Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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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:>>

    Extension bug fixes
    Fixing Highlight.js integration

http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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Edit the metadata of EPUB files and change erroneous authors, covers, publisher, identifier and source using this straightforward tool.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

    Preference uuid identifier if it exists (other identifiers can be changed by editing opf file directly).
    Display a message if multiple identifiers are present in the opf file.
    If uuid identifier changes, also update dtb:uid meta entry in toc.ncx.
    If uuid identifier added (or existing identifier changed to a uuid one), make sure correct id is included in indentifier tag.

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

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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:

     - fix missing python3 network certifications on macOS
     - do not apply named entities in Preserve Entities to epub3 epubs
     - fix build docs for macOS
     - prevent FlowTab destructor race crash when opening a new book (Linux, Mac, Windows)
     - fix suggestions for built-in en_US dictionary by adding "x" to the TRY list
     - fix plugins adding and deleting ncx under epub3
     - throw exception in plugins when epub2 tries to add or delete the ncx
     - fix bad Warning message about missing nav.xhtml file that was not missing
     - fix CodeView to Preview sync breakage due to minimize/restore
     - fix CodeView to Preview sync breakage due to attempting to load the Preview before it
          finished loading the last update
     - fix sigil_bs4 to work with latest python lxml 4.4.X in a backwards compatible manner
     - fix missing Preview to CodeView sync on Qt versions 5.9.X
     - fix segfault on app close related to the PreviewWindow update timer firing at a bad time
     - fix syncing loss caused by spurous load finished signals causing ExecuteCaretUpdate to stop working
     - fix macOS specific bug that allowed multiple Dockwidget MainWindows to become tabs

    New Features

     - add a python3 plugin module navprocessor.py for plugin devs
     - show Preview by default (tabified with TOC) for new installations of Sigil

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

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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:>>

Updated the summary panel. Fixed issues #178 and #182.

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    HTML metadata: Support reading identifiers from HTML files
    Preferences->Ignored devices: Add a button to reset the list of devices that calibre is allowed to manage

Bug fixes

    macOS: Fix a regression that could cause a crash on exit if any books were deleted while calibre was running.

    Closes tickets: 1839044
    Content server OPDS: Handle form encoded search queries.

    Closes tickets: 1841464
    Fix an error when adding files from clipboard and file is of unknown type
    Speed up restoring original format by doing a rename rather than a copy and re-add.

    Closes tickets: 1839733
    EPUB 3: Fix setting metadata in EPUB 3 files without a title not working
    PML Input: Modernize the generated HTML a bit.

    Closes tickets: 1839689
    HTMLZ Output: Fix svg content from HTML files that contain only SVG being removed.

    Closes tickets: 1839522
    Content server: Fix OPDS feed for category based browsing listing restricted books, even though these books cannot be actually downloaded.

    Closes tickets: 1839173
    Preserve tag order when reading metadata from MOBI files
    Add missing 'language' field to ComicBookInfo metadata for .CBR files.
    LIT Output: Fix regression in 3.41 caused by py3 porting that broke conversion of some files to LIT.

    Closes tickets: 1837561

Improved news sources

    Esquire
    Foreign Affairs
    derStandaard
    Globe and Mail
    CNET News
    National Geographic
    New Yorker
    Chicago Tribune

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Bug fixes

    Version 3.47.1 fixes an error when using internet lookup from the book details panel and the e-book viewer, and also the tweak to control number of columns in the edit metadata dialog not working

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Changelog

    Bug Fixes:

    fix bug in macOS that caused spurious warnings about missing file in the manifest
    hopefully fix macOS bug about launching files using open-with from Desktop
    make sure JQuery gets loaded before starting to use Preview javascript functions
    fix local links during split that incorrectly used target filename for internal link
    create GetEnvironmentVar to make access to environment variables more cross-platform
    fix macOS bug when hitting close on the title bar of MainWindow causing strange window behaviour
    hopefully fix macOS segfault on close by disabling Preview timer immediately
    fix Windows 7 issues when running batch (.bat) files via OpenExternally (open with)
    all error messages are now properly logged
    fix improperly disabled open-with menu in Image Tabs popup context menu
    removed use of Qt obsolete methods in About and Error Dialogs

    New Features:

    enable use of SIGIL_DEBUG_LOGFILE environment var to control saving debug output to a file
    properly update the ncx after merging xhtml files
    properly warn users if a multiple rendition epub (multiple OPF files) has been loaded
    make Sigil's external XHtml editor work to pass an OPF file (see PageEdit new features)
    Allow epub3 metadata editor to edit primary meta tags
    Replace buggy cssutils module used in plugins with our own drop-in replacement fork: css-parser
    Updated Mac, Windows, and Linux build documentation

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

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New features

    Driver for Kobo Libra H2O

Bug fixes

    Kobo driver: Fix some annotations getting missed for kepubs

Improved news sources

    Boston Globe
    Scientific American

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

    Fix for uppercase UUID in identifier scheme.
    Fix for identifiers with no scheme.

