calibre can also talk to a few e-book reader devices. calibre can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. calibre can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading.

calibre is primarily a ebook cataloging program. calibre stores your ebook files in a database along with easily editable metadata describing each book.

calibre is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in several formats.

calibre is developed in pure Python and it is cross platform, running on OS X, Linux, and Windows.

Here are some key features of "calibre":

· Library Management.
· Format Conversion.
· Syncing to E-reader Devices.
· Fetching News.
· Viewing E-books.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New Features:
· Driver for the Irex DR 800
· Driver for the Booq e-book reader
· Allow automatic series increment algorithm to be tweaked by editing the config file tweaks.py
· Various improvements to the catlog generation. Larger thumbnails in EPUB output and better series sorting. Better handling of html markup in the comments.
· MOBI Output: Make font used for generated masthead images user customizable.

Bug Fixes:
· E-book viewer: Make bookmarking (and remebering last open position more robust). For linuxsource installs, you must have Qt 4.6
· Fix conversion/import of HTML files with very long href links on windows
· Don't read metadata from filenames for download news, even if the user has the read metadata from filename option set
· Don't allow leading or trailing space in tags and series. Also normalize all internal spaces to a single space
· E-book viewer: Toolbars remember their position
· Fix year being repeated when editing date in main library screen on windows
· New download: Fix downloading of images from URLs with an ampersand in them
· Linux source install: unbundle cssutils, it is now an external dependancy
· MOBI metadata: Fix regression that broke setting of titles in some MOBI files
· EPUB metadata: Extract the cover image from the html it is embededd in if possible, instead of rendering the html. Removes the white margins on covers and speeds up cover extraction
· Fix regression in PDB output
· News download: Remove tags automatically
· Searching on device: Ignore unicode errors

New news sources:
· Courier Press by Krittika Goyal
· zive.sk and iliterature.cz by Abelturd
· El Comerico, Digital Spy UK, Gizmodo, News Straits Times, Read It Later, TidBits by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources:
· Jerusalem Post
· Clarin
· La Nacion
· Harvard Business Review
· People US Mashup
· The New Republic
· Pagina 12
· Discover Magazine
· Metro Montreal