Weekly Roundup

The big news this week is outside of the Nookverse itself. How does the release of the Kindle 3 impact Barnes and Noble’s plans for future Nooks? Will Barnes and Noble offer just a step-up or a major revision when it releases the next-gen Nook? It’s going to be an interesting holiday season this year.

NY Times [...]

FreeBooks and More for July 4

Planning on traveling this July 4 weekend and looking to load up before you hit the road? FreeBooks and more in the July 4 news roundup edition.

Calibre has been bumped up to v0.7.6–with new and improved startup speeds.
The University of Chicago Press’ freeBook for July is (appropriately) Making Patriots by Walter Berns.

Individualism and self-interest are at [...]

Late Week/Early Weekend News Roundup

Let’s get right to it–here’s the news post-v1.4 release.

The Calibre team continues its staggering development schedule, with 0.7.4 and 0.7.5 both issued during the week. The two updates include a vast number of bug fixes, along with support for new devices.
Hard science fiction author Rudy Rucker has released a Creative Commons, freeBook edition of his Ware [...]

nook News Roundup

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, but I’ve had lots of visitors as of late. It is summer, so tis the season to be swamped. I’m just going to catch up in an all-in-one post with some news items of interest. I hope you’re all doing well.

Calibre v0.7.3 features an extensive changelog, with loads of [...]

Calibre v0.7 and v0.7.1

Earlier this month, the Calibre team released the 0.7 version of the eBook manager software. The Calibre website details all of the big changes. The v0.7.1 release incorporates some bug fixes and a couple of minor [...]

Calibre v0.6.54

Released on Friday, Calibre v0.6.54 makes a number of conversion-related improvements, including EPUB output. Read about the latest changes or just download the latest version of the eBook [...]

Calibre v0.6.52

A new version of Calibre (v0.6.52) adds support for the new Kobo Reader, fixes a number of bugs and tweaks EPUB [...]

Calibre v0.6.50/1

Download Calibre v0.6.51 (the Calibre team released v0.6.50 on the same day and the .50 patch is the big one), which adds a new “Merge books feature,” support for new devices and a “Go to” menu in the eBook viewer. The update also fixes a number of [...]

Calibre v0.6.49

EBook manager Calibre v0.6.49 adds support for new devices (including Spring Design’s Alex) and fixes a number of bugs. As always, Calibre is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac computers and with [...]

Calibre 0.6.47

Fab eBook manager, Calibre, is now at v0.6.47. The latest version incorporates saved searches, searching by date, support for new devices, as well as a number of fixes, including EPUB output and optimization for thousand [...]

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