Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New features

    Browser viewer: Allow customizing what information is displayed in the header and footer areas. Access Preferences from the viewer controls to change.
    Add support for MTP devices on FreeBSD
    ToC editor: Add more case changing operations to the right click menu
    Content server: Redirect pre 2.x book URLs to new 3.x URLs via a JavaScript redirect
    Content server: Allow opening entries in the book list in a new tab via middle click/right click
    Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some fields when using the Edit metadata->Copy/paste actions
    Linux: Allow using calibre-tray.png in the calibre resources folder to override the system tray icon.

    Closes tickets: 1738518

Bug fixes

    Browser viewer: Fix goto next/previous section actions not working when the sections are in different individual HTML files.

    Closes tickets: 1740333
    Edit book/Book polishing: When compressing images and the compressed image is larger thant he original, use the original image.

    Closes tickets: 1741063
    PDF input: Fix conversion of multi-level PDF Outline causing duplicate entries in the Table of Contents.

    Closes tickets: 1738385
    Edit book: Fix incorrect EPUB 3 declarations being added to the OPF file when adding covers to an EPUB 2 book
    Edit book: Fix backspace key un-indenting instead of deleting even when text is selected if the cursor is at the start of the line
    Tag browser: Fix position not bing preserved when deleting books.

    Closes tickets: 1740387
    Edit Book: Use the cache directory rather than the temp directory to store working files. Hopefully prevents temp file cleaners from destroying books.

    Closes tickets: 1740460
    EPUB input: Handle books that erroneously set the mimetype for font files to text/plain
    AZW3 input: Do not fail to process files with invalid internal flow references.

    Closes tickets: 1740140
    When updating plugins, do not show the dialog asking which toolbar to put the plugin, even if the user has removed the plugin for all toolbars.
    Content server: Fix using the Clear logs button preventing the server from restarting until calibre itself is restarted.

    Closes tickets: 1738433

Improved news sources

    LA Times
    Popular Science
    Nikkei News

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New features

    Content server: Allow adding and deleting of books using the web interface

    Use the + icon in the top bar of the book list to add new books and the trash icon in the top bar of the book details page to a delete a book. Note that only authenticated users are allowed to perform these actions, so you have to setup user accounts for the server to use these features.
    Allow removing the close button from tabs in the Virtual library tab bar. Right click the tab bar and choose 'Lock tabs' to do that.
    calibredb export: Add --progress option
    Bulk metadata editing: Show progress bars to track progress of the operation
    Content server: When downloading books from the server send both the ASCII and full Unicode file names. Browsers that support RFC 6266 can make use of the unicode file name.
    Content server: Show a warning popup on Apple devices when the user tries to search with an expression containing smart quotes, since Apple devices now automatically replace quotes with smart quotes when typing.

Bug fixes

    DOCX Output: Fix links without anchors in the input document not being converted correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1741098
    calibredb: Fix a regression that broke reading of passwords from stdin
    Edit book: Fix an error when saving files with filenames that cannot be encoded using the system codepage on Windows
    Pasting metadata: Fix excluding title and authors not working

New news sources

    Revista Veintitres by Darko Miletic
    Cronica by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    The Galaxy's Edge
    Orange County Register
    Danas

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New features

    Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the column headers and choosing 'Split the book list'

    This is useful to 'lock' one or more columns in place so that they are always visible even when scrolling through other columns. Also, the split list has a separate right click menu which you can configure via Preferences->Toolbars and menus
    Store temporary files used by the editor and viewer in the cache directory to try to prevent errors caused by 'file cleaner' programs deleting temporary files still in use

Bug fixes

    EPUB3 Input: Fix HTML covers and titlepages that are marked using the deprecated <guide> element not being recognized.

    Closes tickets: 1746794
    Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression in 3.13 that made it impossible to use the Force numbering checkbox for custom series
    Conversion: Fix the valign attribute on <td> tags not being honored
    E-book viewer: Fix the 'Copy' keyboard shortcut/context menu action not working on some Windows systems

    Closes tickets: 1477696
    E-book viewer: Make the semi-transparent background for viewing metadata a little more opaque.

