Version 2.6 (Released 17 October 2014) of Calibre for Linux (x86).
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
Calibre is licensed under the GNU GPL3.
Official site: calibre-ebook.com
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Changes in 2.6
New Features
- Catalogs: CSV Output: Allow changing the order of fields in the generated CSV catalog by using drag and drop to re-arrange the fields in the create catalog dialog.
- Edit metadata dialog: When editing metadata individually for multiple books, popup a confirmation if the user clicks OK before finishing the editing of all the books.
- Allow configuring a keyboard shortcut to toggle highlighting of search results via Preferences->Keyboard (under Miscellaneous).
- Edit Book: Saved searches window: Remember the last used values for where to search and search direction
- E-book viewer: Allow right clicking on the toolbar buttons to popup the optional menus, useful when using the viewer on a touch screen.
- E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle the Table of Contents [Ctrl+T]
- Performance improvement when renaming/deleting large numbers of items via the Manage Tags/Series/Publishers/etc dialogs
- Kobo driver: Update to support soon to be released firmware update from Kobo
Bug Fixes
- Amazon metadata download: Update the amazon metadata download plugin to handle changes to the amazon.com website.
- AZW3 Output: Ignore invalid attribute names in the input document rather than aborting the conversion on them.
- Book details panel: Fix custom columns built from other columns with tag like values not clickable in the book details panel.
- Edit Book: Fix changing the editor undo/redo keyboard shortcuts not preventing the old shortcuts from working.
- CSV Catalogs: Output all custom datetime columns in the local timezone to match the format for builtin columns
- E-book viewer: When looking up words in the dictionary for a book that has no language set, use the current calibre interface language
- Fix comments editor widget in the edit metadata dialog swallowing Tab key presses, preventing the use of the keyboard to move between widgets. You can use Ctrl+Tab to insert literal tabs
- OS X: Workaround for regression in Qt 5 that causes pressing the Esc key to close the entire window instead of the current completion popup
- Fix Advanced search dialog not being sized correctly if the user selects a larger than normal interface font.
- E-book viewer: Fix page turning by clicking in the margins in full screen mode (when displaying more than one page per screen) not working because of a Qt 5 behavior change.
Improved news sources
- nrcnext
- Wall Street Journal
- Smithsonian Magazine
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung mobil