Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New features

Server: Add a new ‘custom’ mode for the book list, where you can specify exactly what metadata fields are displayed, via a template (see Preferences->Sharing over the net->Book list template)
Speed up HTML parsing by an order of magnitude, by switching from html5lib to html5-parser
Add support for touch screens to the main calibre book list. You can now flick to scroll, tap to select and double-tap to view books.
Server: Add an option to ban IP addresses if there are too many failed login attempts
calibre-debug: Change the –explode-book action to only create the exploded directory and not rebuild the file. Add a new –implode-book action to rebuild the file, separately.
Book details panel: Add Manage authors/series/tags/etc. to the menu when right clicking on the item
Kobo driver: Update for new firmware

Bug fixes

PDF Output: Fix a regression in 2.82 that caused conversion of comics to PDF files to have successive images become smaller and smaller in some circumstances.Closes tickets: 1706814
PDF Output: Fix a regression in 2.83 that caused occasional blank pages at the end of chapters when using headers/footers.Closes tickets: 1706484
Get books: Update store plugins for ebook.nl and the various amazon websites
Edit book: Hide editor toolbars if they are empty.Closes tickets: 1706343
Server: Fix failed login attempts using digest auth not being logged to the main log
Quickview: for non-text fields, sort on native values instead of text.
Fix hidden search bar state not being restored on calibre restart.Closes tickets: 1705916
Fix option to not save cover separately when using Save to disk not working.Closes tickets: 1704925
Server: Fix an error on browsers that do not support blob storage in IndexedDB.Closes tickets: 1704912
Comic input: Fix a bug in the normalize image filter that caused a crash when converting comics that contain a page with only a single color.Closes tickets: 1704778
Edit Book: Handle non-normalized unicode characters in file names betterCloses tickets: 1704225

Improved news sources

Mediapart
New Yorker
Boston Globe
Private Eye

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Windows XP support fixed
Minor bug fixes

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New features

    Linux: Use native file dialogs via zenity or kdialog, if available
    Copy to library: Add an action to show a dialog that allows for easy selection of libraries for copy/move. Useful when there are a large number of libraries to choose from.

    Closes tickets: 1706198
    Server: Allow deleting a downloaded book from the "Browse all downloaded books" screen

Bug fixes

    Hopefully fix an issue with the book list jumping around when using the mouse on some computers
    E-book viewer: Change the default fonts on windows to the Liberation font family. This matches the other platforms and avoids rendering issues with Times New Roman.

    Closes tickets: 1706491
    DOCX Output: Convert images placed by themselves inside block tags as block images rather than inline images.

    Closes tickets: 1707430
    Fix a typo that broke the download of a few news sources
    ebook-viewer.exe: Fix --continue-reading not working
    Fix non XML safe characters in feed descriptions causing news download to fail.

    Closes tickets: 1707545
    Browser viewer: Fix books that contain broken links with unicode characters in their paths not working.

    Closes tickets: 1704498
    Quickview: Fix regression in previous release that broke the 'Lock quickview' control

New news sources

    Various Sardinian news by tzium

Improved news sources

    Navy Times

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Windows XP additional fix

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New features

    Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new 'vl:' prefix
    Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download buttons.

    Closes tickets: 1708762
    Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size from 150px to 105px
    Narrow layout: Fix wasted space to the left of the comments in the Book details panel

Bug fixes

    Server: Fix downloading files via the list of formats not working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS
    Browser viewer: Fix controls help overlay not being displayed the first time the viewer is used
    MOBI Output: Fix a regression causing a crash for some input documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties.

    Closes tickets: 1711776
    DOCX Input: Fix framed lists being rendered with the frame inside the bullets instead of outside it.

    Closes tickets: 1709569
    Fix a regression that could cause conversion to crash when using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX.

    Closes tickets: 1711224
    Conversion: Fix remove first image option not working for comic input with the disable comic processing option.

    Closes tickets: 1709150
    Server: Fix tooltip not working in the cover grid view.