    Closes tickets: 1745812

New news sources

    Computing by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    New York Times
    Le Devoir
    New Statesman
    London Review of Books
    New York Post
    LWN Weekly
    Associated Press

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New features

    Browser viewer: Allow long tapping a word to look it up in a dictionary or search the internet for it.

    Closes tickets: 1738995

Bug fixes

    Conversion: Handle the deprecated type attribute on <ol> tags.

    Closes tickets: 1751148
    Fix metadata download from amazon stopped working because of a website change
    Fix re-ordering of columns causing split book splitter state not being restored on restart
    Fix errors when using strftime with unicode strings on non-utf-8 windows systems.

    Closes tickets: 1749219
    Split book view: Fix vertical scroll position of the two views getting out of sync after doing some searches.

    Closes tickets: 1748739
    Fix some edit widget appearing in the wrong place when editing in the right hand panel of the new split book list.

    Closes tickets: 1748713
    Portable build: Fix cache directory not always being auto-created

    Closes tickets: 1747887
    Workaround for Qt 5.10 on Linux resetting the global font, preventing custom interface font settings from working

Improved news sources

    New York Times
    The Economist
    Gosc
    Various Uruguayan recipes

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New features

    Driver for the new PocketBook 740
    Allow using relative URLs in comments type metadata. The relative URLs are interpreted relative to the book folder in the calibre library
    Edit book: Reports: Do not show characters from the HTML markup in the characters report.

    Closes tickets: 1753788
    Allow adding the Virtual library button to any toolbar/menu via Preferences->Toolbars & menus

Bug fixes

    Server: Fix server becoming unresponsive if a client sends invalid SSL data at exactly the right moment
    Conversion heuristics: Make unwrapping recognize Georgian letters as well.

    Closes tickets: 1753533
    Make de-serialization of stored conversion options safe against maliciously crafted input

    Closes tickets: 1753870
    E-book viewer: Change the file format used to import/export bookmarks to use JSON. This prevents malicious bookmarks files from causing code execution.

    Closes tickets: 1753870
    Make the history completion for the search and replace edit box case-sensitive.

    Closes tickets: 1752447
    PDF Output: When the input document contains multiple anchors with the same value, use the first anchor rather than the last. This follows browser behavior.

    Closes tickets: 1752825
    FB2 Input: Add <div> to

content to silence the useless epubcheck

    Closes tickets: 1752141

New news sources

    Granta by Gary Arnold

Improved news sources

    WirtschaftsWoche Online
    Spektrum der Wissenschaft

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New features

    Content server: Allow editing the metadata of books from the book details page

    On the book details page, you can now edit any metadata and change covers by clicking the edit metadata icon in the right area of the top bar. Note that only users that have write permissions for the library can edit metadata.
    Kobo driver: Recognize Kobo Aura 2 with new firmware (4.6.10188)

Bug fixes

    When reading metadata from HTML also recognize <meta name="dc.description"> as being comments

Improved news sources

    Danas
    Al monitor
    Folha de Sao Paolo
    New York Times
    Wirtschaft's Woche


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New features

    Browser viewer: Allow showing the time left in the current chapter/book in the header and footer areas of the book.

    To use go to the preferences of the browser viewer and customize the headers and footers to display the time left. Note that time left in chapter only works correctly if chapters are in separate HTML files in the book.
    Manage tags dialog: Searching now shows all matching tags and there is an undo button to undo changes.

    Closes tickets: 1743896
    Add an output profile for the Kindle Oasis 2017

    Closes tickets: 1759434

Bug fixes

    Content server: Fix adding/deleting books and editing metadata not updating the main calibre book list automatically.

    Closes tickets: 1761017
    Viewer: When doing a dictionary lookup, remove soft hyphens from the word, if any are present.

