Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

[SiLæncer]

Programm zur Verwaltung und Synchronisation von E-Books; legt eine Bibliothek mit eigenen E-Books an, konvertiert zwischen gängigen Formaten, enthält einen E-Book-Viewer und synchronisiert den eigenen Bestand mit E-Book-Readern; erlaubt das Erstellen eigener E-Books etwa aus Webseiten oder RSS-Feeds heraus und bietet Fernzugriff auf die eigene Bibliothek über den Browser.

New features:

    Template language: Speedup evaluation of general program mode templates by pre-compiling them to python. If you experience errors with this optimization, you can turn it off via Preferences->Tweaks. Also other miscellaneous optimizations in evaluating templates with composite columns.
    MOBI Output: Add an option to not convert all images to JPEG when creating MOBI files. For maximum compatibility of the produced MOBI files, do not use this option.
    Add iPad3 Output Profile

Bug fixes:

    KF8 Input: Add support for KF8 files with obfuscated embedded fonts
    Make the stars in the book list a little larger on windows >= vista
    Revised periodical Section layout, for touchscreen devices resolving iBooks problem with tables spanning multiple pages
    Read dc:contributor metadata from MOBI files
    MOBI Output: Fix a regression that caused the generated thumbnail embedded in calibre produced MOBI files to be a large, low quality image instead of a small, high quality image. You would have been affected by this bug only if you directly used the output from calibre, without exporting it via send to device or save to disk.
    KF8 Input: Recognize OpenType embedded fonts as well.
    Fix regression in 0.8.41 that caused file:/// URLs to stop working in the news download system on windows.
    When setting metadata in MOBI files fix cover not being updated if the mobi file has its first image record as the cover
    Fix column coloring rules based on the size column not working

New news sources:

    SatMagazine by kiavash

Improved news sources:

    Microwaves and RF
    idg.se

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New Features

    E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode, with no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer.

    Closes tickets: 959830 [External link]
    Copy to Library: If books were auto merged by the copy to library process, popup a message telling the user about it, as otherwise some people forget they have turned on auto merge and accuse calibre of losing their books.
    Unix driver for Ectaco JetBook color

    Closes tickets: 958442 [External link]
    Add a link to the 'Adding Books Preferences' in the drop down menu of the Add Books button for easier access and more prominence

    Closes tickets: 958145 [External link]
    Smarten punctuation: Add a few more cases for detecting opening and closing quotes

Bug Fixes

    Get Books: Updates to various store plugins to deal with website changes: Amazon Europe, Waterstones, Foyles, B&N, Kobo, Woblink and Empik
    Catalog generation: Do not error out when generating csv/xml catalogs if the catalog title contains filename invalid characters.

    Closes tickets: 960154 [External link]
    RTF Output: Ignore corrupted images in the input document, instead of erroring out.

    Closes tickets: 959600 [External link]
    E-book viewer: Try to preserve page position when the window is resized
    Fix bug that caused wrong series to be shown when clicking on the first letter of a series group in the Tag Browser
    Fix calibre not supporting different http and https proxies.

    Closes tickets: 960173 [External link]
    MOBI Input: Fix regression caused by KF8 support that broke reading of ancient non-Amazon PRC files
    Fix EPUB to EPUB conversion of an EPUB with obfuscated fonts resulting in the fonts not being readable in Adobe Digital Editions

    Closes tickets: 957527 [External link]
    RTF Output: Fix bug that broke conversion to RTF when the input document contains <img> tags with no src attribute.
    Fix regression in 0.8.43 that broke use of general mode templates that ended in a semi-colon.

    Closes tickets: 957295 [External link]

New news sources

    Ivana Milakovic and Klub knjige by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    b92
    Various Polish news sources
    Le Monde
    FHM UK

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New Features

    E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries
    calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books.

    Closes tickets: 951063 [External link]
    Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001
    KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples.

    Closes tickets: 963418 [External link]
    When a new plugin is added to calibre for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation)
    Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog

    Closes tickets: 963559 [External link]

Bug Fixes

    E-book viewer: Fix last read position (and bookmarks in general) being inaccurate for some books.

    The technique for marking locations in books used by the viewer has changed. The new technique should be much more accurate than the last one, especially when the font size at which the book is being viewed is changed. Note that this change means that bookmarks created with this release of calibre will not be read by previous calibre versions. On a technical note, the viewer now uses the CFI specification from the EPUB 3 standard for bookmarks.
    Workarounds for a few regressions in the user interface in 0.8.44 caused by the update to Qt 4.8.0
    Books list: Preserve the horizontal scroll position when sorting by a column
    Fix saving to disk and then adding the book back not restoring tags-like custom columns
    Linux installer: Fix completion for ebook-convert not working.

