Calibre just pushed out version 8.15! While this one is more of a tidy-up release, it still brings a few welcome touches for anyone who lives inside this essential open source ebook manager.
The headline change is in the ebook viewer. Highlights now show their date inside the tooltip when you hover over them. It sounds small, but if you read a lot of technical material, novels, or PDFs scattered across a big archive, it becomes surprisingly useful to know exactly when you marked something. That extra context can help you trace your own thinking across multiple books.
The comments editor also gets smarter. When you change the case of selected text, Calibre now tries to preserve as much formatting as possible so you do not lose structure while cleaning things up. There are also new keyboard shortcuts for case changes. You can select text, right click, and see the case change menu with its shortcut hints. These kinds of quality-of-life tweaks matter when you edit metadata regularly.
On the bug fix side, Calibre tightens up several lingering issues. Editing the book list is now more stable, especially when a title gets auto-added in the background right while you are in mid-edit. The HTML syntax highlighter in the book editor had a memory leak that is now resolved. And the calibredb list command once again shows identifier values correctly, which is important for people who rely on command-line automation.
Calibre’s news system also expands. There is a new source for Hack a Day curated by Rui Rebelo, plus improvements to the Guardian feed. These integrations are always a nice bonus since they turn Calibre into more than just a library tool.
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