Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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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:>>

File associations improved

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

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New Features

    Allow creating rules to ignore files when adding books based on the filename

    Useful when using the auto-add feature or when adding in bulk. Preferences->Adding Books->Rules to filter added files
    calibredb add: Allow specifying filters to control adding of books from directories
    E-book viewer: Allow copying the Table of Contents to the clipboard by right clicking on it.

    Closes tickets: 1548791

Bug Fixes

    FB2 metadata: Ignore invalid (unidentifiable) cover images.

    Closes tickets: 1548417
    FB2 metadata: Fix error when adding books with non-numeric series numbers.

    Closes tickets: 1548405
    DOCX Input: Fix handling of toggle properties such as bold/italic/strikethrough/etc. when specified as document defaults.

    Closes tickets: 1548187
    Conversion pipeline: Add support for the q CSS length unit

New news sources

    Al-Masry Alyoum by Hassan Williamson

Improved news sources

    AsiaOne
    Today Online - Singapore
    Foreign Policy
    Outlook India
    Economic and Political Weekly
    Foreign Affairs
    El Pais
    LA Times
    Al-Ahram
    New York Times Book Review

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Visualize eComics with this handy application that also comes with an integrated library to help you manage your files more easily.

Freeware

Changelog

NEW: ComicRack now fully supports HiDPI Screens (Surface Pro, Retina etc.)
NEW: Added new format values {numberonly} and {volumeonly} for caption/filename formatting (see example in comicrack.ini CaptionFormat)
CHANGE: Removed usage of default ComicRack.ini if alternate configuration is specified

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New Features

    Edit Book: A new tool to transform book styling using easy to create rules.

    For example, you can create rules to change colors in the book or to double the font size of all text in the book, etc. For details, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#transforming-css-properties
    Conversion: Allow creating rules to transform styles during conversion, as above. Available in the conversion dialog at 'Look & Feel->Transform style'
    Edit metadata dialog: Make the hide toolbars right click menu action persistent. Also fix very large number of custom fields causing the basic metadata tab to not be aligned properly
    Portable Installer: Do not ask to launch calibre when running an automated install. Automated installs will now never launch calibre.

Bug Fixes

    E-book viewer: Hide list numbers for popup footnotes when the footnotes are use <ol> as the number are likely to be incorrect.
    DOCX Input: Ignore the hidden bookmark Word 2010 inserts to enable the go to last edit feature.

    Closes tickets: 1552972
    Fix keyboard focus lost after merging book records

    Closes tickets: 1550520
    E-book viewer: Handle <![CDATA[ escapes correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1550966
    Edit Book: Fix spelling correction suggestions not being shown when using the context menu key with the cursor at the end of the word

Improved news sources

    Mediapart

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Changelog

Bug Fixes:

Prevent the use of zero length key fields when obfuscating fonts
IDPF font obfuscation key accepts all input except as specified
Fix typo in main.ui accelerator assignment
Update Transifex project URL
Prevent NCX Weirdness with ampersand added when editing NCX in codeview and TOC widget showing
Fix lost namespace attributes on metadata tag
Allow auto conversion from package version 1.0 to 2.0
Remove unused parameter from gumbo create_text_node
Fix bug that hits package version when no xml declaration on opf on import
Add id to Heading structure to greatly speed up NCX/TOC creation even more
Only the true nav should ever have the nav manifest property set
Prevent nav property from being overwritten when updating manifest properties
Prevent segfault if user add semantics but never chooses one
Prevent Add Cover from returning the wrong doctype for epub3
Make sure cover-image and svg (if needed) are added as epub3 manifest properties when adding a cover
Make sure all referenced resources are found for Delete Unused Media
Remap non-standard epub namespace prefixes in the opf to those now reserved for epub3
Make loading epubs with broken opf files more robust

New Features:

Extract all MarcRelators related code into its own class so it can be shared
Added some missing MARC relators
Removed obsolete MARC relators (ctb replaced clb, and sng replaces voc)
Completely redesign MetaEditor gui to work with both epub2 and epub3 metadata
Add default metadata language and title for the user
Make the Nav a required part of an epub3 - create an empty one if need be
Create NavProcessor to use gumbo to update the nav.xhtml
Add support for Adding/Removing Nav Landmarks
Better identify the true nav when loading epub3s
Add ability to generate Nav TOC from Book Headings to CreateTOC tool
Check for valid nav otherwise create a new default one ready for updates
Do not allow split markers to be added to nav.xhtml
Do not allow nav to get merged
Do not allow the nav to be deleted
Do not allow plugins to delete the nav under epub3
Completely Revamp BookBrowser interface to support both Guide and Landmark Semantics
Create Semantics Dialog to better handle epub2 and epub3 semantics
Create Separate Guide/Landmarks classes for epub2 and epub3 respectively
Rename DescriptiveMetaInfo structure to just DescriptiveInfo to work with guide/landmarks elements
Add a mapping from Landmark to Guide and Back
Remove old GuideSemantics code
Make sure Landmarks semantics show up in BookBrowser tooltips
Update epub3 semantic vocab in Landmarks
Completely Revamp how the dockable TableOfContents gui widget is built and updated
Remove strong coupling between TableOfContents widget and NCX
Allow dockable Table Of Contents to refresh from Nav under epub3
Large update for translations needed
Many new strings supporting the MetaEditor GUI and Add Semantics GUI were added

