Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New Features

    Quick view window: Allow the quickview window to be docked into the main calibre window.

    Closes tickets: 1415714
    Add empty book: Allow setting the title as well as the author and series for the added empty book records
    Windows driver for Grammata Papyre 602.

    Closes tickets: 1418207
    Edit Book: Add an option to turn off auto-completion of closing tags
    Allow adding a description for custom columns.

    Closes tickets: 1417219
    Book Details panel: Allow any identifier of the form url+number to become a clickable link. For example: url1:http://example.com

Bug Fixes

    Conversion: Convert entities that reference non-BMP unicode codepoints on Windows and OS X correctly. Linux was not affected by this bug.

    Closes tickets: 1417327
    Edit Book: Do not autocomplete the closing tag wen typing the / key inside an existing tag.

    Closes tickets: 1417700
    Fix Booken Lev e-book reader not being detected in OS X and Linux.

    Closes tickets: 1417325
    DOCX Input: Change handling of sequences of space characters to more closely follow Microsoft Word.
    Edit Book: Fix Table of Contents editor not remembering its saved state across calibre sessions
    Edit book: Disallow drag and drop of documents onto the preview panel to workaround crashing bug in Qt.

    Closes tickets: 1416752
    E-book viewer: Fix current page not being preserved when opening and then immediately closing the footnote window.

    Closes tickets: 1416526
    PDF Output: Fix incorrect encoding for some chinese characters in the PDF Outline (Table of Contents)

    Closes tickets: 1416222

Improved news sources

    FAZ.net
    Indian Express
    CNN

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    ODT Input: Add backlinks for footnotes/endnotes and improve their formatting.

    Closes tickets: 1421056
    Windows: When running on windows 8 and newer register with default programs so that users can more easily select calibre or its viewer/editor as the default program to launch ebook files.

    Closes tickets: 1422248
    Make publishers in the book details panel clickable.

    Closes tickets: 1419313
    Edit Book spell check: For mis-spelled words of the form one:two offer one: two as a suggested correction.

    Closes tickets: 1422133

Bug Fixes

    Fix a regression that caused incorrect results when searching on numeric or date fields with relational operators.

    Closes tickets: 1423390
    DOCX Input: Fix regression in 2.19 that broke handling of text with leading or trailing non-breaking spaces/en-spaces/quad-spaces.

    Closes tickets: 1422844
    Amazon metadata download: Update plugin for website changes to Amazon Brazil.

    Closes tickets: 1420629
    E-book viewer: Fix footnote popup window not displaying entire footnote if footnote contains element with page-break-after set
    Edit Book: Reports tool: Fix double clicking on an unused image causing an error
    Tag Browser: Fix incorrect grouping of words starting with graphemes, such as ash.

    Closes tickets: 1422116
    Conversion: Ignore incorrectly URL encoded links instead of erroring out on them.

    Closes tickets: 1421996
    E-book viewer: Remove soft-hyphens when copying text to clipboard

Improved news sources

    aktualne.cz

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    Allow opening ebook files and covers in external applications by simply right clicking on them in the Book Details panel.

    Now, you can right click on an ebook format or the cover in the Book Details panel, and open it with any application installed on your computer. calibre will automatically present you with a list of application capable of opening the file. Simply choose one, or if your particular application is not auto-detected, you can browse for it manually.
    Tag Browser: Make rename and delete for items in the Tag Browser restrict themselves to the current Virtual Library (if any). There is also an additional menu entry you can use to rename and delete across all books while in a Virtual Library.
    Conversion: Use a new (written from scratch) implementation of CSS Level 3 selectors that fixes various bugs in handling of the more advanced/uncommon CSS selectors such as nth-last-child()
    Edit Book: Allow restoring of disabled confirmation prompts in preferences and add a confirmation when removing saved searches
    Edit ToC button: Remember the last used ebook formats

Bug Fixes

    E-book viewer: Fix regression that prevented pasting of text with formatting from the viewer.

    Closes tickets: 1428018
    Table of Contents Editor: Fix selecting a location inside a file and then clicking on another file causes the previous location to be used in the new file.

    Closes tickets: 1428212
    DOCX Input: Fix incorrect bold font weight being used for heading styles even if the style definition does not specify bold.

