Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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Whats new:>>

4.11.2 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the New bookmark button in the viewer and scrolling in the content server library view. Also fixes calculation of default column widths in viewer not changing when font size is changed.

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware with the series list on the device
    Automatically extract the source DOCX file from Kindle Create KPF files when adding them to calibre. If you prefer to preserve the KPF file you can disable the KPF Extract plugin in Preferences->Plugins
    Content server: Add a button to delete all locally cached books.

    Closes tickets: 1864305
    Edit Book: Allow selecting the contents of a tag with Ctrl+Alt+t
    Viewer: Save current position after 3 seconds of last position change. Useful if the viewer crashes on resume from sleep.
    Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+w) to toggle the scrollbar.

    Closes tickets: 1864356
    Viewer: Keyboard shortcuts to change number of columns (Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+])

Bug fixes

    Fix the Douban metadata download plugin

    Closes tickets: 1853091
    Viewer: Fix searching in Regex and Whole words mode not working well.
    Viewer: Fix searching for multiple words in fixed layout books not working.

    Closes tickets: 1863464
    RTF Input: Fix handling of RTF files with invalid encoded text.

    Closes tickets: 1864719
    PDF Output: Add a hangcheck for loading HTML if there is no progress for sixty seconds abort

    Closes tickets: 1865380
    Viewer: When starting without a book allowing quitting the viewer by clicking the close button on the "Open book" page

    Closes tickets: 1864343

New news sources

    Spectator Australia by James Cridland

Improved news sources

    Wired
    ABC News Australia

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:>>

FB2 eBbooks fix for line separation

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

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New features

    Edit book: When searching in normal mode, have spaces in the search expression match multiple spaces and line breaks in the text.

    Closes tickets: 1868847
    When running calibre-portable.exe popup a more useful error message if it is placed in a location with a too long path.

    Closes tickets: 1866739
    Edit book: Allow skipping confirmation dialog when marking non-first file as cover page
    Add a shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+p] to switch to the previously opened library.

    Closes tickets: 1866742

Bug fixes

    Viewer: Fix searching in flow mode not scrolling to display the search results.

    Closes tickets: 1866519
    Viewer search: Fix jumping to next match sometimes selecting previous match if the searched for expression occurs with identical context in multiple places.

    Closes tickets: 1868633
    Viewer: Ensure there is no bleed between pages when using single page per screen
    Fix shift click not working reliably in the book list
    Fix edit open with applications not working from files browser in editor
    MOBI Input: Upshift non-animated GIF to PNG as it is a more widely supported format
    MOBI Input: Dont auto-convert images in PNG/GIF formats to JPEG
    MOBI Output: Improve conversion of PNG images with transparency to GIF
    Check Book: Do not fail if non-UTF-8 stylesheets are present in the book.

    Closes tickets: 1866701
    Viewer: Maximum font size for margin text should be the body font size not hardcoded to 12px
    PDF Output: Ignore glyph size mismatches when merging fonts for TTF.

    Closes tickets: 1866364

New news sources

    Istorias and Sardinia Post by tzium

Improved news sources

    Forbes
    LA Times
    Glasgow Herald
    Spectator Magazine
    Newsweek

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

    New Features (since the 1.1.0 release):

    Provide a tweak setting to adjust drag distance for Windows & Linux
    Added YesToAll and NoToAll options for replacing images via Add Existing...
    Highdpi and uifont setting information is now available to Sigil's plugins
    Add a Checkpoint feature to Sigil for fast versioned saves to git repositories
    add ability to easily create a Checkpoint (stored via a local git repository)
    add ability to see the changes between the current epub and any earlier Checkpoint
    add ability to revert the entire epub back to an earlier Checkpoint
    added ability to manage and delete Checkpoint repositories.

