Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New Features

    Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book's formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel.

    Closes tickets: 1515411
    Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog.

    Closes tickets: 1515462
    Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard
    Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.

    Closes tickets: 1514468
    On Linux, use the system tray icon from the system theme, if available

Bug Fixes

    Fix for error when connecting to some Android phones/tablets that have an SD card on OS X and Linux
    Linux build: Fix problem with pointing hand mouse cursor not using the system theme on some Linux systems
    Fix the device view state not being saved when a connected device is ejected/disconnected
    Edit Book: Fix saving fails if the original file is deleted during editing session

    Closes tickets: 1513849
    E-book viewer: When doing a search do not match text in comments, attributes and inappropriate tags, such as <script> and <style>

Improved news sources

    Gamasutra

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Bug Fixes

    Update the version of libpng bundled with calibre to fix a security vulnerability in libpng

    See https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8126 for details on the vulnerability

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover browser
    When sending books without a cover to the device, generate a cover with book metadata instead of using the blank book icon
    Preferenes->Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns

Bug Fixes

    PDF Output: Handle input documents with fonts that do not have either postscript or full name information.

    Closes tickets: 1518678
    DOCX Input: Handle numbering styles that use non-decimal number formats and custom templates.

    Closes tickets: 1519962
    Allow restoring of corrupted library to work even if the metadata.db file is missing from the library folder

    Closes tickets: 1519855
    Bulk metadata dialog: Fix renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.

    Closes tickets: 1519599
    Bulk metadata dialog: Fix search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.

    Closes tickets: 1516890
    Content server: Fix next and previous links not working in the mobile view when using a search query that includes url unsafe characters.

    Closes tickets: 1519606
    Update Amazon metadata download plugin to handle amazon.com website change that was preventing any metadata from being downloaded
    Edit Book: Fix error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.

    Closes tickets: 1517928
    Tag browser: Fix various bugs in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also fix counts and average rating for items in user categories
    When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.

    Closes tickets: 1516880

Improved news sources

    The Guardian and The Observer

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Changelog

Fix bug when template sgc_toc.css could be changed to blank on save, since no InitialLoad() was done
Change order of TextResource m_IsLoaded and m_CacheInUse flags to minimize potentail race exposure.
Fix PluginRunner bug that introduced errors into xhtml files when both the content.opf and xhtml were modified.
Automatically XML decode and escape Metadata entries created in the Metadata GUI.
Alter pluginhunspell.py so a missing libhunspell doesn’t stop ALL plugins from working/
Default to using clean by gumbo vs prettyprint gumbo in new installs.
Fix prettyprint bug with trailing whitespace improperly inserted after inline tags inside div tags.
Fix for bundled interpreter packages PIL and cssutils on Mac OS X that were missing.
Fix for crash when using Find in BV on pages with no text, only images (issue #156).
Added testplugin_v010.zip to docs to allow Linux packagers to test their plugin implementation.
Fix for prettyprint bug with tables (issue # 158).
Fix for serialize in gumbo to limit injection of new lines to barest minimum.
Update Plugin Framework documentation to Revision 6 – see docs/Sigil_Plugin_Framework_rev6.epub.
Make build order of Sigil’s internal gumbo deterministic in order to help Linux packagers.
Make plugin launcher success and error messages robust to non-utf-8 strings.
Fix for crash bug when comments exist inside manifest of opf.
Fix for Sigil’s internal gumbo to only inject end tags when current token does NOT need to be reprocessed.

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New Features

    PDF Input: Add support for PDF outlines (bookmarks), if present, they are used as the metadata Table of Contents.

    Closes tickets: 1524522
    Book polishing: Add tool to losslessly compress images in the book in order to reduce its filesize, without affecting image quality
    Edit Book: Add a new tool to compress images in the book losslessly, accessed from the Tools menu
    Kobo driver: add support for new Kobo firmware

    Closes tickets: 1524742
    Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow entering fractional numbers into the series number start with control.

    Closes tickets: 1523253
    Speed up moving libraries by using hardlinks instead of file copies when moving to a location on the same filesystem
    Get Books: Disable the Amazon EU stores, at Amazon's request

Bug Fixes

    Fix moving libraries via calibre leaving behind a copy of the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file in the original library folder
    MOBI Input: Warn about corrupted trailing data entries, instead of aborting. Getting some, even partially corrupted text is better than no text.

    Closes tickets: 1521830
    Book details: Fix single value custom text column not clickable.

    Closes tickets: 1521004
    Saving to disk: Fix custom date column being rendered in GMT instead of the local time zone when used in a save to disk template.