    Closes tickets: 1708760
    Workaround for Qt bug that prevented using the shift and ctrl keys with the touchscreen
    Linux: fix native KDE file dialog not working on older systems
    Linux: Fix KDE dialogs not supporting multiple file name filter groups
    Fix libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather than just library name
    Server: Allow hyphens in user names
    calibredb.exe: Fix misleading error message when connecting to a server with incorrect username or password

New news sources

    Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks by fenuks
    IDPixel and The Insider by bugmen00t

Improved news sources

    Asian review of Books
    Financial Times
    National Post
    Go Comics

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Whats new:>>

Version number added in Settings
Minor fixes

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New features

    Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an action to set metadata from e-book files.

    Closes tickets: 1717755
    Server: Add an option to control the number of books displayed per page in the browser (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Advanced).

    Closes tickets: 1715283
    DOCX Output: Add an option to preserve the cover aspect ratio in the output document.

    Closes tickets: 1715800
    Book details panel: An option to control the layout of the panel in 'Narrow' mode (Preferences->Look & feel->Book details)

    Closes tickets: 1714613
    If the --start-in-tray option is specified, create a tray icon even if the configuration option to enable tray icons is off.

Bug fixes

    Possible fix for issue with pinning calibre to taskbar on windows. Note that as an unfortunate side-effect, you will have to unpin and re-pin calibre to the taskbar after updating.
    DOCX Output: Fix text immediately after a hidden tag not being included.

    Closes tickets: 1717403
    Fix a regression that broke fetching of metadata from Douban
    Cover grid: Fix Shift+arrow keys to manipulate selection not working.

    Closes tickets: 1717828
    Editor snippets: Dont lose the last selected word when the user triggers a non-existent snippet.

    Closes tickets: 1713244
    Book details popup window: Show the cover size in the bottom right corner if the option to show cover size in the Book details panel is set.

    Closes tickets: 1716520
    Linux: Fix regression that broke using calibre on some older VNC servers
    Browser viewer: Do not fail if the book contains javascript that has errors.

    Closes tickets: 1715781
    Linux: Fix file open dialog on older KDE desktops not working correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1715648
    Update Ozon.ru metadata plugin for website changes.

    Closes tickets: 1715347
    LIT Input: Fix a buffer overflow caused by malformed LIT files.

    Closes tickets: 1713716
    Conversion: Expand -epub-writing-mode to -webkit-writing-mode and writing-mode properties for maximum compatibility.

    Closes tickets: 1713509
    Linux: Fix SONY PRS-650 not being detected

New news sources

    Dunya Halleri by Sukru Alatas

Improved news sources

    The Hindu
    Le Monde
    Wired Monthly
    Cracked.com
    Carta
    FAZ.NET
    Newsweek
    Financial Times

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    Remove the Connect to iTunes function since Apple has removed that functionality from iTunes

    Now you have to use one of the wireless connection methods to connect to an iPad/iPhone, as described at: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#how-do-i-use-calibre-with-my-ipad-iphone-ipod-touch
    Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
    Allow changing the icons in yes/no columns via column icon rules.

    Closes tickets: 1721374
    Quickview panel: Add a context menu with a "View" action to the book table.
    Make the elapsed time display in the jobs dialog more human friendly.

    Closes tickets: 1719059

Bug fixes

    EPUB Input: Fix styles in existing titlepage not being flattened when the titlepage is preserved during conversion.

    Closes tickets: 1720715
    Fix conversion of grayscale JPEG-XR images not working

    Closes tickets: 1720638
    Update the douban metadata download plugin to match changes to the website
    DOCX Output: Fix the preserve cover aspect ratio option not visible

    Closes tickets: 1719026

Improved news sources

    Respekt Magazine
    Associated Press
    Heraldo de Aragon
    El Correo
    El Periodico de Aragon
    A List Apart

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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IceCream Ebook Reader is the answer to your ebook management prayers. If you have lots of ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CBZ, CBR and PDF formats piled up on your hard drive, feel free to use this program to store, manage and read them in a fuss-free way. The program allows you to easily add the books to the library, view them in a form of a chart or book shelf with detailed information about the file, filter books by different categories for easy search, and read them on your PC.