    Closes tickets: 967834 [External link]
    MOBI Output: Recognize type=text in addition to type=start guide elements
    Get Books: Updates to Nexto, Ebookpoint and Woblink stores
    Fix unable to clear username/password in Fetch news dialog
    PDF Output: Fix margin specifications not being applied
    Linux installer: Manually preserve the defaults.list mimetype association file to workaround buggy xdg-desktop-menu implementations in some distros.

    Closes tickets: 926559 [External link]
    E-book viewer: Fix regression that caused the ebook viewer to stop functioning if it is launched from the main calibre program and then the main calibre program is closed.

    Closes tickets: 963960 [External link]

New news sources

    NRC Handelsblad (free) by veezh

Improved news sources

    Our Daily Bread

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

Konvertiert eBooks zwischen verschiedenen eReader-Formaten

Freeware

http://ebook.hamstersoft.com/

[SiLæncer]

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.

Freeware

Whats new: >>

New Features

    Auto adding: When automatically adding files from a folder, automatically convert the files to the current output format after adding. This can be turned off via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding.

    Closes tickets: 969053 [External link]
    E-book viewer: When reading a MOBI file that is actually a KF8 book, show the format as being KF8
    Content server: Workaround for android stock browser not support HTTP AUTH.
    Edit metadata dialog: Change the remove unused series button to a clear series button (as the remove unused series function is now automatic)
    Driver for PocketBook 622.

    Closes tickets: 969875 [External link]

Bug Fixes

    Run metadata downloads in a separate process to workaround memory leaks in third party plugins. Also removes the need to break up bulk metadata downloads into 100 book batches.
    Make tag browser filtering work when capital letters are entered.
    EPUB metadata: Ignore urn:isbn: prefix from ISBN declaration when reading metadata
    Get books: Fix feedbooks store not showing all available formats
    KF8 Input: When the KF8 book has no metadata ToC, try to extract the ToC from the HTML instead.

    Closes tickets: 969238 [External link]
    Fix regression that broke access to Preferences via the Preferences item in the calibre menu on OS X

    Closes tickets: 969418 [External link]
    Fix bug that ignored metadata specified on the command line when using calibredb add

New news sources

    The Southern Star by watou
    Buenos Aires Herald by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    OReilly Premium
    Real Clear
    Soldier's Magazine
    Rue89

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

What's new: >>

New features:

    Conversion pipeline: Add support for all the named entities in the HTML 5 spec.
    Support for viewing and converting the Haodoo PDB ebook format.
    Device driver for Laser EB720.

Bug fixes:

    Fix regression in automatic adding in 0.8.46 that broke automatic adding if adding of duplicates is enabled and auto convert is also enabled.
    Fix "Tags" field in advanced search does not obey regex setting.
    EPUB Input: Automatically extract cover image from simple HTML title page that consists of only a single <img> tag, instead of rendering the page.
    Prevent errors when both author and author_sort are used in a template for reading metadata from filenames for files on a device.
    Amazon metadata download: Handle books whose titles start with a bracket.
    Get Books: Fix downloading of purchased books from Baen.

New news sources:

    Melbourne Herald Sun
    Editoriali and Zerocalcare

Improved news sources:

    Forbes
    Caros Amigos
    Trouw
    Sun UK
    Metro
    Daily Mirror

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New Features

    Conversion: The search and replace feature has been completely revamped.

    Closes tickets: 983476 [External link] , 983484 [External link] , 983478 [External link]

    You can now use any number of search and replace expression, not just three. You can also store and load frequently used sets of search and replace expressions. Also, the wizard generates its preview in a separate process to protect against crashes/memory leaks.
    Support for the new '.azw3' files that Amazon recently started generating. calibre will now detect them as ebooks. It can also view/convert them, if they are DRM free.
    Drivers for Samsung Galaxy ACE GT-S5830L and HTC One X

    Closes tickets: 981185 [External link]

Bug Fixes

    Get Books: Support the new website design of Barnes & Noble
    T1 driver: Fix books sent to SD card sometimes resulting problems when deleted.

    Closes tickets: 943586 [External link]
    Do not allow author names to be set to blank via the Manage authors function. Blank authors are now automatically set to 'Unknown'
    MOBI Output: Handle background color specified on <td> and <tr> in addition to <table> tags.

