Calibre

Legacy Netrunner 14.x
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What is the best way to install the e-book manager Calibre? The version in the Ubuntu repositories (available through Muon) is very much out of date. There is a PPA, but the latest Calibre (2.x) seems to require Qt5 libraries, so the maintainer warns against installing it on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. I am wondering whether it is safe to install it on Netrunner 14.1, since that has some updates from Utopic?
The latest version of Calibre is in this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~n-muench/+archive/ubuntu/programs-ppa

But there are two other PPAs of the same maintainer with older versions, which may be safer to install. I am a bit confused as to which one to use.
https://launchpad.net/~n-muench/+archive/ubuntu/programs-ppa2
and
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/calibre2

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The calibre here seems to be broken anyway: https://launchpad.net/~n-muench/+archive/ubuntu/programs-ppa2/+packages
Just what new features are you expecting that current calibre doesnt have? I use calibre myself also in current version and so far have not found anything I would be missing :slight_smile:

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It’s the first time I will use Calibre, so I don’t know what features and bug-fixes the newer versions bring. I just bought a Kindle Paperwhite and thought it might be better supported on the newer versions. Does the version in Muon (calibre 1.25.0) support the Paperwhite and allow online book purchases through Amazon?