calibre-zenby purplecandy

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Gallery

Every screenshot and recording of calibre-zen in one place. Open any picture to see it full size, then step through the rest.

Colours and themes

Light, dim and dark, six colour schemes, and one style for every icon and menu.

Light, with the book list as row cards.
Dim, a softer dark.
Dark, with the filter panel on the left.
Olive, one of six colour schemes.
The light, dim and dark switcher, and the colour schemes.
Switching themes, and turning off a new part you do not want.
Line icons, inked in the palette colour.
A menu with icons, shortcuts and one even spacing.
The notice at the top of Look & feel.

The main window

Filters on the left, the book you picked at the top, and a table or a grid of covers below.

The whole window, with the cover grid.
The top menu, with your actions under fewer buttons.
The preview and the table.
The filter panel, in place of the tag browser.
Filters, each one a click to turn on or off.
The cover grid.
Every cover in one shape, the default.
Every cover whole, with Natural.
The status bar.

Editing a book

A smaller Edit metadata window, with tabs and grouped fields.

Details, grouped into Book, Your library and Publication.
Cover & files.
Your columns, as a grouped form.

The reader

Books open at once, with a header and a footer over the page.

The header, the footer, and Themes & Settings.
The contents, with the chapter you are reading marked.
More, in dark mode.
The reader's Preferences.

Setup and updates

Bring your calibre settings over, and get new versions from inside the app.

The first page of the welcome wizard.
Advanced lets you choose each group of settings.
When a new version is out.
The download, with its progress.
Ready to install.

Sharing your library

Phones, tablets and other computers keep reading while the window is closed.

Restart in headless mode, and sharing moves to the menubar.
Close and keep sharing, in the Connect/share menu.
Your library in a browser, at the server address and port.
The same library on a phone.

How it works

calibre underneath, and the new look on top of it.

calibre's code, and calibre-zen on top of it.