calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. This year calibre takes a major change. The newly released calibre 5.0 supports highlighting in the E-book viewer and dark mode. Besides, calibre has now moved to use Python 3.
New in calibre 5.0
Welcome back, calibre users. It has been a year since calibre 4.0. The two headline features are Highlighting support in the calibre E-book viewer and that calibre has now moved to Python 3.
There has been a lot of work on the calibre E-book viewer. It now supports Highlighting. The highlights can be colors, underlines, strikethrough, etc. and have added notes. All highlights can be both stored in EPUB files for easy sharing and centrally in the calibre library for easy browsing. Additionally, the E-book viewer now supports both vertical and right-to-left text.
calibre has moved to using Python 3. This is because Python 2 was end-of-lifed this year. This should be completely transparent to calibre users, the only caveat being that some third party calibre plugins have not yet been ported to Python 3 and therefore will not work in calibre 5. For status on the various plugin ports, see here. This effort involved porting half-a-million lines of Python code and tens-of-thousands of lines of extension code to Python 3. This would not have been possible without the help of Eli Schwartz and Flaviu Tamas.
• Highlighting in the E-book viewer
• Dark mode support
• Enhanced search in the E-book viewer
• Backwards incompatibilities
calibre users have been looking forward to these new features for a long time. From the start, calibre has brought great convenience to our readers’ lives. We really want to thank calibre for every change they make along the way to make this all-in-one ebook management tool get better and better.
Bonus tip: You can remove DRM from Kindle books by installing the De-DRM plugin to calibre.
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