    Bug Fixes (since the 1.1.0 release):

    Fix cosmetic file name issue when aborts file rename edits in BookBrowser
    Improve default drag-distance for BookBrowser for Windows & Linux
    Reduce required drag distance for macOS
    Fix index generation bug related to non-escaped text used in regular expressions
    Fix bug that caused lost class attributes when marking words for an index
    Guide to Landmark Semantic mappings have been extended to better cover "other.*" guide items
    Changed the removeDir() routine to better deal with Windows delete file issues.
    Updated Building on Windows docs
    Updated Building on MacOS docs
    Modified the codebase to use Ordered hashes/dictionaries throughout to prevent unneeded reordering in tag attribute order

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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:>>

A few issue bug fixes and a few new features. Scraping new fields, fixed findOphanedFiles, dark mode updates, new documentation.

https://openaudible.org/

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Whats new:>>

    This fixes a "NullPointerException" when clicking on a download link.
    This version creates a warning when a user is getting an updated library web display that Audible is rolling out.
    This version is not compatible with the new view, but at least recognizes the new library URL and gives the user an error message.

https://openaudible.org/

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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
    Version upgrades (javafx, plantuml, fop, spring-boot etc.)

http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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New features

    Viewer: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior
    Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window.

    Closes tickets: 1872759
    Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents
    Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the calibre library
    Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list

Bug fixes

    Book details panel: Fix copy path to file not copying full path to file when right clicking on a format entry
    Windows: Fix error when applying hyphenation in bulk with Polish books.

    Closes tickets: 1873949
    macOS: Fix selecting applications that use binary plist files such as Kindle.app with Open With not working.

    Closes tickets: 1873972
    DOCX Output: Fix images that use URL unsafe characters in their filenames being dropped during conversion.

    Closes tickets: 1873571
    DOCX Output: Fix internal links not working when converted files contain URL unsafe characters in their filenames
    Viewer: Fix view image popup not remembering its geometry
    Viewer: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in search expressions
    HTMLZ Output: Fix SVG images that use xlink:href not working.

    Closes tickets: 1869856
    Windows: Fix drag and drop from SMB shares to the edit metadata dialog formats list not working.

    Closes tickets: 1869471
    Comments editor: Dont insert blank lines between list elements
    Allow using Quick view from the Book grid view.

    Closes tickets: 1869550
    Fix tri-state booleans not working with color/icon rules and undefined values

    Closes tickets: 1873106

New news sources

    Heise ct and iX by Ralf Hein
    Saechsische Zeitung by by epubli

Improved news sources

    London Review of Books
    Seattle Times
    MIT Technology Review
    Zeit Online
    Handelsblatt
    Spectator Magazine
    Spektrum der Wissenschaft

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes
    Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+b) for adding a bookmark

Bug fixes

    Bulk metadata edit: Fix a regression causing scrollbars to not appear in Custom metadata tab.

    Closes tickets: 1875090
    Viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in flow mode.

    Closes tickets: 1874877
    BibTeX Catalog: Dont output comment describing the catalog as Zotero fails to process it.

    Closes tickets: 1876302
    Linux: Fix uninstaller not working on Linux distros that have no python symlink.

    Closes tickets: 1876164
    Viewer: Fix zoom step size setting ignored.

    Closes tickets: 1875840
    Viewer: Fix text that has font sizes specified using keywords not being scaleable by the viewer's font size controls.

    Closes tickets: 1875021
    Viewer: Fix LRF files not opening
    MOBI metadata: When reading author sort from MOBI files, construct the final value from all author fields
    macOS: hide accelerator key underlines since they dont work anyway as Apple does not believe in them
    macOS: Fix keyboard shortcuts for select all, copy and paste not working in file dialogs.

    Closes tickets: 1874499

Improved news sources

    The Nation
    Animal Politico

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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New features

    Viewer/Edit book fuzzy search: Ignore soft hyphens and zero-width joiner characters when searching for text.

    Closes tickets: 1878046
    Tag browser: Allow adding/removing tags/authors/etc. to the currently selected book by right clicking on that tag and choosing "Apply to selected books".

    Closes tickets: 1878308
    Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware
    Manage categories dialog: When editing a value with multiple values selected, change them all
    Book list column header context menu: Add an entry to resize the column to fit its current contents.

    Closes tickets: 1878450
    Show completions when editing tags/authors/series etc in the Tag browser and Manage tags dialog.