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Whats new:>>

Performance improved ~ x15 times
Better eBook rendering
Clickable hyperlinks in ebooks
Select & copy text
Select & translate text
Select & search text in Google or Wikipedia
Images display improved
GUI and bug fixes

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

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New Features

    Edit metadata in bulk dialog: Allow configuring the types of generated covers.

    Closes tickets: 1559257
    E-book viewer: Make the detection of note boundaries for popup footnotes a little more robust
    E-book viewer: Add options to control the amount the mouse wheel and arrow keys scroll by in flow mode
    When running the content server do not hide the main calibre window during shutdown until the content server has stopped. Show a shutting down message in the window so that the user knows what is happening.
    Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for empty links
    DOCX Input: When the document has a Table of Contents created using the Word Table of Contents tool, keep a reference to it in the metadata. This is useful when converting to old style MOBI and you want to precisely control placement of the ToC.

    Closes tickets: 1556983

Bug Fixes

    Fix auto-mounting of some types of devices not working on FreeBSD
    calibredb add: Fix the --cover option not working if the book being added has its own cover.

    Closes tickets: 1562507
    E-book viewer: Fix mathematics being typeset at too small a font size on windows
    PDF Output: Fix occasional blank pages erroneously inserted in the text (at the end of an internal html file).

    Closes tickets: 1559855
    Book details panel: Fix url:file:// identifiers not becoming links
    Fix fetch news dialog not rendering properly on HiDPI screens
    Fix a hard to trigger crash introduced in the previous release when using the conversion dialog

    Closes tickets: 1557147

New news sources

    Magyar Nemzet and Mult Kor by pofa

Improved news sources

    Nature News
    TIME Magazine
    Folha de Sao Paolo
    Endgadget
    MSNBC
    The New York Times Book Review

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

- Text selection improved
- Keyboard page turning fixed

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Changelog

Bug Fixes:

Fix regression when ImportHTML in gathering HTML based DC. metadata
Fix regression - remove incorrect use of opf:scheme from dc:creator and dc:contributor under epub2
Fix regression - the guide reference tag is always a void tag
Fix issues with hunspell spell checking under Windows when non-ascii paths to dictionaries
Fix issues with overridding the prefs directory on Windows with non-ascii paths
Fix broken manual "Check" button on W3C stylesheet validation's generated html form.
Fix media-type recognition for .m4a and .m4v file extenstions in main Sigil and plugin code
Treat ruby and rt as inline tags when pretty-printing in Sigils and for plugins

New Features:

Allow user to choose what level of CSS gets used in the "Validate Stylesheets
With W3C" tool via user preference (General).

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New Features

    Allow creation of rules to convert arbitrary identifiers into clickable links in the book details panel (Prefrences->Look & Feel->Book details)
    Tag mapper: A new rule type 'split' allows you to easily split tags on a character
    Make the shutting down message an overlay so it is less disruptive
    Allow right clicking on Virtual Library tabs to edit/delete the virtual library.

    Closes tickets: 1568306
    Tag mapper: Add a button to edit the list of tags in a tag mapper rule using the tag editor dialog.

    Closes tickets: 1568376

Bug Fixes

    Conversion: Fix the obsolete HTML align=center markup (produced by Microsoft Word) not working for tables.

    Closes tickets: 1569583
    Font subsetting: When font-variant: small-caps is used include the capital letters as well, in case either the font or the renderer do not support OpenType smcp.

    Closes tickets: 1568555
    Font subsetting: Implement support for text-transform.

    Closes tickets: 1568555
    Fix the target book entry in the book list not being refreshed after merging books. Only matters if you have a column based on book formats.

    Closes tickets: 1568091
    E-book viewer: Fix a link that has some text along with a superscript/subscript being incorrectly detected as a footnote link
    Fix device detection on windows failing if the registry entries for the device contain a very long item.

    Closes tickets: 1567569
    Edit Book: Fix an extra colon being added when setting the 'notes' semantic
    Ensure that author folder names are never windows reserved names
    E-book viewer: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being shown together.
    PDF Output: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being rendered together.
    Fix exception in custom column preferences when the column lookup key is changed
    Catalog generation: Do not crash is a book in the library has no uuid.

