0.5.0

A new web app

Open your server’s address on a phone or another computer, and the new web app is there. It has the same calm look as the desktop app.

• Browse. Search, filter and sort in a grid or a list, and switch between libraries.
• Read. Continue reading sits at the top of the sidebar. Keep books on a device to read them offline.
• Edit. Change any field, the cover or the formats. Add books by upload, delete them, or copy and move them to another library.
• Search inside books and convert them, each from its own page.
• Your settings follow you to every device you sign in on.
• It works offline. The library and its covers stay on your device, and the app opens in the view you left it in.

Good to know

• calibre’s web app is one click away. The new app’s menu opens it, and a button on calibre’s home screen brings you back.
• You choose which app opens first. Untick the new box in Preferences → Sharing over the net to keep calibre’s app at the address. On Docker, set CALIBRE_ZEN_WEB_HOME=calibre.
• calibre’s reader in the browser has the same look as the desktop reader.

Run it on a home server gets your library onto every browser in the house.

On a Mac

A book opened from Finder, Spotlight or Open With now opens in Zen’s reader, even with calibre installed. The editor works the same way.

calibre 9.18 underneath

• Natural voices for Read aloud. The new Kokoro voices sound much closer to a person reading.
• Reading progress syncs with KOReader through your server.
• Search only the current chapter in the reader.
• A new Accessibility tool in the book editor sets image descriptions and languages, and checks for problems.
• Faster in big libraries, with many fixes for converting PDF, EPUB and DOCX.

Smaller changes

• Books without a cover show a card with the title and author in the cover grid. The ring shows on them when you select or point at them.
• Text in the cover grid is easy to read in light schemes.
• Past searches under the search box have a background, so they stand out from the window.
• The update link no longer offers version 0.0.0.
• Links in the app now go to calibrezen.com.