Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New features

    Happy holidays to all calibre users!
    E-book Viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+F)
    Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).

    Closes tickets: 1908929
    Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.

    Closes tickets: 1907410
    Content server viewer: Don't enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
    E-book Viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
    Template/formatter enhancements: Add a 'for' statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
    Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode

    Closes tickets: 1907919, 1907918

Bug fixes

    Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS
    E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode

    Closes tickets: 1908000
    AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working.

    Closes tickets: 1898394
    E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format

    Closes tickets: 1907907
    Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books
    PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
    Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the automatic or Google servers because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.
    Version 5.8.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer.

    Closes tickets: 1909217, 1909197

New news sources

    SchwarzerPfeil by tastytea
    Substack by topynate

Improved news sources

    The Australian
    The Atlantic
    Zerohedge
    New York Times Book Review

https://calibre-ebook.com

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A straightforward and highly intuitive Epub reader that allows you to open your e-books, as well as import and export annotations.

License: AGPL

https://github.com/xianmin/EveReader

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New features

    Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location
    Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights

    Closes tickets: 1909529
    Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder

    Closes tickets: 1909339
    Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns

    Closes tickets: 1909258

Bug fixes

    Fix a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client closed a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.
    LRF Output: Fix conversion broken in calibre 5 when font size rescaling is active

    Closes tickets: 1909224
    E-book viewer: Cancel any speech in progress when hiding the selection popup bar after triggering the speak aloud action on it
    Color/icon rules editor: Fix duplicate rule button not working correctly

    Closes tickets: 1909332
    Fix dropping files onto book details causing an error if the confirmation dialog is disabled

    Closes tickets: 1909291

New news sources

    Mallorca Zeitung by VoHegg
    T-Online by VoHegg
    El Diario by Dirk Gómez

Improved news sources

    General Knowledge Today
    El Pais
    USA Today
    WirtchaftsWoche Online
    The Guardian
    Arcamax
    Miami Herald
    The Seattle Times

https://calibre-ebook.com

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New features

    Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books

    Closes tickets: 1911888
    Add support for the CB7 comic file file format

    Closes tickets: 1912212
    E-book viewer: Allow adding a button to the selection bar that copies thecurrently selected text along with a calibre:// URL to show the text in the book

    Closes tickets: 1912070
    Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow showing identifiers such as ISBN in the jacket page template
    Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow hiding entries in the jacket template when they are not present in the metadata
    calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help

    Closes tickets: 1912337
    E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard

    Closes tickets: 1912070
    E-book viewer: Highlight all currently visible Table of Contents entries, not just the first

    Closes tickets: 1912003
    Add a new tweak under Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognizecommon surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names.

Bug fixes

    E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode

    Closes tickets: 1911470
    E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth

    Closes tickets: 1911218
    PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes

    Closes tickets: 1911466
    Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed

    Closes tickets: 1904350
    Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
    E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
    E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format.
    Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
    calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file

Improved news sources

    Jacobin
    Japan Times
    The Wall Street Journal
    Mediapart

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Whats new:>>

5.10.1 fixes a regression in 5.10.0 that broke conversion when including metadata as a jacket page and using long text custom columns

https://calibre-ebook.com

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New features

    E-book viewer: When searching start the search from the current position, jumping to the first match at or after the current page

    Closes tickets: 1915773
    E-book viewer: Have the Table of Contents view automatically scroll to keep the chapter being read currently visible

    Closes tickets: 1916411
    Various improvements to the calibre template language, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573
    Edit book: File browser: Show total size of items in category when hovering over category with mouse
    Kobo driver: Add support for latest firmware and also an option to choose the color used for cover letterboxing

Bug fixes

    E-book viewer: Fix selection popup bar sometimes going off screen when dragging up to the top line of text

    Closes tickets: 1915685
    Get books: Update the Biblio and Chitanka stores for website changes
    Edit book: Fix editing of JavaScript files not working

