Lots has changed in calibre-land in the last year and a half. A beefed up
e-book viewer. Support for Android phones and tablets. A new modern look for
the calibre user interface. A portable version of calibre that you can carry
around on a USB stick.

These and many more new features are described in detail below.

• 
  Enhanced E-book viewer
  
  
  

  The E-book viewer has a new "paged" mode, where the text is
  split up into pages. This means that you can have more than one
  page on the screen at a time. It also fixes some long standing
  limitations of the viewer: The top and bottom margins now work and
  the last line of text is never partially cut off.

  
  

  The viewer also has a new full screen mode that has no "chrome"
  (toolbars/menubars/etc.) to distract from the reading
  experience.

  
  

  The viewer can now display mathematics in ebooks input in either
  TeX or MathML. See this tutorial
  for details.

  
  

  Finally, the viewer now supports "themes". You can save the
  current configuration as a "theme" and quickly switch back and
  forth between them. Useful if you use a "night" mode with dark
  background and light text, for example.

  
  

  You can setup the calibre viewer to look like it does in the
  screenshots below by clicking the Preferences button in the
  viewer.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  Full support for connecting to Android phones/tablets
  
  
  

  calibre can now connect both wirelessly and over USB to Android
  devices. Modern Android devices often use a special "MTP" protocol
  when connecting by USB. calibre now supports this protocol in
  Windows (Vista and newer) and Linux.

  
  
  

  calibre also has a new "Wireless device driver" that allows
  connecting to your android device wirelessly, in exactly the same
  was as if it was plugged in via USB. To use it with an Android
  device, you need the
  Calibre Companion Android app.

  
  
  

  For details see here.

  
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  


• 
  New "modern" look
  
  
  

  The calibre user interface has a new "modern" look. This change
  gives a more 'modern' feel to the interface with focus
  highlighting, gradients, rounded corners, etc.

  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  



• 
  Calibre Portable
  
  
  

  Calibre Portable is a new type of calibre install that keeps the
  calibre library and settings together with the calibre program.
  This means that you can put the entire thing on a USB stick and
  carry it around with you. Or give the USB stick as a gift to
  someone special. Just plug the USB stick into any windows computer
  and you have a fully functional calibre, with all your books and
  settings in place. See the
  Download portable
  page for details.

  
  
  
  



• 
  Conversion engine improvements
  
  
  

  calibre's conversion engine now has full support for Amazon's new
  KF8 format. It can convert KF8 books to other formats and convert
  other formats to KF8. To convert to KF8 set the output format in
  the calibre conversion dialog to AZW3.

  
  
  

  The PDF output produced by calibre has been greatly improved.
  There are no more cut off lines of text/images at the bottom of the
  page. Top and bottom margins are set correctly. The metadat Table
  of Contents is converted to PDF Bookmarks in the output file.

  
  
  
  



• 
  Library management improvements
  
  
  0.9 brings lots of goodies to make managing your ever growing ebook collection easier:
  

  
  
  • Automatic adding of books from a specified folder: calibre
    can now monitor a specified folder on your computer and
    automatically add any files it fonds in that folder. Set it up
    via Preferences->Adding books->Automatic Adding
  
  
  • Allow the coloring of columns in the book list based on the
    book's metadata. See Preferences->Look & Feel->Column
    Coloring
  
  
  • When searching, allow use of un-accented characters to
    match accented characters. The rules for matching un-accented
    characters are done in a language dependent way. So if your
    calibre interface language is set to English, n will match both
    n and ñ, but if it is set to Spanish, it will match only n, as
    in Spanish ñ is a separate alphabet in Spanish.
  
  
  • A new "Languages" column to keep track of the book's language
  
  
  • Speed improvements for large libraries.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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This is an appropriate time to throw out a big thank you to all the calibre
developers who have contributed many of the major new features listed above.
An incomplete list of contributors is available here.

Note that many of these features were actually introduced during the
lifetime of the 0.8.x series. This document describes new features as compared
to 0.8.0

See what was new in previous major calibre releases: 0.8, 0.7.