Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo Devices | Linux Today

Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo Devices

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Marius Nestor
Aug 15, 2025

Calibre 8.8 comes with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware, improved display of lookup results from Google in the E-book viewer, and the ability to handle -epub-text-emphasis properties used in some Japanese language EPUB books during conversion.

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Marius Nestor

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