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Install Calibre 1.45 in Ubuntu 14.04

Calibreis a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create electronic books based on recipes of your very own ideas. New Features Edit Book: Add in-context help for HTML and CSS Now, you can right click on any HTML/OPF/NCX tag name or CSS property and the editor will open some help for that item in your browser.

Install Format Junkie 1.08 on Linux 14.04

Format Junkieis a Linux graphical user interface, user-friendly application with lots of options, which can allow you to convert your audio, video and image files to all the popular formats. The program is just a frontend to avconv and to ImageMagick. Format Junkie Features Audio: This tab allows you to convert between multiple different audio formats: mp3, mp2, wav, ogg, wma, flac, m4r, m4a and aac Video: Format Junkie supports the following video conversion formats: avi, ogv, vob, mp4, vob, flv, 3gp, mpg, mkv, wmv Image: Format Junkie uses the very powerful ImageMagick command line tools in order to perform conversion between the supported image formats.