calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.

New Features
* 0.7.42 is a re-release of 0.7.41, because conversion to MOBI was broken in 0.7.41
* Conversions: Replace the remove header/footer options with a more geenric search replace option, that allows you to not only remove but also replace text
* Conversion: The preprocess html option has now become a new 'Heuristic Processing' option which allows you to control exactly which heuristics are used
* Conversion: Various improvements to Heuristic Processing (used to be preprocess HTML)
* When adding empty books to calibre, optionally set the author to the author of the currently selected book
Closes tickets: 7702 [External link]
* Device drivers for the Archos 101, SmatQ T7 and Acer Lumiread
* Catalog generation: Make By Authors optional
* Allow bulk editing of Date and Published columns.
* Add a little button to clear date and published values to the edit metadata dialogs
* When adding books by ISBN, allow the specification of special tags that will be added to the new book entries
Closes tickets: 8436 [External link]
* Completion on multiple authors
Closes tickets: 8405 [External link]
* Add AZW to default list of internally viewed formats, a I am tired of getting tickets about it
* Nicer error message when catalog generation fails
* Add capitalize option to context menus in the edit metadata dialog

Bug Fixes
* RTF Input: Fix regression in 0.7.40 that broke conversion of some old style RTF files
* Fix Tag editor forgets position
Closes tickets: 8271 [External link]
* When converting books in the calibre GUI, override metadata from the input document, even when empty.
Closes tickets: 8390 [External link]
"So if you have removed all the tags and comments in the calibre GUI for the book in the calibre GUI, but the actual file that is being converted still has tags and comments, they are ignored. This affects only conversions in the calibre GUI, not from the command line via ebook-convert."
* Fix memory leak when switching libraries
* RTF Output: Fix incorrent spacing between letters.
Closes tickets: 8422 [External link]
* Catalog generation: Add composite columns to Merge Comments eligible types
* Add a confirmation when closing the add a custom news source dialog.
Closes tickets: 8460 [External link]
* Another workaround for LibraryThing UA sniffing that was preventing series metadata download, sigh.
Closes tickets: 8477 [External link]
* PD Novel driver: Put books on the SD card into the eBooks folder
* When shortening filepaths to conform to windows path length limitations, remove text from the middle of each component instead of the ends.
Closes tickets: 8451 [External link]
* Make completion in most places case insensitive
Closes tickets: 8441 [External link]
* Fix regression that caused the N key to stop working when editing a Yes/no column
Closes tickets: 8417 [External link]
* Email: Fix bug when connecting to SMTP relays that use MD5 auth
* MOBI Output: Fix bug that could cause a link pointing to the start of a section to go to a point later in the section is the section contained an empty id attribute
* When auto converting books and the device is unplugged, do not raise an error.
Closes tickets: 8426 [External link]
* Ebook-viewer: Display cover when viewing FB2 files
* MOBI Input: Special case handling of emptu div tags with a defined height used as paragraph separators.
Closes tickets: 8391 [External link]
* Fix sorting of author names into sub categories by first letter in the Tag Browser when the first letter has diacritics
Closes tickets: 8378 [External link]
* Fix regression in 0.7.40 that caused commas in author names to become | when converting/saving to disk
* Fix view specific format on a book with no formats gives an error
Closes tickets: 8352 [External link]

New news sources
* kath.net by Bobus
* iHNed by Karel Bilek
* Gulf News by Darko Miletic
* South Africa Mail and Guardian by 77ja65

Improved news sources
* Blic
* Las Vegas Review Journal
* La Vanguardia
* New York Times
* El Pais
* Seattle Times
* Ars Technica
* Dilbert
* Nature News

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 0.7.42 Size: 36.9MB Works on: Windows, Mac, Linux Product page: here