Technically, the syntax highlighting now does idle processing, that is it yields after every line of text is highlighted to allow the rest of the UI to respond to user interaction. This gives an excellent illusion of running int he background, except for pathological files with very long lines (such as those that have all their markup on a single line).
calibre
calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to e-book reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X.
For more information, see the calibre About page
Screenshots
Usage
See the User Manual
Development
Setting up a development environment for calibre
A tarball of the source code for the current calibre release.
Bugs
Bug reports and feature requests should be made in the calibre bug tracker at launchpad. GitHub is only used for code hosting and pull requests.
Support calibre
calibre is a result of the efforts of many volunteers from all over the world. If you find it useful, please consider contributing to support its development. Donate to support calibre development.