14 DAY TRIAL // Version 0.9.8 of the Ebook reader and management software Calibre was announced on November 23, marking an important milestone for this amazing software.
If you have an e-book reader, the Calibre software is a must-have. It does so many things for the avid reader, that it would take a lot of time to just enumerate all the features.
As usual, Calibre comes with a lot of new changes, including improved Kobo driver support and Comic metadata improvements.
Highlights of Calibre 0.9.8:
• An option to show the cover size in the book details panel on the right has been added. The option can be found in Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details; • Support for Kobo firmware 2.2 has been implemented and an option to send series of information to the device has been added; • Using custom columns as the source for Genres when generating catalogs is now permitted; • When the user asks calibre to convert a book, the application now shows a small animation to highlight the fact that the convert job has been queued to run in the background; • An option to specify the cover to use when adding books with calibredb add has been added; • Support for EPUB files with broken central directory records *and* data descriptors has been implemented; • Reading metadata from cbr files is now possible. Users can now also read the comments and the published date info from the metadata; • The processing of RAR and CBR files has been sped up by avoiding an extra file copy; • A driver for Nexus 10 has been added in the Linux version; • The handling of empty self-closing tags in the Ebook viewer has been fixed.
A complete changelog can be found in the official announcement. You can also check out our review of Calibre. Download Calibre 0.9.8 right now from Softpedia.