    Closes tickets: 1915770

Improved news sources

    Slate
    Harper's Magazine

https://calibre-ebook.com

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New features

    E-book Viewer: Allow editing the current book by pressing Ctrl+d or adding a button for it to the viewer tool bar

    Closes tickets: 1917967
    Edit book: Add a command line flag to allow selecting the specified text when opening a book
    Edit metadata dialog: When trimming covers, show the size of the current trim region

    Closes tickets: 1917363

Bug fixes

    Fix a regression in the previous release that broke sending of emails with text longer than 900 characters
    E-book viewer: Fix using keyboard to extend selection not turning pages
    Fix searching for items from the Manage dialog not working correctly

    Closes tickets: 1918030
    PDF input: Replace paragraph separator characters with spaces

    Closes tickets: 1917386

Improved news sources

    The Conversation

https://calibre-ebook.com

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OpenAudible is an cross-platform Audible audiobook manager.

With OpenAudible you can download, view, convert to MP3, and manage all your audible.com content. Best of all you can view all your Audible books in one location and automatically organize your books as an HTML library.

Shareware

Changelog

    This is a major release that has been in beta for several months.
    This version uses a new method of communicating with audible, support for M4B, dark mode, a better "books" directory, and many other changes.
    This should fix issues where only the first page of books was loading for some users.

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https://openaudible.org/

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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

    Features:

    Can now handle single xhtml file sizes over 2megabytes in size via its own URL Schemehandler
    Will now highlight matched open close tag pairs while editing in Code View
    Delete open close tag pairs (Remove Tag Pair)
    Default selection of text for basic CodeView formatting including bold, italic, etc based on cursor position
    Double-click (and shift double-click) on a tag to select tag contents (including tag)
    Expanded split on Sigil Split Marker capabilities to work better with nested tags
    Added a new C++ CSS Parser and Query engine that works with Sigil's version of Gumbo
    The Reports tool for "CSS Selectors" now lists all CSS selectors not just classes
    The "Delete Unused Styles" tool now handles all unused CSS Selectors not just classes
    The Reports for "CSS Selectors" and "Delete Unused Selectors" now handle selectors in XHTML Style tags
    Added ability to load text and csv files to Group Saved Searches to automate lists of replacements
    Reworked the Metadata Editor to be much more Human Readable with tooltips to show xml tags
    Added semantic code to the descriptive field in Add Semantics as a learning aid (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
    Checkpoint ManageRepos now has the ability to sort the repo table by any column (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
    The Sigil User Guide has be completely reworked to bring it to Sigil 1.5.0+ levels

    Bug Fixes:

    Fix issue with custom ncx names in non-standard empty epub layouts
    Fix Import Text to properly add ncx if missing for epub2
    Fix issue with "Delete Unused Styles" not properly detecting all used selectors
    Fix issues with repeated use of Mend and Prettify on bare text in structural tags
    Fix extra line issue with Link to Stylesheet (Thank you BeckyEBook!)
    Fix bug in id assignment in EPUB3 Metadata editor
    Fix bug in trailing slash in Move To Folder paths
    Fix bug in spelling of Columbia->Colombia in Languages (Thank you Tex2002ans!)
    Fix bug in Clip Editor pasting of multiple clips
    Fix bug in PerformCSSUpdates related to quoted string in content: values
    Fix bug related to iframe handling when loading Preview
    Fix typos in XMLEntities descriptions (Thank you BeckEbook!)
    Fix numeric table alignment to align right in multiple tables (Thank you BeckyEbook!)
    Fix bug in Add Existing not properly using QProgressDialog for long import
    Removed long deprecated and now invalid use of "altlang" in EPUB3 Metadata Editor

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

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New features

    Edit book: When right clicking on a class in a HTML file, add an option to rename the class throughout the book
    Adding from ISBN: Add an option to check if there are existing books with the specified ISBNs already in the library

    Closes tickets: 1919103
    Template tester: Instead of next/last, the template tester now shows the template values for selected books

    Closes tickets: 1920576
    Content server: Allow swiping left and right to show next/previous book on the book details page

    Closes tickets: 1918047
    E-book viewer: Make the commonly used shift+arrow key shortcuts for modifying selections using the keyboard work. Also add shorcuts for selecting by character, line and paragraph.

