Install Calibre 0.8.67 Library in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (New Release)

Install Calibre 0.8.67 Library in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 12

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.

It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

1. Library Management
2. E-book conversion
3. Syncing to e-book reader devices
4. Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
5. Comprehensive e-book viewer
6. Content server for online access to your book collection

New Features

• Generate a PDF Outline based on the Table of Contents of the input document
• Add an option under Structure Detection to set the 'Start reading at' metadata with an XPath expression.
• Speed up changing the title and author of files with books larger than 3MB by avoiding an unnecessary extra copy.
• Wireless device driver: Make detecting and connecting to devices easier on networks where mdns is disabled
• Allow choosing the default font family and size when generating PDF files (under PDF Options) in the conversion dialog
• Metadata dialog: Comments editor: Allow specifying the name of a link when using the insert link button.
• Remove the unmaintained pdfmanipulate command line utility. There are many other tools that provide similar functionality, for example, pdftk and podofo

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression that broke sorting of non series titles before series titles
• Do not create duplicate embedded fonts in the PDF for every individual HTML file in the input document
• Fix regression that broke DnD of files having a # character in their names to the book details panel
• Allow generating PDF files with more than 512 pages on windows.
• Fix minor bug in handling of the completion popups when using the next/previous buttons in the edit metadata dialog

New Sources added:

• Cumhuriyet Yzarlar by Sethi Eksi
• Arcadia by Masahiro Hasegawa
• Business Week Magazine and Chronicle of Higher Education by Rick Shang
• CIPER Chile by Darko Miletic
• Improved news sources
• Coding Horror
• TIME Magazine

For other Ubuntu distributions install from Ubuntu Software Center. It's old version is also available in Ubuntu Software Center.

To install Calibre in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/calibre
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install calibre

That's it, Enjoy

Source: Calibre

Install Calibre Library in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (New Release)

Install Calibre Library in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.

It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

1. Library Management
2. E-book conversion
3. Syncing to e-book reader devices
4. Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
5. Comprehensive e-book viewer
6. Content server for online access to your book collection

New Features

• E-book viewer: Add a paged mode that splits up the text into pages, like in a paper book instead of presenting it as a single column. To activate click the button with the yellow scroll icon in the top right corner.
• Digitally sign the calibre OS X and windows builds
• Get Books: Add Mills and Boon UK
• Various minor improvements to the Bulk metadata edit dialog
• Fix various regression in the auto-complete functionality for authors/series/tags etc introduced in 0.8.60
• Drivers for various new Android devices
• MOBI: Add support for the new language EXTH header field in MOBI files generated by kindlegen 2.5

Bug Fixes

• KF8 Output: Fix calibre produced KF8 files not showing the 'Use publisher font' option on the Kindle Touch when they have embedded fonts
• Txt/fb2/rtf/pml/rb output: Fix non-visibile element's tail text (which should be visible) is being ignored when it shouldn't.
• Book details panel: When displaying a link to amazon, use a country specific name like amazon.fr instead of using amazon.com for all countries
• Conversion: When splitting on page breaks, ignore page-breaks with values of auto and inherit.
• Metadata jacket: Specify foreground in addition to the background color for the title banner so that it remain readable if the user tries to monkey with the CSS in the viewer.
• PDF Output: Fix rendering of cover as first age of PDF (ignore margins so that the image covers the entire page)
• Linux binaries: Bundle libglib to avoid incompatibilities with glib on various distros.
• Fix find_identical_books() choking on books with too many authors

It's old version is also available in Ubuntu Software Center.

To install Calibre on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/calibre
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install calibre

That's it, Enjoy

Source: Calibre