Install Calibre – Linux Ubuntu e-book reader and management software. Install Calibre 2.52 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, via PPA. Calibre is a popular ebook reader which is also a powerful e-book management software. Calibre has many powerful features. Best of all, Calibre comes with an inbuilt e-book conversion feature. Calibre supports all the popular eBook formats such as epub, cbz, mobi, fb2 and others.
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:
- Library Management
- E-book conversion
- Syncing to e-book reader devices
- Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
- Comprehensive e-book viewer
- Content server for online access to your book collection
- E-book editor for the major e-book formats
Calibre 2.52
Calibre 2.52 is the latest version of the Calibre ebook software. It has been release with the following changes:
New Features
- Allow creating rules to ignore files when adding books based on the filename
Useful when using the auto-add feature or when adding in bulk. Preferences->Adding Books->Rules to filter added files
calibredb add: Allow specifying filters to control adding of books from directories
E-book viewer: Allow copying the Table of Contents to the clipboard by right clicking on it.
Bug Fixes
- FB2 metadata: Ignore invalid (unidentifiable) cover images.
FB2 metadata: Fix error when adding books with non-numeric series numbers.
DOCX Input: Fix handling of toggle properties such as bold/italic/strikethrough/etc. when specified as document defaults.
Conversion pipeline: Add support for the q CSS length unit
New news sources
- Al-Masry Alyoum by Hassan Williamson
Improved news sources
- AsiaOne
Today Online – Singapore
Foreign Policy
Outlook India
Economic and Political Weekly
Foreign Affairs
El Pais
LA Times
Al-Ahram
New York Times Book Review
Install Calibre 2.52 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Calibre 2.52 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu Derivatives Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install calibre
Once installed, open the Calibre ebook reader from Ubuntu Dash or Menu.