    Closes tickets: 1760292
    Edit metadata dialog: Fix tab order for buttons to the left of the title and author
    Trim cover dialog: Remove the redundant Trim & OK button, instead have the OK button trim automatically if there is a selection.

    Closes tickets: 1759671
    Update Amazon metadata plugin for a website change
    Content server: Fix translations not being updated without clearing the browser cache
    Content server: Fix switching from translations to no translations not working
    Content server: When updating interface data do not transmit translations if they have not been changed. Saves ~30-60KB bandwidth when using non-English interface language.

Improved news sources

    The Atlantic
    Fortune Magazine
    Telegraph UK
    Hot Air
    Reader's Digest
    The Economist

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New features

    Edit book: Add a tool to upgrade books from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 (Tools->Upgrade book internals)

    Automatically upgrades metadata, converts the NCX table of contents and adds required manifest annotations
    Add support for the FBZ format (zipped FB2)

    Closes tickets: 1762634
    Kindle driver: Change the height of generated thumbnails to 500px, needed for the Oasis 2017
    Edit book: When bulk renaming files add an option to rename by the order in which the files appear in the book.
    Polishing: Recognize titlepages that are marked as covers in the EPUB 3 landmarks section
    Edit Book: Automatically updated the modified timestamp in the OPF when saving EPUB 3 books.
    Remove the ISBNDB metadata plugin as ISBNDB no longer allows free lookups.

    Closes tickets: 1761906

Bug fixes

    EPUB 3 metadata: If the book defines more than one author sort value for an author use the first instead of the last
    Check Book: Dont warn for nav document not in spine in EPUB 3 books
    Linux installer: Fix umask question not working with the recommended install command because stdin is a pipe
    Browser viewer: Show an error message when trying to use the Sync function without being logged in
    When setting cover from a PDF file and the user clicks cancel, do not delete the existing cover

New news sources

    Le Monde: subscriber paper edition by Remi Vanicat

Improved news sources

    Globe & Mail
    National Geographic
    Slate
    GoComics
    Oregonian

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New features

    Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware

    Closes tickets: 1767589
    Book polishing: Add an option to upgrade EPUB 2 to EPUB 3
    DOCX Input: Convert text written with dingbat fonts such as Wingding or Symbol correctly.
    When choosing the page to use as a cover from a PDF file, add a button to render more pages, if needed
    TXT Input: Add support for embedded images that use relative URLs when converting markdown or textile. Note that this will only work if you are converting using the ebook-convert command line tool as the main calibre program moves files around, so relative references will not be valid.
    Edit book: Insert special character: Add an option to select if searching should match all words or any of the words
    Edit book: Insert special character: When searching by name match prefixes in addition to whole words. So you can now type "horiz" to match "horizontal".
    Linux installer: Simplify the command used to install calibre and add support for Ubuntu 18.04 which is missing a default python executable
    When upgrading EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 add the 'epub' namespace to all HTML files, for convenience.

    Closes tickets: 1765944

Bug fixes

    Edit Book: Fix an error caused by a landmark entry in EPUB 3 files that has an <a> tag without an href attribute.
    Edit Book: Fix names for some control characters not being displayed in the status bar
    Searching: Fix A (B) not being treated as A AND (B)
    Kobo driver: Add an option to not maintain bookmarks/read status/etc. when resending a book already on the device.
    DOCX Input: Ignore complex script font styles. Fixes conversion of documents that specify only complex script styles and no simple script styles.

    Closes tickets: 1766650
    When updating EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 ensure only a single dc:date element is present in the OPF

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Whats new:>>

    Version 3.24.1 fixes a regression in the 3.24 in the editor that caused syncing between the editor and the Preview panel/Live CSS panel to not work correctly

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Version 3.24.2 fixes a bug in the new EPUB 3 output functionality that prevented conversion of non-EPUB 3 books to EPUB 3

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New features

    Kobo driver: Support the new Clara HD
    PDF Output: Add an option to use page margins from the input document, specified via @page CSS rules.

