calibre 0.9.8 - Complete e-library management system.. (Free)

calibre 0.9.8 - Complete e-library management system.. (Free): "

calibre is a one-stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Version 0.9.8:

New Features

• Add an option to show the cover size in the book details panel on the right. Option is in Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details
  
• Kobo driver: Add support for firmware 2.2. Also add an option to send series information to the device.
  
• Catalogs: Allow using custom columns as the source for Genres when generating catalogs
  
• When the user asks calibre to convert a book, show a small animation to make highlight that the convert job has been queued to run in the background
  
• Add support for the notification center in OS X 10.8
  
• calibredb: Add an option to specify the cover to use when adding books with calibredb add.
  
• EPUB Input: Add support for EPUB files with broken central directory records *and* data descriptors
  
• Comic metadata: Support reading metadata from cbr files. Also read the comments and published date info from the metadata.
  
• Speed up processing of RAR and CBR files by avoiding an extra file copy
  
• Add driver for Nexus 10 on linux.

Bug Fixes

• KF8 Input: Handle invalid KF8 files with links pointing to non-existent locations and incorrect values in the div table.
  
• Viewer: Fix handling of empty self closing tags.
  
• Fix use of {formats} in save to disk templates. Fix some formatter functions causing plugboards to not validate.
  
• Fix calibre quitting when minimized to system tray and an update available message is shown and then closed.
  
• Viewer: Fix vertical margin at the top of the first page of a chapter incorrect in a certain rare circumstance (first child of body being an empty paragraph).
  
• E-book viewer: Fix bug that caused the default language for hyphenation to be ignored for books that do not specify a language

Improved news sources

• Pro Physik
  
• Aachener Nachrichten
  
• Science News

Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later, Intel 32, Intel 64

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)