Version 2.0 (Released 21 August 2014) of Calibre licensed under the GNU GPL v.3 for Windows.
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
The calibre portable build can be run on any windows computer running at least Windows XP SP3. It is self contained, your calibre libraries and settings are all kept together in one place.
To use, just run the portable installer and select the location where you would like the "Calibre Portable" folder. To launch calibre, double click the "calibre-portable.exe" program inside the Calibre Portable folder.
Official site: calibre-ebook.com
Changes in 2.0
New Features
- For a summary of the major changes in calibre between 1.0 and 2.0, see http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/eleven
- Add support for MTP devices (Android phones/tablets) on OS X
- Update the version of Qt used by calibre to Qt 5. This fixes various longstanding bugs in calibre that were caused by bugs in Qt 4.
- Edit Book: Make the edit saved search/add saved search popup window non-modal.
- Tag Browser: Show format specific icons for the format entries in the Tag Browser
- Library check: Add buttons to conveniently mark all fixable/deletable items.
Bug Fixes
- E-book viewer: Reloading the book now re-opens it at the current position even if the option to remember position when quitting is turned off
- E-book viewer: Remove extra spacing between document and scrollbars. This is particularly noticeable when using a dark theme for the viewer.
- PDF Output: Fix balanced parentheses in the text of items in the Table of Contents not being rendered properly by some PDF viewers.
- Edit book: Abort terminal save on save error instead of quitting editor
- Get Books: Update the Project Gutenberg plugin for website changes
- Plugin loading: When multiple plugin classes are present in the __init__.py namespace, use the one with the qualified name that has the least components
- Edit Book: Prevent long saved searches from making the saved search dialog too wide
- Comic Input: Sort pages placed in sub-folders correctly (as long as all pages have the same number of parent folders).
- Conversion: Fix the word @page in a comment inside a stylesheet with no following {} causing the rest of the stylesheet to be ignored.
- Fix comparing AZW3 to ORIGINAL_AZW3 from the book details panel not working
New news sources
- General Knowledge Today by Kanika G
- BBC Arabic by logophile777
Improved news sources
- TIME Magazine
- The Atlantic
- Down to Earth
- Heraldo de Aragon
- Radikal (Turkey)
- Wired Daily Edition
- Orange County Register