Calibre ebook management software is also a popular ebook reader which 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 2.61 New Features
- Driver for FNAC (re-branded Bq) with new firmware.
- Edit Book: Check Book: Add an auto fix action to remove all links to a missing resource (such as a deleted stylesheet) automatically.
Bug Fixes
- Edit Book: Check Book: Fix incorrect handling of font family names with spaces in them that are not quoted.
- E-book viewer: Fix Qt 5.7 breaking mouse wheel scrolling
- Kobo driver: Fix a regression in the last release that broke connecting to older devices
- Get Books: Fix detection of book formats broken for the Legimi plugin by a website change
- Update builtin metadata source ozon.ru to handle website changes
- Font subsetting: Fix incorrect handling of fonts whose names are included in font rules without quotes
- Fix ebook-viewer broken when running the binary calibre release on systems with very old versions of glibc
Improved News Sources
- derStandard
- Kurier
- Kliene Zeitung
Install Calibre 2.61 On Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Calibre 2.61 on Ubuntu 16.04, 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
You can also install Calibre 2.61 using the following command:
$ sudo -v && wget --no-check-certificate -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"
Once installed, open the Calibre ebook reader from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal. Run “calibre” to start calibre.
