Version 2.3 (Released 11 September 2014) of Calibre licensed under the GNU GPL v.3 for Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (x86).
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
The calibre portable build can be run on any windows computer running at least Windows Vista. It is self contained, your calibre libraries and settings are all kept together in one place.
To use, just run the portable installer and select the location where you would like the "Calibre Portable" folder. To launch calibre, double click the "calibre-portable.exe" program inside the Calibre Portable folder.
Official site: calibre-ebook.com
Changes in 2.3
New Features
- Cover Grid: Dynamically adjust the size of the in memory cover thumbnail cache based on the window size to ensure flicker free rendering even on very large screens.
- Template tester: Remember last used template
- Get Books: When downloading books show a popup message telling the user that the books will be added to the calibre library automatically, to help new users understand what is happening. The popup message can be disabled.
- E-book viewer: Try to detect when a chapter has a page break before the start of the chapter's text resulting in a leading blank page and override the page break.
Bug Fixes
- Edit metadata dialog: Fix the author sort field not being marked red initially when the author sort does not match the author due to a Qt 5 behavior change.
- OS X: Fix restarting of calibre not working if calibre.app is placed in a location with spaces in the path
- Fix regression that caused calibre running in debug mode on OS X to not have a menubar or dock icon
- Get Books: Fix downloading ebooks from Project Gutenberg via the builtin browser not working because of changes to the Project Gutenberg website.
- Get Books: Update Gutenberg plugin for changes to the Project Gutenberg website.
Improved news sources
- Strategy+Business
- Dawn
- American Thinker
- Anchorage Daily News
- Financial Times