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Calibre 9.0 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released with New Bookshelf View
Highlights of Calibre 9.0 include a new Bookshelf view that arranges your ebooks on shelves, showing their spines, an “Edit book” button in the viewer controls to let you edit the current book when it’s in an editable format like EPUB, AZW3, or KEPUB, and support for following the system style (dark or light).
This release also introduces an option to replace images with their alt attribute text in the TXT Output, adds support for reading cover images from the “Open Manga Format” non-conformant EPUB files created by some Japanese publishers, and adds a tweak to change the font size of the AI chat widget.
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Your eBooks Don't Have to Look Boring, Calibre 9.0 Now has Shelves
Many of you might already be users of Calibre. If you don't know what that is, it is a very capable eBook manager that has many handy features like format conversion, news fetching, metadata editing, and a built-in viewer that supports most eBook formats.
It recently gained support for running AI locally via LM Studio, and during my use of it, everything worked as expected. I was able to ask questions about books in my library and get personalized reading recommendations without needing to send any data to cloud services.
Now, a new release is here, bringing with it some neat upgrades.
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Calibre's big update, the new Raspberry Pi OS alternative, and more Proton games: Linux news roundup
This was another big week in the Linux ecosystem, with major updates going out for DietPi, the Calibre eBook manager, and the MAME emulator, among other exciting news. Here are the biggest stories you might have missed.