    Closes tickets: 1773319

    Allows individual HTML files in the input document to have different page margins in the output PDF.

Bug fixes

    Fix option to "show text under buttons only if there is enough space" not working well with the option to use "two lines for the text under the buttons".

    Closes tickets: 1773426
    Update notification: When both calibre and plugin updates are available and the user updates only the plugins, fix the restart calibre button not working.

    Closes tickets: 1774059
    E-book viewer: Fix printing of comics (cbz/cbr files) not working.

    Closes tickets: 1774163
    EPUB3 Input: Fix Table of Contents not being recognized for some EPUB 3 books that placed their nav document in-side a sub-folder.

    Closes tickets: 1773627

Improved news sources

    Associated Press

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New features

    Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records.

    Closes tickets: 1775123
    Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window.
    Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files
    Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files.

    Closes tickets: 1774945
    E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title.

    Closes tickets: 1776710
    Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold.

    Closes tickets: 1775888

Bug fixes

    PDF Input: Fix a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of PDF to be significantly worse.

    Closes tickets: 1775984
    E-book viewer: Fix very slow loading for HTML files with very many images on Linux.

    Closes tickets: 1774884
    Content server: Fix a regression in 3.14 that removed the separator between books in the detailed list view mode.

    Closes tickets: 1776294
    Edit book: Fix SVG files not being beautified by the Beautify all files tool
    Edit book: Fix searching in selected files not searching SVG files
    Fix Tweaks help string not being displayed translated
    Edit metadata dialog: Fix distorted rendering of some labels in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances.

    Closes tickets: 1766762

New news sources

    El Cronista by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    Slate
    New York Times Book Review
    The Independent UK
    NYTimes Tech Beat
    New York Times
    Cracked.com

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Whats new:>>

version 3.26.1 prevents dropping of a book onto itself from triggering the merge dialog, which should reduce accidental triggers

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New features

    Content server: Allow conversion of books

    Click the convert icon in the top bar of the book details page to convert a book. Note that conversion only works for logged in users who have permission to make changes to the calibre library.
    Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
    Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an "edit tags" button for tags like custom columns.

    Closes tickets: 1779299
    Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to disable the new 'drag and drop to merge books feature'
    E-book viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+B) to toggle the bookmarks panel.

    Closes tickets: 1780097
    Edit book: Add a copy to clipboard button on the various report dialogs
    Edit book: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Down) to edit the next file in the book spine.

    Closes tickets: 1779616
    calibre-smtp: Verify relay server TLS certificates by default. New option --dont-verify-server-certificate to restore old behavior.

Bug fixes

    Conversion: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused conversion of EPUB 3 to EPUB 3 to fail.

    Closes tickets: 1779518
    Fix detection of the Bookeen NolimbookXL on macOS and Linux

    Closes tickets: 1780302
    Fix a regression that broke the fetching of annotations from Kobo and Kindle devices.
    DOCX Input: Fix failure to convert some DOCX files that use Symbol fonts.

    Closes tickets: 1777390
    When exporting very large libraries fix failures due to busy errors.

    Closes tickets: 1779664
    Fix commas not working in identifiers that are transformed to URLs via rules.

    Closes tickets: 1779602
    Review downloaded metadata: Fix cancel button on the confirm reject all dialog not working.

    Closes tickets: 1779576
    Kindle Fire driver: Send books by default to the "kindle" folder instead of the "Books" folder to workaround a change in the Fire firmware that causes the Kindle to not recognize files in the Books folder.
    Linux installer: Also fix the execute bits in the umask if the user runs the installer with a umask that prevents files from being world executable.
    Sort the entries in the show column menu alphabetically.

    Closes tickets: 1778155

Improved news sources

    Gosc Niedzielny
    Cracked.com
    Psychology Today
    The Atlantic
    LA Times
    Handelsblatt
    Newsweek

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