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

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New features

    For details on the major changes in calibre between 3.0 and 4.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/thirteen
    A completely re-written E-book viewer with an emphasis on presenting the book text, distraction free
    Note that the system requirements needed for calibre have been increased, details are present on the calibre download pages for each operating system

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences)
    Viewer: Allow showing the 'position in book', as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in calibre 3, in the header or footer of the viewer.

    Closes tickets: 1846700
    Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode.

    Closes tickets: 1846800
    Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them.

    Closes tickets: 1846903
    Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer
    Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit
    Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates.

    Closes tickets: 1846839
    Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes.

    Closes tickets: 1846967
    Kobo driver: Support for new firmware

Bug fixes

    Viewer: Fix a couple of bugs in flow mode. Scrolling to anchors was not working and remembering last read position was not working
    Viewer: Fix text after comments not being rendered. Note that the book has to be reloaded if already viewed for the fix to apply.

    Closes tickets: 1846875
    Viewer: Fix loading progress screen sometimes getting stuck if changing pages rapidly.

    Closes tickets: 1846751
    Viewer: Fix failing to open books if path to cache contains symbolic links.

    Closes tickets: 1846834
    Viewer: When restoring from fullscreen go back to maximized state if window was maximized when entering full screen.

    Closes tickets: 1846753
    Viewer: Fix shortcut changes not being applied after pressing OK if shortcut list is closed by pressing Esc.

    Closes tickets: 1846765
    Fix a regression that broke reading metadata from ODT files that do not have keywords.

    Closes tickets: 1846828
    PDF Output: Fix a bug that prevented the first style property in the header or footer template from being applied
    PDF Output: Fix error with a few embedded TTF fonts.

    Closes tickets: 1846982
    Edit book: Font manager: Fix removing embedded font failing if @font-face rule has no src.

    Closes tickets: 1847052
    Viewer: Hide the browser provided scrollbar that flashes momentarily on page load.

    Closes tickets: 1846922
    Viewer: Fix clicking on margins causing keyboard shortcuts to not work until the main text is clicked on again
    Comments editor: Workaround for Qt converting ids into anchors
    Possible workaround for some windows machines where the viewer is getting access denied errors while renaming a directory
    Viewer: When there is empty text for an header footer section render it as blank instead of moving the remaining sections to the left

Improved news sources

    Fortune Magazine

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

irst round of the split by chapter and join audio files. Utilities for you heritics who like their audio books split into a million pieces.. and for those who would like their audio books united into one beautiful audio file.

Also fixed a broken "Delete Audio Book" action that was disabled in the last version.

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    macOS: Various improvements to dark mode support
    Viewer: Dont generate covers for books that dont have a cover. Note that because of this all previously opened books will again be prepared for first time reading.
    Viewer: Restore print to PDF functionality
    Viewer: Allow also jumping to book positions in Goto->Location
    Content server: When adding books and a duplicate is suspected provide more information about what books match the duplicate
    FB2 Output: Speed up conversion of images and handle external links
    Viewer: If the book has no ToC try to generate one from headings, if any.

    Closes tickets: 1847277
    Viewer: Improve rendering of comics. No blank pages after large images or after every image in multi-page mode.
    Viewer: Make it easier to use the bookmarks panel with only keyboard.

    Closes tickets: 1847423
    Viewer: Set the classes calibre-viewer-paginated and calibre-viewer-scrolling on the <body> tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed.

    Closes tickets: 1847427
    Viewer: Use the same loading spinner as is used by the rest of calibre

Bug fixes

    Edit book: Fix a crash when editing CSS files caused by a behavior change in Qt 5.13.

    Closes tickets: 1846760
    Fix a regression in 4.0 that broke rendering of PDF covers for PDF files that used JPEG2000 compression.

    Closes tickets: 1847567
    Viewer: Fix a regression in 4.1 that broke creating new color schemes

    Closes tickets: 1847407
    Viewer: Fix error while viewing books with a comment after a <meta> tag.

    Closes tickets: 1847977
    Viewer: Fix an error when processing a CFI with an invalid text offset.

    Closes tickets: 1848320
    Viewer: Fix scrolling backwards to previous chapter not always scrolling to the end of the chapter, if the chapter loads external resources.

    Closes tickets: 1847818
    Viewer: Fix hang on books with namespaced attributes on <html> that do not belong to a known ebook namespace.

    Closes tickets: 1846886
    Viewer: Fix search history not persisting between viewer restarts.

