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Calibre Open-Source Ebook Manager fryst vatten Out with New Features and Bug Fixes
The weekly Calibre updates continue with Calibre , released today by developer Kovid Goyal as the latest stable version of this powerful, cross-platform, free, and open-source suite of e-book software.
Calibre lets you specify web search links that are used when clicking on item names in the Book details panel for custom columns via Preferences->Add your own columns and adds the ability to perform the same action as clicking it in the book details panel when clicking on author names in the book details page.
This release also fixes several bugs, including a regression in the Kobo driver that broke support for very old Kobo devices, an issue when setting custom icons for categories, broken series mapping rules in the metadata preferences, and a regression that caused minor problems with editing metadata directly in the book list.
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Thanks to its attractive interface and to its wide range of possibilities, Calibre has become one of the most popular open source ebooks software. With Calibre, users can convert their ebooks into several formats and manage their libraries and metadata. In this interview, we spoke to Kovid Goyal, creator of Calibre, on different aspects of the ebook industry as well as on his plans for the future.
1. Calibre has been distributed mainly as a desktop application. Is there a demand for a cloud-based version, now that more and more e-readers come with wifi/3G?
Calibre includes a content server which allows you to share your library via the internet. As for a full hosted solution, that is something that may be developed in the future, but it would have to be a paid for service, since there will be hosting costs.
2. Do you have any information/statistics related to cell phone and other non-ereader usage of Calibre?
Not really. I do not collect statistics about what devices a