Now available for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms

Dec 12, 2016 02:05 GMT  ·  By

It's been two weeks since the last point release of the Calibre 2.7 open-source, free, and cross-platform ebook library management software, and developer Kovid Goyal is back with a new version that adds a couple of new features and fixes many issues.

Calibre 2.74 is here to implement support for downloading Amazon metadata from the Amazon China (amazon.cn) website, a functionality that can be enabled from the Metadata download setting in the Preferences dialog of the application. There, users can customize the Amazon plugin to download metadata from https://www.amazon.cn.

Another new feature introduced by the Calibre 2.74 release is the ability to disable the "Files already arranged into folders" pop-up message in the Edit Book component. Also, it improves the Frontline, Pagina 12, tyzden, Kitsapun, Korea Herald, Sign on SD, Mobile Nations, Edge Conversations, Star Advertiser, Security Watch, and NME news sources.

Bug fixes, lots of bug fixes

From the release notes, which we've attached below for your reading pleasure, it looks like Calibre 2.74 is mostly about fixing bugs rather than implementing new features. And among the bug fixes that stand out most, we can notice a regression from Calibre 2.72 that broke the "--start-in-tray" command-line option, a highlight problem with selected tex in Edit Book when using the solarized color scheme, and support for third-party plugins that create dynamic context menus on Linux platforms

Other than that, the Catalog generation functionality now allows for citation keys in BibTeX catalogs to have only ASCII characters, an error in DOCX Output that occurred when attempting to convert tables with spanning cells was fixed, and the EPUB3 metadata and DOCX Input components have been improved. Download Calibre 2.74 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems now from our website.

Calibre 2.74 Changelog