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Calibre 8.11 E-Book Manager Adds an “Ask AI” Tab to the Dictionary Lookup Panel
Highlights of Calibre 8.11 include a new “Ask AI” tab in the dictionary lookup panel that allows you to query AI about the currently selected text. The feature supports hundreds of AI models via free providers like Google, OpenRouter, GitHub, or locally via Ollama.
Calibre 8.11 also adds a new option in Preferences to show the keyboard shortcut for each category in preferences in the tooltip, and improves several news sources, including The New York Times, The Economist, El Diplo, and New York Review of Books.
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Calibre 8.11 Adds “Ask AI” Feature to E-Book Viewer and Fixes Bugs
Two weeks after the previous 8.10 update, Calibre, the beloved open-source e-book management software, has rolled out version 8.11, which brings a notable new feature—the addition of an “Ask AI” tab inside the e-book viewer’s dictionary lookup panel.
The feature is designed to be entirely optional—no AI code is even loaded unless the user sets up a provider. Calibre supports a wide range of services, including Google, OpenRouter, GitHub, and locally running models through Ollama. Many of these can be used free of charge.
On the bug-fix side, version 8.11 addresses a handful of issues that were frustrating users. Modifying existing highlights no longer creates duplicates in some books. Very large e-books that previously had a few broken links on Windows should now open correctly. Support for certain malformed PDB files has been improved, fixing conversion failures.
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AI Comes to Open Source eBook Reader Calibre
Calibre levels up with an Hey Hi (AI) feature and other changes.