    Closes tickets: 1878302
    Quickview: Double clicking an item now searches for it

    Closes tickets: 1878393
    Comments editor: Add an action to the context menu to smarten punctuation.

    Closes tickets: 1876381
    FB2 metadata: Add support for setting publisher and publish year

Bug fixes

    Edit book: Fix compress images losslessly failing for a few images on windows when there are a lot of images in the book.

    Closes tickets: 1877066
    Fix a regression in 4.13 that broke the user category editor for all custom columns.

    Closes tickets: 1877101
    Viewer: Fix font size changes not applying to monospaced fonts.

    Closes tickets: 1876580

Improved news sources

    Ars Technica
    Washington Post

http://calibre-ebook.com/

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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:>>

    /favicon resolution bug fix
    Resolving docname docdir etc.
    Version upgrades (plantuml, fop, spring-boot etc.)

http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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Whats new:>>

PRO activation bug fixes and improvements

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

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New features

    Add a workaround for Amazon destroying cover thumbnails on e-ink Kindles.

    For books sent with this release of calibre, reconnecting the Kindle to calibre after the cover has been destroyed will restore it automatically
    Viewer: Group search results by section
    Viewer: When the search results panel is expanded, show more context
    Tag browser: Add options in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to hide empty categories and also to have the Find in the Tag browser show all matches instead of jumping from match to match.
    Tag browser: The Find function for searching for items in the Tag browser can now do exact matching by using = as a prefix.
    Manage tags/authors/etc dialogs: Allow searching and filtering the list of items.

    Closes tickets: 1879134
    Book details panel contenxt menu: Add an action to open the Book details window.

    Closes tickets: 1878768
    Viewer: Add Next and Previous buttons in the bookmarks panel.

    Closes tickets: 1878691
    Conversion: Change the default white-space CSS for

 tags to pre-wrap as this suits ebooks better

Bug fixes

    Edit Book: Fix default CSS template not quoting the charset, causing Check book to complain about the CSS.

    Closes tickets: 1879618
    Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the losslessly compress images tool when the image filenames had upper case characters on Windows.

    Closes tickets: 1879313
    Fix a regression that broke drag and drop of images from browsers to the book details panel on some platforms.

    Closes tickets: 1879120
    FB2 metadata: Fix setting dates before 1900 failing
    Fix Bookeen Diva HD not being detected.

    Closes tickets: 1877965

New news sources

    Independent Australia by Pat Stapelton

Improved news sources

    How To Geek
    Tagespost by Pat Stapleton
    ABC News

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New features

    Viewer: Search panel: Add a button to return to the position the book was at before doing a search.

    Closes tickets: 1879889
    Tag browser: Improve handling of hierarchical tags

    Closes tickets: 1880264

    Renaming a tag now renames it and all its children. Drag and drop of hierarchical tags alters their hierarchy. Deleting a tag now deletes all its children.
    Viewer: In flow mode, implement drag scrolling.

    Closes tickets: 1880707
    Tag browser: Allow Manage Tags to open to a selected letter when clicking on a letter.

    Closes tickets: 1880175
    Viewer: Show number of search results in title of search panel.

    Closes tickets: 1881792
    Content server: In the book list hovering over the library name now shows the total number of books in the library.

    Closes tickets: 1881384

Bug fixes

    Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the copy and recalculate author sort buttons.

    Closes tickets: 1880395
    Book details: Fix extra margin to the right of the metadata fields.

    Closes tickets: 1881488
    Cover grid: Show text under books that have no cover as well.

    Closes tickets: 1880558
    When merging metadata, if a custom column has type multiple in the new data and some other type in the old data, ignore the old data instead of failing

    Closes tickets: 1881796
    macOS: When using the single instance option of the viewer, crashes should not require a restart of the computer to use the viewer again.

    Closes tickets: 1881375
    Windows: Fix an error when changing title/author for books in a library whose name contains characters not encodeable in the current code page
    Windows: Fix amazon metadata download failing when accented characters in search query

    Closes tickets: 1880300
    Comments editor: Fix shortcuts for bold/italic not working when toolbars are hidden

Improved news sources

    The Hindu
    Wired Daily Edition
    The Economist

http://calibre-ebook.com