Install Calibre Library on 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:
To install Calibre on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
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
- Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files
- Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed and robustness.
- Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog
- Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light
- Heuristics: When italicizing words do not operate on words not in between HTML tags.
- Fix (I hope) the bulk metadata download process crashing for some people on OS X when clicking the Yes button to apply the updates.
- Fix tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when pasting in a new cover
- Cover Browser: Wrap the title on space only, not in between words.
- Edit metadata dialog: If a permission denied error occurs when clicking the next or prev buttons, stay on the current book.
- Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end of lines.
To install Calibre on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Source: Calibre