Freeware

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Book covers display improvements

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New features

    Browser viewer: Show footnotes in a popup window. Similar to the popup footnote functionality in the calibre viewer.
    Content server: Add an option to control the timeout for making AJAX queries to the server.

    Closes tickets: 1722016

Bug fixes

    Fix regression that broke Preferences->Conversion->Common options in version 3.9
    Server: Fix adding expressions to the search always using AND instead of respecting the setting to use OR or AND.

    Closes tickets: 1724405
    Browser viewer: Fix a regression that caused loading more than one book in the same session or using the back/forward browser buttons to require refreshing the browser.
    Jobs list: Fix killing of job killing the wrong job if other jobs are completed while waiting for kill confirmation.
    DOCX Output: Fix preserve cover aspect ratio option still distorting the aspect ratio slightly.

    Closes tickets: 1721864

Improved news sources

    Lomza
    Go Comics
    Various Polish news sources

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    Kindle driver: Add support for the new Kindle Oasis
    Browser viewer: Allow the user to specify a CSS style sheet to control the look and feel of the text
    Edit book spell check: In the list of suggestions show the original word in italics.

    Closes tickets: 1727827
    Edit Book: When adding a new HTML file, add it after the file being currently edited instead of at the end.

    Closes tickets: 1728601
    Column coloring: Add a contains rule type.

    Closes tickets: 1728464
    Book details panel: Allow saving the displayed cover to disk via the right click context menu.

    Closes tickets: 1728251

Bug fixes

    Browser viewer: Fix font size and color scheme settings not being respected in the footnote popup
    DOCX Output: Fix comments/XML processing instructions in the middle of text causing text to be skipped.

    Closes tickets: 1727599
    Book details panel: Fix metadata field titles not being top aligned
    Linux: Fix long startup delay on systems that do not have a desktop notification service running

Improved news sources

    Financial Times
    computerworld.pl
    Tulsa World
    Science Daily
    El Mundo

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New features

    Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3

    Closes tickets: 1731024
    Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the popup book details window. To configure, simply click the 'Configure' link at the bottom of the window.
    Wireless driver: Allow specifying extra file formats (unknown to calibre) to send

Bug fixes

    Fix a regression that caused clicking the clear button in the main search bar to not unapply the current search until enter is pressed.
    Linux: Fix a regression causing calibre to fail to start on systems with no DBUS session bus
    Browser viewer: Fix body font being forced to sans-serif, overriding in book and user stylesheet settings
    Fix sending email failing of the computer's FQDN is set to a single period.

    Closes tickets: 1730166

Improved news sources

    New Yorker
    Geopolityka

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New features

    Driver for the new Bq Cervantes 4
    Edit book: Auto-generate links to existing stylesheets when adding a new HTML file.

    Closes tickets: 1733845
    Add a button to easily clear server logs in Preferences->Sharing over the net->Show server logs.

    Closes tickets: 1730046
    Catalog generation: Store the list of fields to be used in generating CSV/XML catalogs per library.

    Closes tickets: 1730500
    Bulk metadata edit: Make the custom series controls similar to the builtin series ones, with the same set of features
    Edit book: Pre-select existing cover image (if any) in add cover dialog
    Make the Manage saved searches dialog a little easier for new users.

    Closes tickets: 1733163
    Add a tweak to control behavior of Enter on the book list
    Content server: Fix random book button on book details page multiplying.

    Closes tickets: 1732493
    Edit Book: Bulk file rename dialog: Remember last used prefix for renaming files

Bug fixes

    Tag browser: Fix use of the tweak to control order of items in the Tag browser causing unexpected expansion of items after editing metadata.

    Closes tickets: 1730245
    Content server: Improve rendering of tags/categories with long words on small screens.

    Closes tickets: 1734119
    Fix first added saved search not appearing in Tag browser until calibre restart.

