The new ebook reader from Barnes & Noble can now be used with Calibre

Apr 27, 2012 06:59 GMT  ·  By

Version 0.8.49 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre has been announced today, April 27th, with some important new features and fixes.

Calibre 0.8.49 doesn't has a lot of changes, but it does come with a very important driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light.

Highlights of Calibre 0.8.49:

• Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files was added; • Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing; • A cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog is now shown; • Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light was added; • A tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when pasting in a new cover was repaired; • Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end of lines..

A complete changelog can be found in the official announcement.

Download Calibre 0.8.49 right now from Softpedia.

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