Improved Kindle Paperwhite Support with Calibre 0.9.3

Version 0.9.3 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on October 18, marking an important milestone for this amazing software.

If you have an ebook reader, the Calibre software is a must. 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, but also some much-needed drivers for various devices and Paperwhite enhanced support.

Highlights of Calibre 0.9.3:

• Support for CSS 3 selectors by switching to the new cssselect module has been added;
• Drivers for the WayteQ xBook and the Topwise Android tablet have been added;
• Output profile for the Kindle PaperWhite has been added;
• Kobo driver performance has been improved when a large number of shelves are created on the device;
• Catalog sections are now placed at the top level of ToC, for EPUB/AZW3 catalogs;
• When duplicates are found, a list of possible duplicates in calibre is shown, with title and author;
• Conversion and viewing of KF8 files generated with the unreleased kindlegen 2.7 has been fixed;
• The size of the cover thumbnails sent by calibre to the device has been increased. This fixes the problem of cover thumbnails not showing up on the PaperWhite
• Sorting on the title column of the device view has been fixed;
• An error that occurred when generating catalog in non-English locale and the user had specified a prefix rule using a Yes/no column, has been repaired;
• The reload entry from the context menu has been removed as it is not supported in paged mode;
• The news sources have been updated.

A complete changelog can be found in the official announcement. You can also check out our review of Calibre.

Download Calibre 0.9.3 right now from Softpedia.