Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New features

    Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
    Content server: Add an option to control which book list mode is used by default for new users (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Choose book list mode)
    Content server: Allow clicking on book cover in details page to read the book.

    Closes tickets: 1819058
    Amazon metadata plugin: Add a option to use the mobi-asin to find books.

    Closes tickets: 1823520
    E-book viewer: Allow specifying ToC hrefs via the --open-at command line parameter.

    Closes tickets: 1656573
    Tag Mapper: Allow Title-casing of tags.

    Closes tickets: 1823097
    Manage authors dialog: Add an entry to the right click menu to show books by the current author in the main book list.

    Closes tickets: 1821992
    Lots of internal changes to calibre's codebase to prepare it for python 3 support.

Bug fixes

    Content server: Fix links to external resources in book details and the viewer not working
    Content server: Fix using a bookmark to load the book list not working if server is password protected.

    Closes tickets: 1819025
    Content server: Book details page: Fix close button not going back to book list after using Next/previous buttons.

    Closes tickets: 1819060
    Kobo driver: Fix update device metadata setting not being saved. Also fix book language not being set correctly on newer firmware.
    PDF Output: Fix 'stroke-dasharray' lines in SVG images in the input document not being rendered correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1821923
    Fix searching for authors on amazon not working because of a change in the amazon URL structure.

    Closes tickets: 1822532
    Cover grid: Check for cover size change due to screen scale change on every paint event and invalidate cache if there is a change.

    Closes tickets: 1723972
    Edit book: Fix Option key + ; not working in the editor.

    Closes tickets: 1823040
    Edit book: Fix pasting images into a book with no Images folder not working correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1817405
    Confirm cancel on library restore dialog

    Closes tickets: 1823204
    EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not being applied for some options.

    Closes tickets: 1821968
    Fix using --insert-metadata with ebook-convert not inserting the title and author metadata from the source document
    Adding books: When adding with auto-merge and auto-convert enabled, also run conversions for books into which the added files are merged.

    Closes tickets: 1822018

New news sources

    The New Criterion by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    Il Post
    Le Monde Edition Abonnes Papier
    Le Temps
    NASA
    1843
    derStandard
    LA Times

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

Versions 3.41.1, 3.41.2, 3.41.3 fix various regressions in the previous release that affect a few people.

Closes tickets: 1825472, 1825494, 1825542

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Bug fixes

    Conversion: Transform styles: When using regular expressions fix substitution groups not working.

    Closes tickets: 1825764
    Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the conversion of HTML to text in comments when output to catalogs or converting downloaded metadata to behave slightly differently.

    Closes tickets: 1826654
    Edit book: Fix beautify not handling <colgroup> and <th> tags correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1826631
    DOCX Input: Fix cross-references using the 'fldSimple' markup not being recognized by calibre.
    EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused ampersands and middle-dots to appear as HTML entities in the output.

    Closes tickets: 1826127
    Prevent a malformed tweaks.json file from stopping calibre startup
    Fix a regression that broke completion for ebook-convert
    News fetching: Fix a regression that broke removal of attributes/javascript/srcset because of bugs in the new BeautifulSoup
    TXT Output: Fix Vietnamese  character being stripped from output.

    Closes tickets: 1825770
    E-book viewer: Fix specifying a non-existen location via --open-at causing viewer to hang

New news sources

    Magyar Nemzet by pofa

Improved news sources

    Global Times
    Corriere della Serra

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    Kobo driver: Support for new Kobo firmware
    Edit metadata dialog: Remember relative sizes of the cover and comments editors.

    Closes tickets: 1828291

Bug fixes

    PDF Output: Fix hang when converting some documents.
    Handle newlines when serializing to csr files

    Closes tickets: 1827198
    Fix searching in manage tags throws away all changes

    Closes tickets: 1828986
    Fix a regression in the previous release that broke using the wireless device driver with the device_for_template option
    Fix metadata download from Amazon stripping accents from comments text in the binary builds
    Amazon metadata download: Fix some downloads failing when a mobile user agent is randomnly selected.