    Closes tickets: 1919072

Bug fixes

    MOBI Output: Fix latest kindle firmware not displaying select publisher font option for calibre produced azw3 files

    Closes tickets: 1920613
    E-book viewer: Fix errors when viewing books with mathematics that are split over multiple internal files

    Closes tickets: 1919033
    Content server viewer: Fix highlights not sorted correctly in the highlights panel

    Closes tickets: 1918436
    Get books: Fix smashwords plugin not working because of website changes

    Closes tickets: 1918737
    Improve the performance of QuickView especially when using composite columns

    Closes tickets: 1920733
    Improve performance of the virtual_libraries() template function

    Closes tickets: 1918428
    Browser viewer: Fix Go to Location not working for positions

    Closes tickets: 1920250
    E-book viewer: Fix searching in the Table of Contents not working

    Closes tickets: 1905257
    E-book viewer: In paged mode, fix scrolling not working correctly when margins are set to zero

    Closes tickets: 1918105
    E-book viewer: Fix incorrect ToC navigation in books that link the entries to inline tags that wrap block tags that span multiple pages

    Closes tickets: 1918437
    Category editor: Searching in library shouldn't automatically opens Quickview

    Closes tickets: 1920592
    Conversion: Fix a hang caused by long sequences of non-word characters when heuristics are enabled, either explicitly or for some input formats such as TXT

    Closes tickets: 1919260
    Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke --explode-book and --implode-book actions for calibre-debug.exe
    Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke setting metadata in RTF files

New news sources

    ZackZack.at by Dirk Gomez

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Changelog

Features:

    Can now handle single xhtml file sizes over 2megabytes in size via its own URL Schemehandler
    Will now highlight matched open close tag pairs while editing in Code View
    Delete open close tag pairs (Remove Tag Pair)
    Default selection of text for basic CodeView formatting including bold, italic, etc based on cursor position
    Shift double-click (and Alt double-click) on a tag to select tag contents (including tag)
    Expanded split on Sigil Split Marker capabilities to work better with nested tags
    Added a new C++ CSS Parser and Query engine that works with Sigil's version of Gumbo
    The Reports tool for "CSS Selectors" now lists all CSS selectors not just classes
    The "Delete Unused Styles" tool now handles all unused CSS Selectors not just classes
    The Reports for "CSS Selectors" and "Delete Unused Selectors" now handle selectors in XHTML Style tags
    Added ability to load text and csv files to Group Saved Searches to automate lists of replacements
    Reworked the Metadata Editor to be much more Human Readable with tooltips to show xml tags
    Added semantic code to the descriptive field in Add Semantics as a learning aid (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
    Checkpoint ManageRepos now has the ability to sort the repo table by any column (Thank You BeckyEbook!)
    The Sigil User Guide has be completely reworked to bring it to Sigil 1.5.0+ levels

Bug Fixes:

    Fix issue with custom ncx names in non-standard empty epub layouts
    Fix Import Text to properly add ncx if missing for epub2
    Fix issue with "Delete Unused Styles" not properly detecting all used selectors
    Fix issues with repeated use of Mend and Prettify on bare text in structural tags
    Fix extra line issue with Link to Stylesheet (Thank you BeckyEBook!)
    Fix bug in id assignment in EPUB3 Metadata editor
    Fix bug in trailing slash in Move To Folder paths
    Fix bug in spelling of Columbia->Colombia in Languages (Thank you Tex2002ans!)
    Fix bug in Clip Editor pasting of multiple clips
    Fix bug in PerformCSSUpdates related to quoted string in content: values
    Fix bug related to iframe handling when loading Preview
    Fix typos in XMLEntities descriptions (Thank you BeckEbook!)
    Fix numeric table alignment to align right in multiple tables (Thank you BeckyEbook!)
    Fix bug in Add Existing not properly using QProgressDialog for long import
    Removed long deprecated and now invalid use of "altlang" in EPUB3 Metadata Editor