    Closes tickets: 1430831
    AZW3 Input: Fix a bug that prevented conversion of AZW3 files that contained an empty CSS media block.

    Closes tickets: 1426220
    PDF Output: Fix incorrect rendering of text in elements that use font-variant:small-caps and also have children.

    Closes tickets: 1425094
    Get Books: Update Amazon Europe, Empik and CDP store plugins
    PDF Output: Fix incorrect conversion of source document that specify dir='rtl' on the root element.

    Closes tickets: 1429292
    PDF Output: Ignore unparseable links instead of aborting the conversion on them.

    Closes tickets: 1429282
    Fix reading metadata from filenames tester not working for dates before 1900.

    Closes tickets: 1424607
    Linux binary install: Fix SSL CA certificates not being detected on Fedora based distributions
    Books list: Fix column alignment incorrectly propagating when changing libraries
    FB2 Input: Do not put a border around images
    Fixes for various incompatibilities with (Py)Qt 5.4.1 which is used by some calibre distro packages on linux
    Fix error when running calibredb backup_metadata on a library that contains book records with no path information
    Edit Book: Fix extra search being hidden when removing a saved search
    Fix a regression in 2.20 that prevented some changes to per-library preferences from being saved
    Linux installer: Do not register application/octet-stream as one of the mimetypes calibre can handle

New news sources

    Pando Daily by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    Spektrum der Wissenschaft
    New Musical Express
    The Daily Mirror

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

Book List: When editing data in the book list directly, expand the editor widget to use all available width if the data does not fit inside the current column width
Edit Book: When re-opening a previously edited book, restore all open files and the cursor position. Can be disabled in Preferences->Main Window
Advanced search builder: Allow using days/weeks/months/years when building a date based search with number of days ago.
Closes tickets: 1431695

Amazon metadata download: Speedup metadata download from amazon.com when an ASIN is specified by trying the product page directly first instead of running a search.
Implement updating metadata in DOCX files

Bug Fixes

ODT Input: Add support for intra-document cross-references.
Closes tickets: 1429271

PDF Output: Fix incorrect encoding of ASCII control characters and some Chines characters in metadata and Table of Contents strings.
Closes tickets: 1433848

Amazon metadata download: Work around amazon server problems where it does not return Kindle Editions in search results when not logged in.
Closes tickets: 1433125

Fix Manage Authors dialog causing current search in the book list to be cleared.
Closes tickets: 1432324

Conversion: Fix a regression in 2.21 that caused conversion to fail for books with invalid pseudo-class CSS selectors.
Closes tickets: 1432267

Content server: Fix OPDS categories not showing books for composite column categories if the column contains a colon.
Single convert dialog: Only write metadata updates if metadata actually changed. Also show a nicer error message when a file is locked by another process.
Open With: Fix error when scanning for default programs on windows for some file types
Edit Book: Fix Preview panel sometimes not working when opening multiple html files one after the other very quickly

Improved news sources

Wired Daily

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

Fix text resource not alwalys saving to disk
Fix bug in missing CSS
Fix create html toc crash bug
Update some links in the help menu

Download -> Klick

https://github.com/user-none/Sigil

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New Features:

Allow adding an empty ebook in various formats to existing book records by right clicking the Add Books button
Add ability to create additional empty formats to the 'Add empty book' command
News download: Add API to cleanly abort the download of an article during the preprocess stage based on the article's contents.
Update the version of Qt bundled with calibre to 5.4.1. This fixes various minor bugs, most notably, improving text rendering on linux.

Bug Fixes:

MOBI Input: Fix links not working in viewer for MOBI files that contain anchors placed on linebreak elements.
Book details panel: Fix copying Path link by right clicking on it not working.
Fix a regression that caused importing of a single book from a directory to fail if the directory has no ebook files in it
Column Icons: Fix apostrophes in icon filenames causing errors.
Edit Book: Fix a regression that caused Remove unused CSS to fail on invalid CSS selectors, instead of ignoring them
Open With: Fix open with failing to get list of default programs on windows if the registry contains missing ProgIDs.

