Calibre 2.81 Ebook Manager Can Download Amazon Metadata from Multiple Sources

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released today, March 10, 2017, a new maintenance update to the open-source and cross-platform ebook library management software for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Calibre 2.81 comes two weeks after the launch of Calibre 2.80, and it finally looks like it’s more of a feature release than a bugfix one. There are quite a bunch of goodies implemented in this version, starting with support for the latest firmware for Kobo e-readers, and the ability to download Amazon metadata from multiple sources.

“You can now configure the Amazon plugin via Preferences -> Metadata download to use either the Amazon servers, or various search engine caches to get the metadata. Should help with the recent CAPTCHA problems when downloading metadata from Amazon,” e… (read more)

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