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.
v2.70 [Oct 20, 2016]
- New Feature: Edit Book: Add a tool to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.) that are not included in the book.
- New Feature: Make custom columns available in the Alter Tag Browser->Manage categories sub menu.
- Bug fix: Conversion - Fix incorrect resolution of references to resources in HTML files that exist in a folder level above the OPF file. This could lead to styles being incorrectly processed in such HTML files.
- Bug fix: Get Books - Update the amazon store plugins for website changes.
- Bug fix: Update ozon.ru metadata download plugin to fix searching for books by ISBN.
- Bug fix: Edit Book - Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the preferences dialog for changing color schemes.
- Bug fix: Edit Book - Better error message when user tries to open a Check Book item that refers to a file that has been deleted since the last time Check Book was run.
- New news sources: Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen.
- Improved news sources: Wired, Ambito, InfoWorld, Instapaper, San Jose Mercury News, South China Morning Post, Journal Gazette, JPost, Las Vegas Review, Marietta Daily Journal, DziennikBaltycki, biweekly, dwutygodnik, GRY Online, ESO, TVN24, and many more.