Improved news sources:

Esquire
Courrier International
CNET
Tagesschau

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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TEBookConverter is an easy to use ebook converter that uses Calibre. It helps you convert your eBooks to other formats. The application can convert several documents and eBooks at once, thanks to its multi-threaded processing.

License : GPL

Whats new: >>

-Added: Greek translation
-Updated: Calibre to 2.23

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tebookconverter/

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New Features:

E-book viewer: Add an option to not save the bookmarks inside EPUB files, under the Miscellaneous section of the viewer preferences
Manage User Categories: Allow restricting the visible items to only those present in the current Virtual Library (if any)
Book details panel: Allow copying full path to ebook files by right clicking on the format link.

Bug Fixes:

Edit Book: Fix GIF format images being corrupted when using the builtin image editor to make changes to them.
Edit Book: When dragging and dropping files to re-order them in the file browser, fix the final order being dependent on the order the files were selected in.
Conversion: Fix error when converting a document that contains an invalid function based CSS selector without parentheses.
Edit Book: Fix regression that caused pressing Alt+X to type unicode characters to not work
Device view: Preserve position in list of books when deleting books from the device view
Make the context menu for the book details popup window work the same way as for the book details panel
Get Books: Update amazon store plugin for website changes
PDF Metadata: When choosing between reading metadata from the Info dict and the XMP block, consider both the MetadataData and the ModifyDate in the XMP block, since there exist PDF metadata writing tools that update one and not the other.
Fix a regression that caused ebook viewer to remember the state of the Table of Contents panel when quitting on OS X.
Prevent Enter key on Manage authors/tags/etc. dialogs from closing the dialog.

Improved news sources:

Le Temps
United Daily
Liberty Times
Apple Daily
China Times
House News
Providence Journal
Harvard Business Review

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

    - Fix for crash during merging xhtml files.
    - Changed fix for "Create TOC crash in Sigil 0.8.5" to reduce the degree
      of disconnecting to prevent lost signals on html resources.
    - Fix for missing audio and video mime types in OPFResource  and
      FolderKeeper.
    - Attempt to prevent Tidy from simply deleting all mathml during cleaning.

Download -> Klick

https://github.com/user-none/Sigil

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New Features

    Edit Book: Make embedding fonts using the manage fonts dialog easier. You can now double click on a font family to see what faces for that family area available on your computer and install new fonts directly from the dialog.
    Book Details panel: Allow deleting tags/series/publisher/etc. by right clicking on the link in the book details panel.

    Closes tickets: 1442925
    E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents view by right clicking
    When using the View specific format action add an 'Open With' button to choose a specific program to view the specified format
    Fetch News: Add API to allow recipe writers to easily resolve internal links to point to the downloaded versions of articles
    DOCX Input: Add support for DOCX files created by Word 2013 in 'Strict' mode
    When getting cover from comic files, use smart filename sorting to find the first filename, recognizing numbers inside the filenames.

Bug Fixes

    E-book viewer: When displaying multiple pages per screen fix whole screen scrolling so that it works as expected even at the end of the file, when their might be fewer pages left than would fill the screen.
    DOCX Input: Automatically resize large images used as bullets in lists, to compensate for the fact that HTML renderers do not do this.
    Book list: Prevent yes/no columns from making the minimum row height too large.
    Template language: Fix raw_field() function returning incorrect values for lists
    Edit book: Fix book locale changing when OPF edited if OPF contains a country code in addition to a language code
    Edit Book: Fix escaped HTML tags in the comments metadata being reported as mis-spelled words.

    Closes tickets: 1441925
    Edit Book: Fix regression that caused copying of non-breaking spaces to not work when using the keyboard shortcuts
    Open With: Fix open with not working for programs from the Microsoft Office suite

New news sources

    MIT Technology Review Magazine by Michael Marotta
    The Codeless Code by April King

Improved news sources

    Die Zeit
    NZZ Webpaper
    Arcamax

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    Driver for the soon to be released Kobo Glo HD

Bug Fixes

    Do not use a separate process to draw the splash screen. This might fix the issue of calibre randomly freezing on startup on a few windows systems
    MOBI Ouput: Fix :first-letter applied to elements containing a comment causing conversion to fail
    Properly display names of libraries containing the ampersand character.

