Calibre Zen 0.3.0, on calibre 9.15.0.
Books open at once, and the reader has the new look. If you have 0.2.0, the update window offers this version for you.
What's new
- Books open at once. A reader is ready and waiting, so a book shows in about a tenth of a second instead of two. It uses about 280 MB while the main window is open. Turn it off with Ready reader under the Calibre Zen button on the toolbar.
- The reader in the new look. Its menus, settings, icons and side panels match the rest of the app, in light and dark.
- A header and a footer over the page. Click the page, right-click or press Esc. The header has the contents, search, bookmarks and highlights. The footer turns pages and chapters, and its bar jumps anywhere in the book.
- Themes & Settings. Make the text smaller or larger, and pick a reading theme from tiles in its own colours.
- More has every other reader action, like Go to, Read aloud and Print.
- The contents show the book's cover, title and author, and mark only the chapter you are reading.
- A floating selection bar with round colour swatches for highlights.
Good to know
- Picking a theme closes the header and footer, because the book is drawn again in the new colours.
- calibre's own reader look is one click away. Turn off Reader look under the Calibre Zen button.
Installing
The packages are calibre's own 9.15.0 builds with Calibre Zen's Python laid over them. Nothing is recompiled.
- Windows.
calibre-zen-0.3.0-windows-x64.msiinstalls and upgrades in place.calibre-zen-portable-installer-0.3.0.exeupgrades a Calibre Zen Portable folder and keeps its library. Unsigned, so SmartScreen warns on first run: More info, then Run anyway. - macOS.
calibre-zen-0.3.0-macos.dmg, universal, signed and notarized. Drag Calibre Zen to Applications. - Linux.
calibre-zen-0.3.0-linux-x86_64.txzor-arm64.txz. Unpack anywhere and runcalibre-zen/calibre-zen. The.flatpakbundles install withflatpak install.
Each file has a .sha256 beside it. latest.json is the feed the app reads to find and install updates.