Calibre 1.0 released [LWN.net]

Version 1.0 of the Calibre electronic book management system has been released. "Lots of new features have been added to calibre in the last year — a grid view of book covers, a new, faster database backend, the ability to convert Microsoft Word files, tools to make changes to ebooks without needing to do a full conversion, full support for font embedding and subsetting, and many more."

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Calibre 1.0 released

Posted Aug 23, 2013 21:25 UTC (Fri) by watersb (guest, #10230) [Link]

While this seems to be a big one-oh, Calibre refers to this as "ten" in the URL to the change notes. ??
http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/ten

Calibre 1.0 released

Posted Aug 24, 2013 20:42 UTC (Sat) by tuomasjjrasanen (subscriber, #86050) [Link]

Ten one tenths?

Calibre 1.0 released

Posted Aug 26, 2013 17:30 UTC (Mon) by bvanheu (subscriber, #88814) [Link]

Previous version were also referenced by the "dot number".

0.9 was nine: http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/nine

Calibre 1.0 released

Posted Aug 28, 2013 14:51 UTC (Wed) by Kluge (guest, #2881) [Link]

In 2011, in a review of Calibre 0.8.16, our editor wrote:
"The Kindle, incidentally, will eventually be replaced with a more open device; selecting that device is likely to be the topic of a future article."

Does anyone know if that "future article" was ever posted (a search of lwn didn't find it, but it didn't find that previous article either)?

Replacement device

Posted Aug 28, 2013 15:00 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I used a Sony PRS-T1 for a bit - a nice device, though not necessarily more open. Anymore, though, I find I just haul the N7 tablet and use that. There are plenty of free reader programs for Android, and CyanogenMod makes for a mostly free OS. I'm going to be hauling the tablet anyway, so it's getting increasingly hard to throw a dedicated reader device into the bag as well.

Replacement device

Posted Aug 28, 2013 15:10 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I had a PRS-T1, but was incredibly frustrated by the bugs I encountered all the time. And when I had filled up the device half-way through, with maybe a thousand books it got awfully slow... I've got a Kobo Aura HD now, with a nice big screen, a responsive Qt-based gui -- and it really feels as if it's made for someone who reads a lot, like several hours a day.

On the other hand, my nexus 7 usually never leaves my travel bag, not when I am on the road, not when I get home. For me, it doesn't seem to work as a reading device, and it doesn't really seem to work as an internet device.