    Closes tickets: 980813 [External link]
    MOBI Output: Fix underline style applied to parent element not getting inherited by <a> children.

    Closes tickets: 985711 [External link]

New news sources

    Various new Polish news sources by fenuks
    Various Italian news sources by faber1971
    Jakarta Globe by rty
    Acim Bilim Dergisi by thomass

Improved news sources

    xkcd
    Metro Nieuws
    Calgary Herald
    Orlando Sentinel
    countryfile
    Heise

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New Features

    Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files

    calibre can now generate Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files. To turn on this feature, go to Preferences->Tweaks and click Plugin Tweaks. In the box add: test_mobi_output_type = 'both' calibre will now produce MOBI files that have both the old MOBI format and the new KF8 format in them. To learn more about KF8, see: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511 [External link] Note that calibre support for KF8 is still experimental and there will likely be bugs.
    Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed and robustness.
    Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog

    Closes tickets: 986958 [External link]
    Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light

    Closes tickets: 989264 [External link]

Bug Fixes

    Heuristics: When italicizing words do not operate on words not in between HTML tags.

    Closes tickets: 986298 [External link]
    Fix (I hope) the bulk metadata download process crashing for some people on OS X when clicking the Yes button to apply the updates.

    Closes tickets: 986658 [External link]
    Fix tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when pasting in a new cover

    Closes tickets: 986958 [External link]
    Cover Browser: Wrap the title on space only, not in between words.

    Closes tickets: 986516 [External link]
    Edit metadata dialog: If a permission denied error occurs when clicking the next or prev buttons, stay on the current book.

    Closes tickets: 986903 [External link]
    Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end of lines.

    Closes tickets: 822744 [External link]

New news sources

    Berria by Alayn Gortazar
    Sol Haber by Onur Gungor
    Telam by Darko Miletic
    Richmond Times-Dispatch by jde

Improved news sources

    Metro Nieuws NL
    Der Tagesspiegel

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New features:

    Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6 will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded.
    AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware.
    Conversion: Allow easy re-ordering of the search and replace expressions in the conversion dialog. Also apply the expressions in the same order that they were entered when doing the conversion.
    Automatically add the Tag 'Sample Book' when an Amazon sample is added to calibre.
    FB2 Input: Better handling of inline images.

Bug fixes:

    KF8 Output: Fix section to section jumps not working for documents with multi-level ToCs.
    EPUB Input: Handle the case of the metadata ToC containing a reference to the cover HTML file.
    CHM Input: Handle files with deeply nested markup and non html files listed at the start of the manifest.
    KF8 Output: Workaround Kindle Touch bug that causes the book to be rendered as black pages when a height is specified for <body>.
    Fix regression in 0.8.49 that broke italics detection in heuristic processing on 32-bit systems.
    KF8 Output: Fix joint MOBI6/KF8 books not being recognized as MOBI files by older Kindles.
    KF8 Output: Fix errors when processing documents with HTML comments and/or XML processing instructions.
    Get Books: Amazon fix prices not being found. B&N fix details link.
    ebooks.com: fix cover image. Website changes to various EU stores.
    FB2 Input: More robust base64 decoding to handle embedded images that are incorrectly encoded.
    Fix scrolling with the cover browser updating only the selection in the book list, not the current book.
    Save to Disk: Do not run out memory when saving very large files on systems with low RAM.
    FB2 Output: Use 2 letter language codes in preference to 3-letter ones to not break poorly implemented FB2 readers.
    EPUB Input: Auto set the media-type for OPF manifest entries with an empty media-type.

New news sources:

    George Monbiot
    El Mundo
    AraInfo and Diagonal

Improved news sources:

    National Post
    Daily Mirror
    Sun
    Newsweek Polska
    Max-Planck
    derStandard
    tweakers.net

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[ritschibie]

Find' ich ganz interessant, dass man jetzt auch andere eBook-Formate in Kindles F8-Format umwandeln kann mit dieser Soft. Siehe dazu auch:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Calibre-exportiert-ins-KindleFormat-KF8-1569893.html

[SiLæncer]

Siehe auch ->

    AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware.

New features:

    When switching libraries preserve the position and selected books if you switch back to a previously opened library.
    Conversion pipeline: Filter out the useless font-face rules inserted by Microsoft Word for every font on the system.
    Driver for Motorola XT875 and Pandigital SuperNova.
    Add a colour swatch the the dialog for creating column coloring rules, to ease selection of colors.
    EPUB Output: Consolidate internal CSS generated by calibre into external stylesheets for ease of editing the EPUB.
    List EPUB and MOBI at the top of the dropdown list fo formats to convert to, as they are the most common choices.