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

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New features

    Allow auto scrolling through the list of books by pressing the X key or right clicking on the cover browser

    Closes tickets: 1917634

    Useful to have a "slideshow" of book covers. The speed of scrolling can be controlled in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser
    E-book viewer: Speed up first time open for EPUB files with lots of styling
    E-book viewer preferences: Allow searching for keyboard shortcuts
    Edit book: Allow editing WEBP images
    Various improvements to the template language, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573
    E-book viewer: Show the current progress percentage in the bottom bar of the viewer controls. This can be customized in the viewer preferences under Headers and footers

    Closes tickets: 1921610
    E-book viewer: Add an option under Preferences->Miscellaneous to not restore open panels such as Search, Table of Contents etc on restart

    Closes tickets: 1921689
    When exporting highlights as text or markdown also output top level chapter titles
    Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se

    Closes tickets: 1922327
    Preferences->Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book

    Closes tickets: 1922591
    MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software

    Closes tickets: 1922341
    DOCX Input: When converting embedded fonts, replace spaces in the filename with underscores to keep the execrable epubcheck happy

    Closes tickets: 1921793
    E-book viewer: Selection bar: Add keyboard shortcuts for all buttons. Hover over a button in the bar to see the shortcut

Bug fixes

    FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed

    Closes tickets: 1924232
    Metadata comments editor: Fix setting block alignment destroying other block level properties

    Closes tickets: 1924187
    E-book viewer: Fix margins not being adjusted immediately when preferences are changed
    Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option

    Closes tickets: 1921604
    Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the <html> tag, as it is pointless and causes the execrable epubcheck to complain

    Closes tickets: 1922570
    E-book viewer: Improve scrolling behavior when extending the selection using keyboard shortcuts
    E-book viewer: Fix read percent for HTML files that are rendered in a single screen being 0% rather than 100%
    E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights

    Closes tickets: 1924598
    CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that dont specify a character encoding

    Closes tickets: 1922503
    EPUB2 metadata: Read ISBNs in identifier elements without schemes if they are valid ISBNs and no properly identified isbns are present
    Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites

    Closes tickets: 1922309
    Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores

New news sources

    Los Danieles – Columnas sin techo by CAVALENCIA

Improved news sources

    New Scientist
    Irish Times
    1843
    The Straits Times

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Bug fixes

    CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata

    Closes tickets: 1924703
    Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin

    Closes tickets: 1924824
    Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
    Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats

    Closes tickets: 1924767
    Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values

    Closes tickets: 1924675

New news sources

    The Saturday paper by Alistair Francis

https://calibre-ebook.com

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EPub Metadata Editor is a lightweight tool that helps you edit the information of your EPub ebook files.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

Fix for the placement of prioritorised image item in manifest.

https://github.com/benchen71/epub-metadata-editor

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Bug fixes

    Closes tickets: 1924675
    E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that causes the viewer to ignore page-break CSS properties (in 5.16.1)
    Fix a regression that broke using stored templates (in 5.16.1)
    Fix auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1)

    Closes tickets: 1924875
    E-book viewer: Fix jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1)

    Closes tickets: 1924890
    E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke changing keyboard shortcuts in the viewer preferences (in 5.16.1)

    Closes tickets: 1924853
    E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke using the delete key to delete highlights (in 5.16.1)

New news sources

    Crikey by Alistair Francis

Improved news sources

    Granta
    New Scientist

https://calibre-ebook.com