibre 0.7.28 now available – adds support for Nook Color

November 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Since Kovid does weekly updates for calibre I don’t usually announce them. But today’s update caught my eye. As always, calibre is an open source tool for converting ebooks and transferring them to e-readers. You can find out more here: http://calibre-ebook.com/ New Features Update the version of the grahical toolkit (Qt 4.7.1) used in the [...]

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Calibre 0.7.21 now available

October 1st, 2010 · No Comments · software news

Do you know what amazes me about Kovid? The way he adds support for obscure devices to calibre. Just this week he added support for the Jetbook Mini, and it hasn’t even shipped yet. The mind boggles. FYI: calibre is an open source tool designed to help you transfer ebooks to almost any e-reader. It [...]

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Calibre 0.7.19 now available for download

September 17th, 2010 · No Comments · software news

Calibre is an open source tool that supports converting ebooks and transferring ebooks to e-readers. Quite a few e-readers and ebook formats are supported. You can download it here: calibre-ebook.com New Features Drivers for the SONY PRS-350/PRS-650 and the Sovos E-reader The ability to perform search and replace via regular expressions in the Bulk Edit [...]

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Calibre 0.7.16 now available, adds K3 support

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · software news

New Features Driver for the Kindle 3 Users can now customize what actions appear in the toolbar and context menus via Preferences->Interface->Toolbars Draw a thin broder around the cover in the edit metadata dialog. Create (almost) all temporary files in a subdirectory so as not to clutter up temp directory FB2 Output: Add option to [...]

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Create free blog subscriptions on the Kindle 3 using Wi-Fi & calibre

August 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

by Chris Walters One of the benefits of having Wi-Fi on the latest Kindle model is you can use the feature to send yourself documents without incurring a fee: “If you transfer personal documents to your Kindle via Wi-Fi there is no delivery fee. If you transfer personal documents to your Kindle via 3G while [...]

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Kovid Goyal (creator of calibre) interviewed on a podcast

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · interview, podcast

UK Ubuntu just posted a podcast yesterday where they interviewed Kovid Goyal.  It was interesting. I was under the impression that he was a  physics professor (now that he had his PhD). No, he works on calibre full time. You can listen to or download the podcast in multiple formats. I selected Play in a [...]

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Calibre 7.9 now available

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · software news

You can download calibre here: http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net FYI, calibre is a free ebook management & conversion tool. Mot people think it’s the best on the market. New Features Support for the MiBuk New unified toolbar Device drivers: Add option to allow calibre to automatically manage metadata on the device in Preferences->Add/Save->Sending to device BibTeX output for [...]

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