Bug fixes:

    E-book viewer: Improve performance when switching between normal and fullscreen views.
    Edit metadata dialog: When running download metadata do not insert duplicate tags into the list of tags.
    KF8 Input: Do not error out if the file has a few invalidly encoded bytes.
    Fix download of news in AZW3 format not working.
    Pocketbook driver: Update for new PB 611 firmware.
    ebook-convert: Error out if the user prvides extra command line args instead of silently ignoring them.
    EPUB Output: Do not self close any container tags to prevent artifacts when EPUBs are viewed using buggy browser based viewers.
    Fix regression in 0.8.50 that broke the conversion of HTML files that contained non-ascii font-face declarations, typically produced by Microsoft Word

New news sources:

    Mainichi English
    The Grid TO
    National Geographic (Italy)
    Rebelion

Improved news sources:

    Mainichi news
    derStandard
    Endgadget Japan

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New Features

    EPUB Input: When setting the cover for a book that identifies its cover image, but not the html wrapper around the cover, try to detect and remove that wrapper automatically.

    Closes tickets: 999959 [External link]
    When deleting books of a specific format, show the number of books with each format available
    Linux install: No longer create MAN pages as all utilities have more comprehensive command line --help anyway
    Add a tweak Preferences->Tweaks to control the default choice of format for the Tweak Book feature
    Conversion: Allow setting negative page margins. A negative page margin means that calibre will not specify any page margin in the output document (for formats that support this)

Bug Fixes

    Tweak book: Fix handling of covers when tweaking KF8 books
    KF8 Output: Handle input documents with out of sequence ToC entries. Note that currently section jumping in the KF8 output produced by calibre for such files does not work.

    Closes tickets: 1000493 [External link]
    Edit metadata dialog: Fix the edit values button for custom tag-like columns showing a unneeded warning about changed values
    EPUB Output: Be a little more conservative when removing <form> tags. Only remove them if they have actual forms inside.

    Closes tickets: 1000384 [External link]
    EPUB Input: Correctly update the Cover entry in the ToC even when the entry has a fragment reference.

    Closes tickets: 999973 [External link]
    Update ImagMagick DLLs in all calibre binary builds to fix security vulnerabilities in ImageMagick

    Closes tickets: 999496 [External link]
    Advanced search dialog: Fix equals and regex matching not being applied for custom column searches.

    Closes tickets: 980221 [External link]
    RTF Input: Handle old RTF files that have commands without braces.

    Closes tickets: 994133 [External link]
    Get Books: Diesel, fix results not showing when only a single match is found
    Get Books: Fix DRM status indicators for Kobo and Diesel stores. Fix smashwords not returning results.

    Closes tickets: 993755 [External link]
    Fix regression in 0.8.51 that broke viewing of LIT and some EPUB files

    Closes tickets: 998248 [External link] , 998216 [External link]

New news sources

    Army/Navy/Air force/Marine Times and News busters by jde
    Ads of the World, Heavy Meta (Italian) and Juve La Stampa by faber1971
    Revista Summa by Vakya
    Strategic culture by Darko Miletic
    Stars and Stripes by adoucette
    Nackdenkseiten by jrda

Improved news sources

    Clarin
    Spiegel
    Spiegel International
    Montreal Gazette
    Gosc Niedzelny
    Ars Technica

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New Features

    Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books
    Support for updating metadata in FB2 files
    Set a different background color when choosing formats to not delete as opposed to choosing format to delete.

    Closes tickets: 1001741 [External link]
    E-book viewer: Add an option to prevent the up and down arrow keys from scrolling past page breaks
    Get Books: Remove ebookshoppe.com at the website's request

Bug Fixes

    PDF Input: Support image rotation commands in PDF files. Fixes the long standing problem of some images being flipped when converting from PDF in calibre.
    Fix a regression in 0.8.51 that caused conversion to HTMLZ to not have any CSS
    Get Books: Fix website change at kobo.com causing prices not to be found
    Edit the time in the 24 hour clock when calibre's interface language is set to German.

    Closes tickets: 1001809 [External link]
    MOBI Output: When generating joint KF8/MOBI6 .mobi files set the text length field in the MOBI 6 header correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1003489 [External link]
    ODT Input: More workarounds for LibreOffice 3.5's habit of inserting pointless margin:100% directives everywhere.

    Closes tickets: 1002702 [External link]
    Fix regression that broke smarten punctuation when quotes were next to html tags.

