calibre is an open source Mac utility for managing your e-books. With its help, you can read and convert your favorite e-books, fetch metadata for any of your electronic books, download the latest news articles, and so much more.
The application works with a wide variety of e-book formats, provides you with a feature-rich editor, and helps you find and download e-books from the web. You can also use this program to keep track of the latest news. Simply subscribe to a RSS feed and the app will automatically download the news to your Mac.
Another advantage is the fact that the utility comes with an efficient e-book converter. This built-in tool works fast, preserves the quality of the original files, and is very simple to handle.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of this app's design. It's not as intuitive as other Mac applications, with dozens of screens each with a certain amount of panels. You might need to waste a while to find the app panel or the setting you need. Not to mention, the application doesn't bring you a built-in help manual. So, if it's the first time you work with this type of utility, you should first check the app's homepage and read the instructions before using this program on your Mac.
Still, this application comes without a price and might prove to be of good use if you work with e-books often.
v2.1 [Aug 29, 2014]
- New Feature: Metadata review dialog: Automatically insert series number when selecting a series from the completion dropdown. Also if the user does not specify a series number, use 1 as the default, instead of not setting the series.
- Fixed Bug: Fix regression that broke error reporting for save to disk for books that contain no formats.
- Fixed Bug: Metadata download: Fix metadata download not working for titles that contain a apostrophes in languages other than English.
- Fixed Bug: Fix deleting a book from both the library and the device causing the next selected book to be incorrect, when the library is sorted by the On Device column.
- Fixed Bug: FB2 Output: Fix generation of FB2 sections based on a multi-level Table of Contents in the input document.
- Fixed Bug: Tolino Shine driver: Fix option to swap main memory and SD card not working on OS X.
- Fixed Bug: FB2 Input: Workaround for broken FB2 files produced by convertonlinefree.com.
- Fixed Bug: OS X: Workaround for OS X installs that have incorrect permissions set on their home directories. calibre will now no longer refuse to start on such machines.
- Fixed Bug: MOBI Input: Dont crash on corrupted JPG images.
- Fixed Bug: Fix column icons not displaying for custom comments type columns.
- Fixed Bug: Metadata review dialog: Show a confirmation for the 'Reject all remaining' button.