    Closes tickets: 1447188
    When sorting filenames in comics treat the file extension as a secondary sort key. Fixes xyz.jpg sorting before xyz_1.jpg
    Fix a regression in 2.25 that broke the search & replace wizard in the conversion dialog when converting a book with multiple formats
    Content server: Fix errors when library contains enough virtual libraries to cause grouping.

    Closes tickets: 1446282
    Manage tags dialog: Fix setting a tag to empty causes an unhandled error.

    Closes tickets: 1446318
    E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused the viewer to occasionally skip the last page in a chapter when displaying more than one pages per screen and scrolling by screen
    Edit Book: Fix open OPF file not being refreshed when deleting items from the file browser.

    Closes tickets: 1445634

New news sources

    Discover Magazine Monthly by Michael Marotta

Improved news sources

    WirtschaftsWoche Online
    Wired
    CNN

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

Edit metadata dialog: Add a clear button for the publisher.
Closes tickets: 1449105

DOCX Input: Add option to not insert page breaks between endnotes.
Closes tickets: 1448433

calibredb list: Allow outputting the book languages as well.
Closes tickets: 1445853

Italian translation of Quick Start Guide
Embed metadata: When embedding metadata fails for some books, add an option to show the failed books in the book list
Closes tickets: 1449076

Animate the main toolbar when a device is connected/disconnected, to indicate that the contents of the toolbar have changed

Bug Fixes

E-book viewer: When printing, print to a PDF file instead of directly to the printer. This fixes printing not working on some systems.
Closes tickets: 1448330

AZW3 Input: Handle kindlegen produced azw3 files that do not use normal HTML anchors for linking.
Fix too many open files errors that could occur in a few places on OS X
Do not allow user to hide all columns in book list via the context menu, as restoring them becomes difficult

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

Latest Changes

German GUI translation improved

http://icecreamapps.com/Ebook-Reader/

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New Features

Conversion of all ebook formats to Microsoft Word (DOCX) files
Supports conversion of text styles, images, lists, tables, embedded fonts, etc. Produces DOCX files compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer. Note that this code is very new, so there will likely still be kinks that will be worked out in the coming weeks.

Add keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Right, Ctrl+Left) to switch between virtual library tabs.
Closes tickets: 1453497

When sending email using GMX pause for five minutes between books, to prevent GMX from blocking the account. The delay can be configured via Preferences->Tweaks

Bug Fixes

Open With: Fix application icons in XDG_DATA_HOME on linux not being found and fix unhandled error when choosing non-executable files as applications.
AZW3 Output: Remove duplicate anchors to workaround some Kindle renderers using the last occurrence of an anchor as the target instead of the first.
Closes tickets: 1454199

Fix language definition on body tag being ignored during conversion
Edit book: When importing multiple files into the book, import them in the order sorted by their filenames instead of in random order
E-book viewer: Fix print to pdf not working on some windows systems with non-ascii usernames and non-utf-8 system locales. Also make the print to pdf dialog a little easier to use.
Edit Book: Fix TOC editor window not remembering its last used size

Improved news sources

Field and Stream
Linux Magazine
Brand Eins
Courrier International
Wired Magazine
The Onion

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    Allow opening the full Tag Editor dialog directly from the book list by holding down the Shift key while starting an edit of a tag-like field. For example, click on the tags field for a book and press Shift-F2
    Tag Browser: Allow undoing the deletion of items in the Manage categories window
    calibredb add: Allow setting arbitrary identifiers, not just ISBN.

    Closes tickets: 1458620
    Add a 'Retry' button to the news download failed error message.

    Closes tickets: 1458076

Bug Fixes

    DOCX Output: Detect the common idiom of placing centered images as inline images inside a containing centered block and render the resulting image as a floating centered image in the DOCX file.

    Closes tickets: 1455502
    DOCX Output: Fix incorrect handling of bold/italic in paragraphs where the majority of text is either bold or italic instead of normal
    Table of Contents editor: Fix save/load of settings in the XPath wizard not working across restarts
    Get Books: Update the Kobo Store plugin for website changes

Improved news sources

    Popular Science
    General Knowledge Today
    Scientific American
    Wired Magazine

http://calibre-ebook.com/