Calibre Zen 0.2: Move From calibre in One Click

Calibre Zen is a modern interface for calibre’s ebook library manager. It installs alongside calibre and works with your existing libraries, settings and plugins. Version 0.2.0 is out, built on calibre 9.15, and it makes switching from calibre a one-click job.

Bring your calibre settings with you

The welcome wizard now opens on a setup page with three choices:

• Bring over my calibre settings. Your library, plugins and preferences come across. This option appears when calibre’s settings are found on your computer.
• Start fresh. Calibre Zen’s own settings, with a library you pick on the same page.
• Advanced. Pick the settings folder, the library, and which groups of settings and which plugins come over, each with its own switch.

Your calibre stays exactly as it was. The wizard copies once: changes you make in calibre later stay in calibre. When you run it again and replace your settings, a backup of the current ones is made first.

A few things are left behind on purpose. Look and feel settings don’t come over, because a font or icon size from calibre breaks the new look in small ways everywhere. Your language is the one exception. Both apps can open the same library, but use it in one app at a time.

Also in 0.2.0

• Updates from inside the app.
• A smaller Edit metadata window.
• A Flatpak for Linux.
• Any folder can hold a new library. A folder with other files in it used to be a dead end. Now the wizard asks first, and nothing in it is moved or removed.

The release notes have the full list, with screenshots.

Calibre Zen is free and open source, for Windows, macOS and Linux.