    Closes tickets: 998900 [External link]
    Fix published date from ozon.ru wrong in some timezones

    Closes tickets: 975338 [External link]
    Catalogs: Handle the use of custom columns with non-ascii names correctly

    Closes tickets: 1001437 [External link]
    Conversion pipeline: Remove the attempt to detect and autocorrect if text will go off the left edge of the page, as it was a rather crude heuristic. Also do not remove fake margins if the book uses negative text indents on the margined elements.
    KF8 Output: Set offsets to tags in the skeleton the same way kindlegen does. Also linearize non linear ToCs to ensure section to section jumping works.
    Conversion pipeline: Use correct default value of 'inherit' for font-family and font-size when normalizing the shorthand font property.
    When running python scripts via calibre-debug ensure that user plugins are loaded

New news sources

    Attac.es by Marc Busque
    Drytooling.com by Damian Granowski
    Shortlist.com by Dave ASbury
    National Geographic (es) by vakya

Improved news sources

    Business Week Magazine
    Metro Nieuws NL

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

New Features

    E-book viewer: The Table of contents panel now tracks the current position in the book. As you scroll through the book, the entry you are currently on is highlighted.

    To see this feature in action, open the Table of Contents panel in the viewer by clicking the button with three blue lines on it. As you page through the book, the chapter you are reading currently is highlighted in the Table of Contents Panel. Obviously, this will only work if the book you are reading has a Table of Contents. You can also use the Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn keys to quickly skip between chapters.
    calibredb: Allow setting metadata for individual fields with the set_metadata command
    Make it a little harder to accidentally change the sorting of items in the Tag Browser. Also frees up more vertical space for the Tag Browser itself.
    The calibre user manual is now available in AZW3 format as well as EPUB

Bug Fixes

    Automatic titlecasing: No longer try to capitalize scottish names, as there are too many special cases.

    Closes tickets: 775825 [External link]
    Never crash when reading metadata from PDF files (reading now always happens in a worker process)

    Closes tickets: 1006452 [External link]
    EPUB Input: Do no skip the valid children of an NCX node that has no text/href
    Archos driver: Detect SD card

    Closes tickets: 1005650 [External link]
    When bulk downloading metadata and the user deletes one of the books for which metadata is being downloaded, just ignore it, instead of erroring out
    When deleting books from the bottom of the booklist, ensure that the bottom book after deleting is selected
    Fix regression in 0.8.53 that broke sending APNX files to older Kindle devices
    Use correct text color for selected rows in the list of matches when downloading metadata and showing results in get books.

    Closes tickets: 1004568 [External link]

New news sources

    La gazetta del Mezzogiorno by faber1971

Improved news sources

    The Independent
    Welt der Physik
    China Daily
    The Grid
    Prospect Magazine

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[SiLæncer]

What's new: >>

New features:

    Add a new 'Calibre style' interface look that is more modern than the default look. You can select it via Preferences->Look & Feel->User interface style.
    New, subtler look for the Tag Browser.
    Driver for Trekstor Pyrus and Pantech Android Tablet.
    Conversion pipeline: Handle guide elements with incorrectly cased hrefs. Also handle guide elements of type coverimagestandard and thumbimagestandard.
    Allow user to customize trekstor plugin to send books into sub directories.
    EPUB Input: Add support for EPUB files that use the IDPF font obfuscation algorithm. Apparently, people have started producing these now.
    Save single format to disk: Only show the format available in the selected books

Bug fixes:

    MOBI Output: When using the insert metadata at start of book option, do not use a table to layout the metadata, as the Kindle Fire crashes when rendering the table.
    Device detection: Fix a bug that could cause device detection to fail completely if devices with certain vendor/product ids are connected.
    MOBI Output: When rasterizing svgs only compute style information when an actual svg image is present. Small speedup when converting large svg-free documents to MOBI.
    SONY T1 driver: Fix support for collections of books placed on the SD card.
    Fix partitioning problems in tag browser with fields that have no name, such as identifiers and formats.
    Welcome wizard: Preferentially use the kindle email address set as default when more than one such address exists.
    Fix regression in 0.8.54 that broke the use of the shortcut Alt+A to select books by the same author.

New news sources:

    Various Philippine news sources
    Natemat.pl and wirtualnemedia.pl
    Rabble.ca

Improved news sources:

    Various Polish recipes
    Vice Magazine
    EL Mundo Today
    Haaretz
    Good Housekeeping
    El Pais
    Christian Science Monitor
    Marketing Magazine
    Instapaper

http://calibre-ebook.com/download