14 DAY TRIAL // Calibre developer Kovid Goyal announced the availability of Calibre 2.78.0, the latest stable version of the popular and open-source ebook library management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.
Calibre 2.78 comes exactly two weeks after the January 13 release of Calibre 2.77, which was only a bugfix version bringing various improvements to the Edit Book, DOCX output, and E-book Viewer components.
In this update, the developer also managed to add some new features, such as support for opening a certain item from an ebook's ToC (Table of Contents) directly from the command-line interface (CLI), using the new "--open-at command" argument.
A new action implemented in the right-click context menu of the View button will allow users to always open an ebook with Calibre's built-in E-book Viewer component, despite what's set in the application's preferences dialog.
Also new in Calibre 2.78 is support for the newest Kobo eReader firmware, support for downloading ebook metadata from amazon.ca (Amazon Canada), and support for a new news source, namely The Sunday Times Magazine.
Bug fixes, improved news sources
Calibre 2.78 couldn't ship without some bug fixes, as users reported many since Calibre 2.77 or previous versions. This time, the developer fixed an issue that would upload ebook covers with incorrect size to the Kobo Glo HD eReader.
It also improved Calibre's compatibility with various HTML documents by removing the # character from input filenames, patched a regression that might have caused slower loading times when displaying single HTML files within an ebook in the EPUB format.
The FOX News, Oriental Daily, The Times, Echo Online, AM730, NYTimes, The Hindu, NYTimes, kath.net, GoComics, and Mediapart news sources have been improved, and it's now possible to search similar books by using the formats field in Preferences -> Searching.
Two issues have been resolved for the Edit Book component, and various other small errors were addressed for the EPUB Output, E-book viewer, and DOCX Input functions, which might improve the overall user experience with Calibre.
Calibre 2.78.0 is now available for download for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating system from our website or directly from the official homepage of the applications. We recommend updating as soon as possible!