This version of Calibre is a small but important one

Jan 30, 2015 12:23 GMT  ·  By

Calibre is an eBook reader, converter, and editor, just to pinpoint some of the major features of the application. A new update has been released for it and the developer has made a number small improvements to the app.

The development cycle of Calibre has been rather quiet and very few new features or major changes have been made in the past few weeks. This might indicate the fact that the application is now moving towards fixing certain existing problems and has finished pretty much with the new features.

In any case, Calibre is now the most advanced application of its kind on Linux and that's probably true if we take into account the Windows and Mac OS X platforms as well. What makes it even better is the fact that it's free and open source, so it's difficult to come up with a new solutions right now and ask for money.

Calibre 2.18 is not a major update

Most of the previous updates have been rather small and they seem to decrease in size with each passing week. It's not something bad, it just means that there are fewer problems to fix and that the community hasn't been making too many requests.

"Re-arrange the controls to avoid needing to move the mouse from the top to the bottom of the dialog when closing the dialog after making some changes.  Allow expanding all children of a node by right clicking and choosing 'Expand All,'" reads the official changelog.

These are only a couple of the changes made by the latest iteration, which also includes a fix for some problems that occurred when users were saving multiple books to disk, and a better implementation of Al Jazeera as a news source.

You can also check out our review of Calibre and download Calibre 2.18 from Softpedia, but keep in mind that this is just the source and it needs to be compiled. For an automated installation procedure, check the official website.

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