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.
v3.7 [Aug 25, 2017]
- New: Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new 'vl:' prefix.
- New: Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download buttons.
- New: Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size from 150px to 105px.
- New: Narrow layout: Fix wasted space to the left of the comments in the Book details panel.
- Server: Fix downloading files via the list of formats not working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS.
- Browser viewer: Fix controls help overlay not being displayed the first time the viewer is used.
- MOBI Output: Fix a regression causing a crash for some input documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties.
- DOCX Input: Fix framed lists being rendered with the frame inside the bullets instead of outside it.
- Fix a regression that could cause conversion to crash when using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX.
- Conversion: Fix remove first image option not working for comic input with the disable comic processing option.
- Server: Fix tooltip not working in the cover grid view.
- Workaround for Qt bug that prevented using the shift and ctrl keys with the touchscreen.
- Fix libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather than just library name.
- Server: Allow hyphens in user names.
- calibredb.exe: Fix misleading error message when connecting to a server with incorrect username or password.
- New news sources: Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks by fenuks, IDPixel and The Insider by bugmen00t.
- Improved news sources: Asian review of Books, Financial Times, National Post, and Go Comics.
