Only a week after its previous 8.6 update, Calibre, the beloved open-source e-book management software, has rolled out version 8.7, which brings some useful tweaks, much-needed fixes, and expanded news source options.
First up, the Kindle crowd gets some love. The refreshed driver can now generate APNX page-number files for 2024 and newer Kindles that mount via MTP instead of the classic USB mass storage method.
Additionally, when searching for books by the same author, Calibre now intelligently ignores the “et al.” suffix in author names, streamlining the search results for those who frequently browse extensive author collections.
Calibre 8.7 also sweeps up a short list of regressions introduced in earlier point releases:
- Send-to-device configuration is working again after last week’s slip-up. Folks who shuttle books over USB or Wi-Fi can breathe easy.
- The Kobo driver now works again with older, pre-Touch Kobo devices.
- A LibMTP quirk that prevented some systems from reporting a device’s serial number has a new workaround, improving connections for a variety of Android readers.
- In the Edit Book module, the Next/Previous buttons inside the text-search pane are functional once more, making multi-file edits far less of a slog.
- Calibre now parses series and publisher mapping rules correctly when commas appear.
- The Edit Metadata dialog stretches custom comments fields vertically when only a few are present.
In addition to these technical updates, the release enhances several built-in news recipes. New York Magazine, World Archaeology, Minerva Magazine, Military History, and Ancient Egypt all receive tweaks that improve scraping reliability and formatting.
Check out the changelog for more details and the complete list of novelties in the Calibre 8.7 open-source e-book management tool. The update is already live for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