    Closes tickets: 1827027
    LRF Input: Fix a regression that broke parsing LRF files.

    Closes tickets: 1826970
    PDF Input: Workaround for pdftohtml not always producing valid UTF-8.

    Closes tickets: 1830568

New news sources

    The Baffler by Jose Ortiz

Improved news sources

    The Toronto Star
    The Financial Express
    London Review of Books
    Boston Globe Subscription

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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    New features:

    Driver for the new NOOK Glowlight Plus
    Driver for updated Kobo firmware

    Bug fixes:

    Amazon metadata plugin: Fix searching the Amazon servers directly not working because of changed markup

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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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

    Bug Fixes:

    Flush all changes to disk before creating a Report so that files sizes are correct
    Stop writing python bytecode to Program Files on Windows
    Remember cover semantics if cover image replaced by Add Existing...
    Fix issues with the Plugin Framework documentation epub
    More memory leaks plugged
    Minor code cleanups

    New Features:

    Updated to Qt 5.12.3 with Annulen Webkit 5.212 with extra QtCursor memory leak fixes
    Updated to Python 3.7.2
    Updated build docs for macOS, Linux and Windows
    Build system now uses GNUInstallDirs to determine the best installation libdir on Linux
    Updated desktop integration for Linux
    Reduce PCRE cache size to help lower memory footprint
    Improve mapping of hunspell dictionary names to actual language names (thanks BeckyDTP)
    Add warning during import if unmanifested files exist in the epub zip archive
    No longer requires use of non-breaking space entities (or any entities at all!)
    Special spaces are now visisble via syntax highlighting in CodeView
    Dropping epubs on Sigil.app no longer opens an extra empty epub on macOS
    Reload Preview only when needed to help prevent screen flicker and lower memory use
    Enabled Windows automated builds using Apppveyor
    Windows releases now compiled with Visual Studio 2017
    Characters in HTML files report now uses gumbo for speed
    Allow user's custom plugin icons to survive a plugin update

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Changelog

    Ported to use QtWebEngine (based on Chromium) to replace QtWebkit
    QtWebEngine plugs many major memory leaks. Memory footprint should stay low to moderate.
    QtWebEngine has ongoing security and support patches from Qt/Google/Chromium
    Removes the broken/deprecated BookView Editor that relied on QtWebKit
    Created PageEdit app (that uses QtWebEngine) that replaces much BookView functionality
    (see https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/PageEdit)
    Allows the user to control use of javascript and remote access by epubs when editing
    To improve overall security
    Adds action to launch one preferred external xhtml editor via shortcut or icon
    (can be used to fast launch PageEdit app or any other xhtml open-with editor)
    Adds 5 more plugin quicklaunch buttons to main menu for a total of 10
    (with all new icons! Thanks so much Becky!)

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Asciidoc FX is a book / document editor to build PDF, Epub, Mobi and HTML books, documents and slides.

Freeware

Whats new:>>

JavaFX 12 support
Asciidoctor 2 support
Drop Markdown support (Due to Nashorn deprecation)

http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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New features

    Content server: Allow adding or removing formats to a book via the edit metadata page.

    Closes tickets: 1831304
    ToC Editor: Allow user to control whether duplicate headings are included or not when generating ToC from headings
    Advanced search dialog: Remember the last focused field in the search by title/authors tab
    Conversion: Performance improvement for books that have many HTML files that all include the same CSS stylesheets
    Kobo driver: Add options to more precisely control the generation of cover images, to reduce size and enhance quality
    Support subtitle in Douban metadata plugin

Bug fixes

    Linux: Workaround for bug in recent Linux kernels that causes the Kindle to eject after calibre connects to it.

    Closes tickets: 1834641
    DOCX Input: When autodetecting the Table of Contents from headings, work even if the headings use numbering.

    Closes tickets: 1834661
    EPUB Output: If there are no guide elements do not output an empty guide tag. Makes epubcheck happy.

    Closes tickets: 1835560
    Workaround for sortByColumn being partially broken in Qt 5.13.0

    Closes tickets: 1834989
    Fix a regression that broke the per_lang_title_sort_articles tweak.

