winget install --id calibre.calibreAbout calibre
calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to e-book reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and macOS.
What's new in 9.8.0
New features - Content server: In the /mobile view allow clicking on book titles/covers to see book details - Edit book: Allow reset of zoom to 100% by right clicking in the preview panel - macOS Tahoe: Have the calibre app icon automatically use a dark look when the system is in dark mode - AI: Support for arbitrary local providers that export an OpenAI compatible interface Bug fixes - Native TTS engine: Normalize text to NFKC so that word tracking works when the native engine reports spoken word with different normal form - When converting GIF images to PNG workaround bug in PIL causing exception when checking if the GIF is animated Closes tickets: 2148533 - Preserve existing conversation with AI when there is an error talking to it Improved news sources - Hacker News - The Atlantic - Scientific American - Mediapart - Hindu
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 9.8.0 | Unknown | New features - Content server: In the /mobile view allow clicking on book titles/covers to see book details - Edit book: Allow reset of zoom to 100% by right clicking in the preview panel - macOS Tahoe: Have the calibre... |
| 9.7.0 | Unknown | New features - Annotations browser: Allow grouping results by any field - E-book viewer: Handle native pinch to zoom gesture on touchpads the same as the pinch to zoom on touchscreens. Default action is to change font si... |
| 9.6.0 | Unknown | New features - Full text search: A new cards based view of full text search results with book covers To perform a full text search, click the "FT" button on the left of the search bar. The old compact result view can be... |
| 9.5.0 | Unknown | New features - Allow creating a column to display reading progress Closes tickets: 2142135 Reading progress comes from the calibre E-book viewer. To create the column, go to Preferences->Add your own columns, click the p... |
| 9.4.0 | Unknown | New features - E-book viewer: Add "reading stats" to show reading progress Closes tickets: 2142715 - Edit book: Nicer UI for changing the entries in the insert tag menu - Cover grid: Option to draw emblems on top of cove... |
| 9.3.1 | Unknown | New features - Windows installer: Detect running calibre processes and ask user to shutdown calibre before proceeding with installation to avoid reboots post installation - Improve Preferences->Tweaks getting rid of the... |
| 9.3.0 | Unknown | New features - Windows installer: Detect running calibre processes and ask user to shutdown calibre before proceeding with installation to avoid reboots post installation - Improve Preferences->Tweaks getting rid of the... |
| 9.2.1 | Unknown | New features - ZIP Output: Change the template engine used for HTML templating from templite to Mustache, for greater safety and performance. Note that this is a breaking change if you use custom templates with ZIP outpu... |
| 9.2.0 | Unknown | New features - ZIP Output: Change the template engine used for HTML templating from templite to Mustache, for greater safety and performance. Note that this is a breaking change if you use custom templates with ZIP outpu... |
| 9.1.0 | Unknown | New features - This is a pure bugfix release fixing various regressions in calibre 9.0 Bug fixes - macOS: Fix crash when pasting cover image Closes tickets: 2139397 - Fix restore database not working Closes tickets: 2139... |
| 9.0.0 | Unknown | New features - A new Bookshelf view with your books arranged on shelves showing their spines. Click the Layout button in the bottom right corner of the calibre window to switch to Bookshelf view. - Viewer: Add an "Edit b... |
| 8.16.2 | Unknown | New features - Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI" - AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking... |
| 8.16.1 | Unknown | New features - Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI" - AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking... |
| 8.16.0 | Unknown | New features - Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI" - AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking... |
| 8.15.0 | Unknown | New features - E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Show the date for highlights in the tooltip when hovering over a highlight Closes tickets: 2131619 - Comments editor: When changing case preserve as much text formatting as... |
| 8.14.0 | Unknown | New features - Tolino driver: Add support for latest firmware - When showing completions for languages show all languages that contain the typed in string instead of only languages that start with the typed in string Clo... |
| 8.13.0 | Unknown | New features - Virtual libraries: Allow defining their search expressions more comfortably in a multi-line edit box Closes tickets: 2126881 - Open with: On Windows launch the specified program via the windows API for exe... |
| 8.12.0 | Unknown | New features - Tolino driver: Support for latest Tolino firmware 5.11.230427 - Ollama AI: Allow setting arbitrary HTTP headers to send with every request Bug fixes - Fix a regression in the previous release that broke co... |
| 8.11.1 | Unknown | New features - E-book viewer: Add an "Ask AI" tab to the dictionary lookup panel. Allows you to query AI about the currently selected text. Supports hundreds of AI models via Providers such as Google, OpenRouter, GitHub... |
| 8.11.0 | Unknown | New features - E-book viewer: Add an "Ask AI" tab to the dictionary lookup panel. Allows you to query AI about the currently selected text. Supports hundreds of AI models via Providers such as Google, OpenRouter, GitHub... |