    Closes tickets: 1733151
    When checking added books for duplicates, also check on the language field. So books with the same title/authors but different languages are not considered duplicates.
    Edit Book: Spell check should not fail if there are non-HTML files in the spine
    Conversion: Fix an error when using the embed_all_fonts option with certain books
    Save to disk: Dont error out if the user deletes all formats to be saved.
    Linux binary: Fix calibre not starting on systems where QT_QPA_PLATFORM is set to use wayland

New news sources

    Various Russian news source by bugmen00t

Improved news sources

    The Economist
    The Walrun Magazine
    China Daily
    Telepolis

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    User manual: A new quick reference primer for regular expression syntax https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/regexp_quick_reference.html
    Content server: Allow viewing the book metadata while reading a book. In the viewer controls, tap Goto and then Metadata to see the metadata.

    Closes tickets: 1736312
    Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
    Bulk metadata edit: Allow choosing the algorithm used for changing the case of titles
    Get books: The koobe.pl store plugin has now become the Swiat Ebookow store plugin
    Allow Copy/paste of book metadata from the main book list. Right click the Edit metadata button to access these actions.
    Allow disabling the confirmation popup when opening the containing folder of many books at once.

    Closes tickets: 1735862

Bug fixes

    Nook driver: Fix books sent via calibre not appearing under My Files on the Glowlight 3 Plus
    Get Books: Update Mills & Boon, publio, empik, legimi, woblink and beam-ebooks.de plugins for website changes
    Book polishing: Do not scan book for font usage when subsetting if no embedded fonts are available.

    Closes tickets: 1737400
    Content server: Open links in the comments section from the book details page in new windows.

    Closes tickets: 1737644
    Choose English as the User interface language when a locale related environment variable is set to the C locale
    Linux installer: A nicer error message if the user tries to run the installer on an ARM machine

New news sources

    El Cohete a la luna by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    Boston Globe
    The Times
    Economist

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Sigil is an advanced ebook editor that provides users with comprehensive options and configuration settings. It offers support for HTML, XHTML, TXT, image and video files, and it comes wrapped in a user-friendly interface that puts emphasis on simplicity. It is capable of generating ePub files.

License: GPLv3

Changelog

Bug Fixes:

Add python_3.5_fixes3.patch to Python build and update build docs on OSX to fix missing symbols
Fix crash caused by Preview holding pointer to user removed resource when front tab is non-html resource
Fix crash in FlowTab destructor due to re-entering flowtab during Syntax Highlighting and signals
Fix issue with file icons disappearing when reordering in Book Browser (commit ecb56b1f)
Fix missing epub3 Manifest cover-image property setting/unsetting with BookBrowser
Fix issue where cancelling the SaveAs dialog disconnected an existing epub from its saved path
Fix assertion error in sigil-gumbo when handling extraneous script end tags
Apply multiple fixes for gumbo from upstream
Fix segfault in Split at Cursor when not an html file
Make sure Add Cover tool properly handles existing manifest cover properties in EPUB3s
Correct error dialog to say "Sigil may need to close."
Prevent Images and Misc items from being dragged to the Text folder in Book Browser (commit 30bb96d)
Fix Linux bug that prevents rich text from other programs being pasted into Book View (issue #320)
Fix bug where index entries inside em and dfn tags were ignored during index generation
Fix bug on Windows in spell checking when smart right single quotes are used for apostrophes
Fix bug in simple well-formed check to handle generic xml processing instructions
Fix bug in epub3 MetaEditor with title-type and collection-type properties
Fix plugin code to prevent book href vs manifest id clashes
Fix bug in Plugin Runner to allow it to delete non-manifested files properly
Fix bug in SourceUpdates to handle properly handle css properties with multiple urls
Fix bugs in well-formed check to better handle missing doctypes

New Features:

Add SIGIL_DISABLE_CURSOR_BLINK environment variable to disable text cursor to aid Accessibility on OSX
Better use semantic information (guide types and Landmarks) to allow the user finer control of index generation
Attempt to improve Metadata Editor placeholder text to help beginners
Preview Window Title bar will now show height and width of the Preview Window
Allow users to limit/disable clipboard history saving via General Preferences
Convert br tags in header text to linebreaks for toc/ncx/nav generation routines
Support spell checking of words with numbers controlled by Preference settings
Add two additional Quick Lauch Icons for Plugins

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