    Closes tickets: 1520895

Improved news sources

    New York Review of Books
    Caravan Magazine
    heise

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

Whats new:>>

Opening ebooks with a doubleclick in Windows Explorer
Version of the program is now visible on loading screen
Debug system upgrade
Minor UI fixes

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

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Changelog

Update BuildingOnLinux docs
Update Building on Mac OS X docs
Fix example clips/searches loading on Linux
Simplify UseBundledInterpreter Logic
Preliminary Linux binary installer support added
Include Pull Request 161 by pinotree "Switch TempFolder to QTemporaryDir" to improve safety
Fix bug when adding existing html links to stylesheets not being updated
Fix bug in Well-Formed error messages due to bug inside gumbo's error.c
Add xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" attribute to html tag if missing
Reduce fear of Cleaning ToValidXHTML by using serialize not prettyprint
Add ability to change Sigil's user preferences directory by specifying a new path via the SIGIL_PREFS_DIR environment variable (path must be user-writable).
Fix lost DOCTYPE info when splitting or merging
Completely rework pretty printing via gumbo to be much more robust
Make identification and storage of page-map.xml more robust
Completely revamp Cleaning to use "Mend Code" and remove PrettyPrintGumbo as on option
Rename PrettyPrintGumbo to "Mend and Prettify" and move to CodeView Right-click menu
Restore Sigil's update checker that's been broken for a while
Update sigil_bs4 prettyprint_xhtml and serialize_xhtml routines to use logic of code in GumboInterface
Update sigil_bs4 to use numeric entities when faced with nbsp so they do not get lost later in Sigil
Rename "Sanity Check" to "Well-Formed Check EPUB" and remove check icon people confused with FlightCrew
Fix out of date error message referencing Tidy
Coerce missing or bad doctypes to meet either epub2 or epub3 standard
Inject empty title tag if missing from head
Html escape Index entry text used to create index.html

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New Features

    A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data -- books, settings and plugins

    Right click the calibre icon in the main calibre toolbar and choose "Export/import all calibre data" to run this tool. It is useful if you want to move to a new computer or duplicate your calibre setup on a second computer, with minimal effort. This tool is very new, so if you run into problems, please report bugs. You can always use the old manual method of copying library folders as a fallback.
    Get Books: Add plugins for Amazon Australia and Amazon India. Also restore the Amazon EU plugins.

    Closes tickets: 1526089

Bug Fixes

    PDF Input: Fix conversion of PDF documents that contain ASCII control codes in their outlines not working.

    Closes tickets: 1527697
    Edit book: Fix image compression utilities opening a new console per invocation on windows
    Image compression: If the compression tools return a zero byte image ignore it and use the original image
    Fix a regression that caused book titles in the Book Details panel to become clickable

Improved news sources

    Fox News
    Le Devoir
    Le Monde diplomatique.fr

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    Driver for Energy Ereader Screenlight.

    Closes tickets: 1529108
    DOCX Input: Add option to have superscripts/subscripts converted so that they do not affect the line height of the line containing them.

    Closes tickets: 1528055
    New option to hide empty categories in Tag Browser (Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser)

Bug Fixes

    Image compression: Fix spurious zero byte .bak files being created when compressing png images inside epub files
    Image compression: Fix bug that could cause zero byte images files/or file in use errors when compressing images
    Fix some icons not being themeable

    Closes tickets: 1529501
    E-book viewer: When using heuristics to detect footnote links check for vertical-align set to top and bottom as well as sub and super
    Book details panel: Display data in right-to-left format when the calibre interface language is set to a right-to-left language such as Hebrew or Arabic

Improved news sources

    Rzeczpospolita
    New York Times Book Review
    der Standard
    More Intelligent Life
    Reader's Digest
    Financial Times
    New Scientist

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    E-book viewer: Add an option to allow only a single book to be viewed at a time. Trying to view a second book will cause it to replace the currently viewed book.

    Closes tickets: 1526504
    Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware 3.19.5761
    Linux build: Update bundled version of Qt to 5.5.1

Bug Fixes

    Fix splash screen getting stuck on OSX when restarting calibre in debug mode
    Get Books: Update plugins for various Polish language book stores to handle changes to the website
    Amazon metadata download: Handle a change in the amazon website that prevented review metadata from being downloaded
    Better algorithm for guessing the 'external' network interface that is displayed to the user
    Tag Mapper: Do not allow the user to create rules with invalid regular expressions
    E-book viewer: Disallow hyphenation in documents that use mathematical typesetting as the hyphenation breaks that typesetting
    E-book viewer: Fix some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.