    Closes tickets: 1834329
    Sending email: Fix an error on some windows machines with non-ASCII hostnames
    EPUB Output: When generating EPUB 3 preserve the old style meta tag to identify the cover as Google Play Books does not recognize EPUB 3 cover markup.

    Closes tickets: 1832660
    Create catalog: Fix handling of the tilde character in BiBTeX catalogs.

    Closes tickets: 1832726
    News downloads: Fix incorrect font sizes for some text in the index pages.

    Closes tickets: 1832628
    Comic Input: Fix incorrect processing of comics with pages that have the same file names in different folders when using the "No process" option.

    Closes tickets: 1831487
    CHM Input: Fix a regression that broke processing of some CHM files.

    Closes tickets: 1831511
    Edit book: When auto-closing tags on typing </, fix occasionally incorrect tag being closed in large files because syntax highlighting has not completed
    Kobo driver: Fix for ContentType not being defined error for extension-less non kepub files on a Kobo
    Content server: Book details page: Do not display empty rows for undefined dates
    Get books: Update Google books and amazon plugins for markup changes
    Edit book: Text search: Fix searching for a single character backwards not working

New news sources

    Aviation International News by Jose Ortiz

Improved news sources

    Art and Letters Daily
    The Wall Street Journal
    Barrons
    Newsweek

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Bug fixes

Fix a Windows-specific regression in 3.45.0 that caused various errors in the viewer and editor
Linux: Workaround for bug in recent Linux kernels that causes the Kindle to eject after calibre connects to it.

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

Fix a Windows-specific regression in 3.45.0 that prevented calibre from starting on non UTF-8 locales with non-ASCII usernames

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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OpenAudible is an open-source 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.

License: Open Source

Whats new:>>

Some UI changes
Refactor books.json file format.
Fix issues #145.
First pass #147.
Started parsing/capturing "series" data
Is the "donate" feature working?

https://openaudible.org/

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Jeboorker is a software application designed specifically for helping you change the e-book metadata. The tools offers support for EPUB, CBR, CBZ, and PDF file format.

License: GPL

Whats new:>>

    Upgrade to Java 8
    Runnable now with Java > 9

https://github.com/meerkatzenwildschein/jeboorker

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Bug fixes

    Manage tags dialog: When searching for a tag also search the "Was" column to see if the original tag name matches.

    Closes tickets: 1836813
    Windows: Fix calibre-server --manage-users not working correctly
    MOBI Input: Fix conversion of MOBI files with malformed markup and embedded <guide> tags not working.

    Closes tickets: 1836548
    Edit book: Allow the search expression history to remember very short terms and also preserve leading and trailing whitespace.

    Closes tickets: 1836559
    Fix a regression in 3.45 that broke conversion of SVG images when converting to formats such as MOBI that do not support SVG.

    Closes tickets: 1836463
    Fix a regression in 3.45 that broke parsing of old-style .py config files

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Changelog

    Bug Fixes:

     - add missing title tag to nav head to make epubcheck happy
     - add dcterms:modified to empty epub 3 opf to keep epubcheck happy
     - fix lost Preview-CodeView sync when internal links are followed in Preview
     - fix macOS specific bug with newer versions of PIL (Pillow) used by plugins
     - no longer link against unused Qt frameworks when building (thank you eli-schwartz!)
     - prevent ms vc++ automatic reboots during Windows installs
     - prevent user from changing semantics of the nav file itself (it must be set to "toc")
     - fix bug that dropped nav from spine when HTML TOC created

    New Features

     - added epub3 tool: Generate NCX/Guide for epub2 e-readers
     - added epub3 tool: Remove NCX and Guide
     - added right click on link in Preview copies url to clipboard
     - added check mark indicator for current semantic set in AddSemantics dialog
     - opf guide is no longer used/updated in epub3, unless new epub3 tool menu is used
     - harden Sigil against maliciously crafted epub zip archives (aka zip-slip attacks)
     - added bk.getnavid() to the plugin framework and navprocessor.py for plugin devs
     - updated build documents to the latest Qt 5.12.3 and Python 3.7.2

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