    Closes tickets: 1847976
    Viewer: Fix scrollbar showing up on initial book open even if disabled in preferences.

    Closes tickets: 1847323
    Viewer: Fix rendering of books with mathematics failing
    Viewer: When changing between individual sections/chapters in the book, only render the new chapter after loading is complete
    Viewer: Fix scrolling by screenfuls not working correctly in flow mode
    EPUB 2 metadata: Fix obfuscated fonts being broken when updating metadata if the file uses Adobe font obfuscation and the identifier with the key has an uppercase UUID scheme name.

    Closes tickets: 1847890
    Viewer: Fix right clicking on margins not showing controls
    Viewer: Preselect text in search box when showing it.

    Closes tickets: 1847677
    Viewer: Fix SVG images that use xlink:href to refer to paths not being displayed.

    Closes tickets: 1847181
    Content server: Fix detection of iOS on iPAD with iOS 13 which defaults to desktop mode
    Metadata jacket: Fix
 tags in the comments not being rendered correctly when inserting the comments into the jacket page.

    Closes tickets: 1848327
    Viewer: Show nicer error message for DRMed books

    Closes tickets: 1847468
    Viewer: Fix preferences under Scrolling behavior not being saved correctly
    Viewer: Fix remembered position sometimes off by one page in paged mode.

    Closes tickets: 1847322
    Viewer: restrict max size of margin page turn indicators to 25px rather than 75px
    Viewer: Dont flash the home page before loading a book if a book has been specified
    Viewer: Fix ctrl+m shortcut not working on windows
    Content server: Fix regression that caused series name in book details view not not be blue to indicate it is clickable

Improved news sources

    Various Polish news sources
    Il Sole 24 Ore

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Whats new:>>

Updated libraries. Fixed some join/split issues.

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    Viewer: Halve the time taken to prepare large EPUB files for first open
    Viewer: Add an optional toolbar with common actions turn it on under Preferences->Miscellaneous
    Viewer: Change the default color scheme to "System" which matches the colors used by the rest of calibre/the operating system. Also means the colors change automatically when the system color theme changes.
    Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut ; to go to a book location or position
    Viewer: Add a control to easily reset the interface to defaults
    Viewer: Allow also using --open-at with book positions
    Viewer: Add command line option to force reloading of books

Bug fixes

    Content server: Fix conversion of comics not working.

    Closes tickets: 1847017
    Book details: Allow right click to copy author links and identifiers
    Book details: Fix removal of identifiers via right click not working
    Book details: Fix clicking on tags etc not generating exact match searches
    Viewer: When resizing and the resizing back to the old size ensure we return to the same page in paged mode.

    Closes tickets: 1847507
    Duplicates dialog: Sort sub-list of matching books already in calibre by author for easier inspection.

    Closes tickets: 1851386
    PDF Output: Fix links that go to destinations in the same file not working.

    Closes tickets: 1849529
    Viewer: Fix changes to keyboard shortcuts not being applied until viewer is restarted.

    Closes tickets: 1851045
    DOCX Input: Fix AlternateContent blocks rendering both choice and fallback sections.

    Closes tickets: 1847365
    macOS: Fix unable to re-arrange entries in the CSV catalog list.

    Closes tickets: 1850918
    Windows: fix UTF-16/truncated output when reporting unhandled exceptions
    Viewer: Fix mouse wheel not working when mouse is over page margins.

    Closes tickets: 1850845
    Linux: Install bash completions as individual files for each calibre binary
    Content server: Fix download button not working with non-ebook formats.

    Closes tickets: 1850078
    Fix a crash in popup completion lists if the mouse is over the list and list is scrolled with the keyboard
    Viewer: Fix rare exception when navigating to a CFI.

    Closes tickets: 1849775
    Viewer: Ignore failures printing console message when the viewer is launched with broken stderr.

    Closes tickets: 1849612
    Amazon metadata: Fix failure to get published date from audible book pages.

    Closes tickets: 1849400
    Viewer: Fix shortcuts preferences not being translated
    Tag browser: Fix incorrect text color when using dark theme for hovered item
    Fix crash if canceling the icon theme download while covers are downloading
    Viewer: Fix non-ASCII content in stylesheets not being interpreted correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1848858
    Viewer/Content server: Fix history for completion popups such as search bars not being stored correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1847976
    PDF Output: When a link with a fragment points to a non-existent anchor link to the top of the file instead of not linking at all
    PDF Output: Fix standard svg fullscreen image markup not working
    PDF Output: Fix some books with full screen images failing to convert.

    Closes tickets: 1848701

Improved news sources

    Clarin
    Various Polish news sources

http://calibre-ebook.com/