    Closes tickets: 1532323
    Download calibre plugins securely using HTTPS
    MOBI Output: Try to autofix corrupted PNG images in the input document.

    Closes tickets: 1531738
    Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.

    Closes tickets: 1531394
    E-book viewer: Fix failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.

    Closes tickets: 1530517

New news sources

    LaRed21 by Carlos Alves

Improved news sources

    Echo Online
    Various Uruguayan news sources
    Economic and Political Weekly
    Tagesanzeiger

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

Additional activation fix

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

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Whats new:>>

- 'Continue reading' fix.

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

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New Features

    Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This fixes device detection problems on some Windows 10 computers
    Edit Book: When inserting images, add an option to insert the image as a full page image
    DOCX Input: Add support for framed text created by setting the same border style on neighboring paragraphs.

    Closes tickets: 1526663
    Update PocketBook 650 driver for latest firmware revision

    Closes tickets: 1535801

Bug Fixes

    DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders
    ODT Input: Fix fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored
    Fix restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths
    Edit Book: Fix error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.

    Closes tickets: 1535427
    Fix failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.

    Closes tickets: 1535007
    Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This fixes errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
    Fix tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns
    Fix existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.

    Closes tickets: 1534597

Improved news sources

    New Scientist
    FAZ.net
    Scientific American
    Business World Magazine
    Houston Chronicle

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Changelog

Bug Fixes:

Add a python based updatechecker for Sigil updates to prevent Windows OpenSSL build issues
Stop 'Generate TOC' from introducing unnecessary spaces in front of class attibute values
Use localeAwareCompare to attempt to add Index Entries to build them sorted
Fix segfault caused by use of possibly stale htmlresource pointer in FlowTab destructor
Workaround Qt bug that causes slow selection/highlighting of xhtml on Linux
Fix multiple typos in sigil_gumbo_bs4_adapter code

New Features:

Add an autostart/autoclose capability for plugin developers
Add 3 User-assignable ToolBar Buttons for up to 3 plugins - users can an assign key accelerators to them
Add General Settings Preference for setting default (epub 2 or 3) for new documents
Merge CleanSource Preference Settings into General Settings Preferences
Add Setting to control Epub access non-multimedia remote resources
Completely reworked Sigil internals to support epub version (2 or 3) specific functionality - ImportHTML, ImportEPUB, Splitting and Merging, Index Generation, Mending, are all now epub version aware
AddModificationDate upon save is now epub2 and epub3 aware
Add "Epub3 Tools" to the Tools menu
Add three new epub3 tools: "Update Manifest Properties", "Generate Nav From NCX" and "Generate NCX From Nav" to "Epub3 Tools" menu
Add local-storage support to PV/BV for epub3's that use javascripts
Added support to recognize and update upon load SMIL files and Adobe page-map.xml files
Make quoteurl url scheme-aware in both python and for Qt, since epub3 allows external resources
Extend url address recognition to include track, video, and object elements attributes
Recognize and store .vtt and .ttml files for video subtitles and captioning
Prevent attempts from using Metadata Editor gui from hurting epub3 until support is added later
Many epub3 related bug fixes and changes to make sure all new epub3 href/links are properly updated
Reworked the plugin_launcher epub3 interface code to allow fallback and media-overlay attributes
Added support for MathML in Preview via Mathjax.js-single polyfill
Added the MathML list of void tags to GumboInterface for proper serialization
Add technique to call long EmbeddedPython calls by using QtConcurrent::run

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New Features

    Add an action to the context menu for the search bar to paste and instantly execute the search.

    Closes tickets: 1541286
    When adding multiple books from a single directory, added the books in order of the last modified time of the book files.

Bug Fixes

    Fix a regression in 2.50 that prevented a small number of devices from being detected on windows
    PDF metadata: Workaround for PDF files with corrupted XMP metadata packets, generated by Nitro PDF.

    Closes tickets: 1541981
    Edit Book Beautify: Do not beautify the insides of heading/p tags even when they are the only child of body
    Amazon metadata download: Fix published date not being downloaded from amazon.it
    Fix a regression in 2.50 that broke the user created device driver feature on windows
    EPUB Input: Fix error when processing EPUB files that uses non-ascii characters for their unique ids.

    Closes tickets: 1540496
    When reading the cover from comic files, ignore any image files inside __MACOSX/ directories.

    Closes tickets: 1539414
    Fix calibre on OS X unable to connect to sites that support only TLS >= 1.1. Also update the version of Qt bundled on OS X to 5.5.1

Improved news sources

    Endgadget
    The Economic Times India
    Discover Magazine

http://calibre-ebook.com/