    Closes tickets: 1565242

New news sources

    Kitekinto by pofa

Improved news sources

    Brand Eins
    Handelsblatt
    tyzden
    Newsweek

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    Edit Book: Add an option to show full file paths in the Files Browser instead of just the file name (in Preferences->Main window)
    Allow creating a keyboard shortcut to minimize the calibre window (Preferences->Keyboard->Miscellaneous).

    Closes tickets: 1573775

Bug Fixes

    Fix the Google Images based cover download plugin not working because of changes to Google's image search service
    E-book viewer: Prevent the TAB key from causing partial scrolling in paged mode.

    Closes tickets: 1571304
    Book details panel: Fix regression in previous release that broke url:http|... style identifiers
    OS X: Redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null instead of ASL since ASL is flaky on some OS X machines. This should prevent errors in third party plugins that print a lot of debug messages even when not in debug mode
    Fix for OS X upgrade 10.11.4 breaking detection of Kobo devices on some systems
    Edit Book: Fix filename being duplicated in the Files Browser when multiple files with the same name are present.
    PDF Output: Make fix for blank page at end of HTML file also work when headers/footers are specified

New news sources

    1843 by Kovid Goyal
    Berlin Policy Journal by Aimylios

Improved news sources

    Forbes
    Wall Street Journal
    Berliner Zeitung
    Tagesspiegel
    TIME
    Foreign Affairs
    New Yorker

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New Features

    Driver for the Bq Cervantes 3
    A new "Ornamental" cover design for the "Generate cover" feature
    Windows: Use a helper process that does not load any calibre DLLs to display file open/save dialogs. This should fix most crashes caused by poorly designed windows shell extensions.
    Allow pressing Alt+O as a shortcut for click the OK button in the Add from ISBN dialog.

    Closes tickets: 1578692
    Remove the calibre dependency on ImageMagick -- reduces calibre install size by ~ 15MB
    Edit book: Add a new image filter: Normalize -- to improve the contrast in images
    Edit book: Add a filter to make images look like oil paintings
    Use 'Not rated' for zero stars in all rating spin boxes

Bug Fixes

    Edit Book: Fix a crash in the Insert Link tool if one of the HTML files contains an empty id.

    Closes tickets: 1580928
    Fix tag like custom columns not sorted when displayed in the Book Details panel.

    Closes tickets: 1578688
    Fix transient window shown during Edit Book startup
    Preserve booklist horizontal scroll position when merging books.

    Closes tickets: 1579637
    Google Images metadata download plugin: Fix error when searching for books with non-English characters in the title or author names.

    Closes tickets: 1577036
    Template language: Fix an error formatting dates when the underlying date does not have a day.

    Closes tickets: 1576742
    Preferences->Keyboard: Fix unable to use Alt+A and Alt+S as custom shortcuts.

    Closes tickets: 1576721

Improved news sources

    Folha de Sao Paolo
    Barrons
    Economist
    Deutsche Welle (English and Spanish editions)
    Die Presse
    MIT Technology Review
    Financial Times UK
    Telegraph UK
    The Guardian
    Spiegel Online
    Brand Eins
    Focus.de
    The Toronto Star
    The Atlantic
    Capital.de
    The Times of India
    The Economic Times India

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Changelog

Highlight text and add annotations
Use navigation scrollbar to turn pages
Change eBook text alignment
HiDPI display support added
Tooltips added for the reading toolbar
Full screen mode improved
Swipe left/right with your fingers to turn pages on Windows tablets
Program window behavior improved
Use hotkey (F11) to enter Fullscreen mode
Use hotkey combo (Ctrl+F) to search eBook or Notes
GUI and bug fixes

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Whats new:>>

- Updater implemented
- Minor bug fixes

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

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New Features

    Edit Book: A text search tool to conveniently search for text even if it crosses multiple HTML tags (Search->Search ignoring HTML markup)
    OSX: Allow drag and drop of file onto viewer dock icon to view file

Bug Fixes

    Workaround for incompatibility between Qt 5.5+ and Ubuntu that caused the context menu for the book list to flicker.

    Closes tickets: 1534936
    Windows: Workaround for explorer shell extensions on windows that write to stdout
    Edit Book: When jumping to next occurrence of a word, take language into account
    Edit Book: Fix import of words into user dictionary not working
    Fix use of non-ascii characters in identifiers causing an error when identifier rules are used.

    Closes tickets: 1584470
    Fix a regression that caused the paste from clipboard button to paste two times in the Add books from ISBN dialog
    Fix for incompatibility with PyQt 5.6

Improved news sources

    Denver Post
    Financial Times
    bild.de

http://calibre-ebook.com/