calibre An e-book library management application
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An e-book library management application calibre is a e-book library management application. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works on Linux, OSX 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.calibre 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 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 commandline access is via the command any2lrf. The conversion is very powerful and supports advanced typesetting features like tables, dropcaps, inline images, embedded fonts, etc.calibre 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 defined in the library view. If an book has more than one format available, calibre automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device.calibre 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.calibre has an inbuilt viewer that can display LRF format files, so you can look over a recent conversion before uploading to the reader. It supports all the features of the LRF format, except dropcaps.Requirements:· python· setuptools · Python Imaging Library· libusb· Qt· PyQt· mechanize for python· ImageMagick· xdg-utils· dbus-python· convertlit· lxml· genshi· help2man· HALINSTALLATION:As root, run the installer. What's New in This Release: · Fix #2300 (Epub multilevel TOC output flawed.) · Updated recipes for Telepolis. The news and articles have now been split into two separate recipes, for better formatting. · Fix #1994 (Save to disk or send to device changes author sort order) · New recipe for zaobao.com by Pu Bo · New recipes for various computing blogs by Darko Miletic · Fix bug in calibre content server that would cause it to not work if yur library has books with blank author fields · Implement #2325 ('Fetch All News Now' Option) · MOBI Output:Fix bug that cause MOBI conversion to sometimes fail when linking to an external stylesheet · MOBI Input: Fix reading of tags stored in metadata in MOBI files · Update odfpy (used to conver Open Office? documents) · PDF Input: calibre now supports conversion of PDF version > 1.5 as well

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