

The author did not stop developing and implementing new features and as his book collection grew the idea of writing a graphical interface for libprs500 was born in order to make ebook management easy for the users.Īre you curious to know how the name calibre was born? It is the wife of the developer behind calibre software that decided to give this name which stands for freedom, indicating that calibre is free and opensource.Īccording to the official history calibre is used in over 200 countries, translated in many languages and counts a dozen of developers that give their priceless contribution to the project.

So calibre was born, but it had a different name at that time,libprs500. It was a humble project when it started life eight years ago, back in on 31 October, 2006 as the developer was a graduate student spending his time on reverse engineering the first e-ink based reader released and sold commercially by Sony. SONY PRS-500 did not work well at all for the calibre developer’s system of choice which was Linux so he decided to to reverse engineer the USB protocol that it used, to get it working on Linux.
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It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can also talk to e-book reader devices. “It now waits in the lower right corner of the main window until you are ready to deal with it.”, reads the official changelog. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all of the major e-book formats. The support for new devices is one of the developer’s priority, the application is capable to sync to e-book reader devices.Īccording to the changelog of the 2.7 release the notification system for the completion of background jobs such as bulk metadata download has been redesigned in order to stop interrupting the users while they are working. The new release of ebook reader, editor and library management software Calibre 2.7 comes with alot of bugfixes and support for the new device Kindle Voyage, which was launched just a couple of days ago.
