When it comes to e-books, they are a specific file format that is constantly growing in terms of market penetration. In fact, ebooks are digital substitutes for traditional paper books, but we can read them from a multitude of devices. There are several programs related to these files, but without a doubt Calibre is perhaps the most representative.
It is true that the electronic books we are talking about have many advantages over the conventional physical format . With everything and with this, there are still many users who continue to prefer paper. With everything and this and as usual, to deal with these files corresponding to the aforementioned ebooks, we are going to need certain programs. There are many that will allow us to read, convert or manage our library of books in digital format. However, for years, Calibre is perhaps the most popular and used option for these tasks.
Well, we tell you all this because a new version of the program has just been released, specifically we refer to Calibre 5.0 . To give us an idea, a whole year has passed since the launch of Calibre 4.0, so many were waiting for the news included here.
Main news coming to Calibre 5
As expected, there are several corrections and new functions that come to version 5 of the program. Among these we can highlight, first of all, the possibility of highlighting text fragments of the books in the viewer integrated in Calibre . On the other hand, it also deserves a special mention that the program is now using Python 3. Thus, if we refer to the first of the sections, to say that its developers have worked a lot on the electronic book viewer itself.
Thus, at this time the program allows us to highlight text fragments of the ebooks through different colors, underlines, strikethroughs, etc. In addition, we can also add personalized notes from the commented editor of the program. It is worth mentioning that all the highlights that we carry out can be saved in EPUB-type files to share or store in our Calibre library.
On the other hand, it is worth knowing that now the e-book viewer allows the use of vertical text and writing from right to left.
Other changes coming to the e-book manager
Changing third, as we mentioned before, Calibre has switched to using Python 3 . This is mainly due to the fact that Python 2 maintenance ended this year, although this is a change that should be transparent to users. The only palpable difference here is that some third-party plugins have not yet been converted to Python 3. This is why, as is easy to imagine, they both will not work in the new Calibre 5.
Another of the smaller changes that have been incorporated into the new version of the program is the arrival of a dark mode on the main interface . In addition, this can be applied to the electronic book viewer that we discussed before, or to the ebook editor. Say that in Windows and macOS this dark mode is activated automatically depending on the configuration of the operating system .
In the same way, now we can do advanced searches in the book viewer by complete words, regular expressions, etc. You can download this new version of Calibre 5 from this link .
