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Calibre Portable was designed to be a e-book library management application.
Calibre Portable is meant to be a complete e-library solution for everyone. The application includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as e-book reader sync features.
Here are some key features of "Calibre Portable":
Library Management:
· Calibre Portable is primarily a ebook cataloging program. It stores your ebook files in a database along with easily editable metadata describing each book. It 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 Portable support sorting the books in its database by:
· Title
· Author
· Date
· Publisher
· Rating
· Size (Max size of all formats)
It also supports extra metadata fields that can be searched on:
· Series: The series that a book belongs to
· Comments: A general purpose field that can be used to describe the book, add notes on it, etc.
· Tags: A flexible system to categorize books. You can tag any book with any custom tag to indicate subject, read status, category, etc.
· The database view also supports filtering by searching on the metadata. You can perform advanced searching on individual metadata fields by clicking the advanced search button to the left of the search bar.
· The books in the database can be saved to disk using the "Save to disk" button. All selected books are saved in a folder structure organized by Author and Title.
· You can fetch metadata for a book based on its ISBN number or its title / author, instead of manually entering the metadata. You can also fetch a co ver image based on the ISBN number.
Format Conversion:
· Calibre Portable supports conversion from (HTML, LIT, RTF, TXT, PDF(simple text+few images)) to the SONY ebook reader format LRF. An graphical interface to the conversion software can be accessed by clicking the "Convert E-books" button.
· The command line access is via the command any2lrf. The conversion is very powerful and supports advanced typesetting features like tables, dropcaps, inline images, embedded fonts, etc. Full documentation of the features of the conversion software can be found at Conversion to LRF.
Syncing to E-reader Devices:
· Calibre Portable has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for the SONY PRS 500/505. Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the library and the creation of collections on the device based on the tags define d in the library view. If an book has more than one format available, Calibre Portable automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device.
Fetching News:
Calibre Portable can automatically fetch news from a number of websites, format the news into a ebook and upload to a connected device. At the moment there is support for generating LRF ebooks. Supported news sites are:
· Newsweek
· New York Times
· The BBC
· The Economist
· The news fetching subsystem has a modular design, which makes it easy to add support for more sites. If you are interested in adding support for a site, read the User Manual. Once you have created a recipe, consider sharing it with other users by attaching it to User Recipes.
Viewing E-books:
· Calibre Portable has an inbuilt viewer that can display LRF format files, so you can look over a recent conversion before uploading to the rea der. It supports all the features of the LRF format, except dropcaps.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Features:
· E-book viewer: Add a button to the toolbar to switch themes easily
· When downloading metadata for many books, if some of them fail, add an option to the downloaded message to show the failed books in the main book list, so that they can be individually processed easily
· Remember last used window size of the conversion dialogs.
· Kindle driver: Turn on sending of azw3 files to kindles by default, since the KK now has azw3 support
· Conversion: Add support for CSS pseudo classes :hover, :link, :visited, :first-line, :focus, :active, :first-letter
· Wireless device driver: Make the default save template not use fold ers
Bug Fixes:
· Fix a regression in th previous release that broke sending of books to the second SD card in SONY readers
· Fix a memory leak when scanning for devices in windows
· Ebook-viewer: When displaying mathematics, reflow equations that dont fit on a single line
· Catalogs: Do not mark the AZW3 catalog as a periodical, as most Kindle devices cannot handle...
Via: Calibre Portable 0.8.69
