Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New features

    Manage authors dialog: Improve performance in very large libraries

Bug fixes

    Book details panel: Fix a regression that caused right clicking on an author name to manage it not opening with that name selected.

    Closes tickets: 1883768
    calibredb set_metadata: When converting a string into a datetime if the string is a full ISO 8601 date with timezone do not adjust the date to make it timezone neutral.

    Closes tickets: 1883433
    Edit book: Fix Check book spuriously reporting incorrect mime type warnings for fonts after upgrading a book from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3.

    Closes tickets: 1882436
    Book details panel: Dont show sizes less than 0.01MB as zero.

    Closes tickets: 1882469
    Viewer: Fix jump to previous section not working when viewer is on last section

Improved news sources

    Journal of Accountancy
    Bangkok Post
    20 minutes

http://calibre-ebook.com

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OpenAudible is an 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.

Shareware

Changelog

    This fixes a number of issues.
    Replaced ffmpeg/ffprobe with LGPL versions for #384.
    Fixed #387 to not lock up "Show File" for some linux users.
    Split and join audio files have been revamped. Joining now asks you to select a directory that contains audio files. Cover art is used.
    Fixed #392 where not getting artwork might cause a split to not finish
    Fixed #403 to allow splitting multiple books at once.
    Added "Book Report" action item to get detailed report about a book. (for debugging, but might be helpful.)
    Revamped book file cache for improved performance on larger libraries.

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https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    Edit book: Preview: Support displaying mathematics
    Kobo driver: Add support for the latest firmware version
    Allow copy/pasting dates from columns having different date display formats.

    Closes tickets: 1885004
    Book details panel: When right clicking on tags/authors/etc. allow finding them in the Tag browser easily.

    Closes tickets: 1884343
    Allow selecting individual items to delete in the Check library dialog.

    Closes tickets: 1884402
    Add an option to the wireless device driver to ignore device free space when sending books.

Bug fixes

    Viewer: Fix turning pages in paged mode with a high precision touchpad to generate scroll events too fast
    Edit book: Fix pasting files from another editor instance causing unsaved changes in open editors to be lost.

    Closes tickets: 1885455
    Tag browser: Do not show counts for searches as they are always zero
    Check library: Do not abort if there are folders in the library that calibre does not have permission to access.

    Closes tickets: 1884544
    Amazon metadata download: Fix download of ratings not working from amazon.co.jp

    Closes tickets: 1884400

New news sources

    The Print by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources

    Popular Science
    Caravan Magazine
    Sports Illustrated
    Gazetta Prawna

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New features

    Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Nia
    Cover grid: Vertically center covers that are smaller than the available space.

    Closes tickets: 1886731
    Quickview panel: Add a checkbox to easily toggle if virtual libraries are respected.

    Closes tickets: 1886347
    When creating custom columns allow specifying a default value to be applied to new books for that column

    Closes tickets: 1886079

Bug fixes

    Edit book: Fix initial sync of preview panel to cursor position sometimes not working when a new HTML file is opened for editing
    Fix changed author sort name not being used when adding another book by the author to the library.

    Closes tickets: 1886492
    Cover browser: improve rendering of text with heavily hinted fonts.

    Closes tickets: 1886239
    Viewer: Fix CBC comic files not being viewed correctly. Note that you have to reload the book via the viewer controls to apply the fix.

    Closes tickets: 1886307
    Viewer: Fix Table of Contents not correct for comics.
    Viewer: Ignore the zero width non-joiner character in searches
    Viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke reading of books with mathematics and also <a> tags without href attributes.

    Closes tickets: 1886192
    Cover grid: When using a background image do not scroll it with the covers.

    Closes tickets: 1886139

Improved news sources

    1843 magazine
    Caravan Magazine

https://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 1.2.0 release):

    Added FontTab to show a specific font by double-clicking in BookBrowser
    Added Index Toolbar
    Windows/macOS release build updated to Qt 5.12.9 with added bug fixes
    Windows/macOS release build updated to Python 3.8.3
    Added increased protection against evil epubs manipulating file: urls
    Changes to support building with Visual Studio 2019 on Windows
    Improved Windows Installer and handling of C++ runtime libraries
    Updated Build instructions for MacOS, Windows, and Linux

    Bug Fixes (since the 1.2.0 release):

    Reorganized the source code to add a Widgets folder to reduce code duplication
    Fixed spelling mistakes in MetaEditor user interface and xmlsanitycheck error messages
    Fixed mistakes handling font files (and other files) whose names start with a "." on macOS/Linux
    Improved embedded python error messages
    Improved some error messages on epub load
    Fix TabConnections to properly handle the new FontTab tabs
    grew Preferences Colour widths to better handle non-English colour names (Thanks BeckyEbook)
    Fixed bug in handling missing local links when using Add Existing ...
    Removed all python2 remanants from the Sigil plugin and pythonlib code
    If "Mend on Open" set, better handle import of huge file of of run-on lines
    Bug fix for css url updating
    Fix bug that prevented css updates from being shown in Preview without reload
    Fix gcc8 build warnings where possible
    Prevent BookBrowser's Rename and RERename from using URI delimiters ("#",etc) in file names

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

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Whats new:>>

New application icon, improved book splitting.

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    Edit book: In dark mode, make the preview panel also dark.

    Closes tickets: 1888071
    PDF Output: Headers/footers: Allow displaying the current page number and total number of pages in the top level section/chapter.

    Closes tickets: 1889000
    Edit book: Show EPUB version in window title
    Allow testing if a number column is set or not set in coloring/icon/emblem rules.

    Closes tickets: 1888456
    Viewer: Add a setting to control how many pixels a scroll wheel should generate before triggering a page turn

Bug fixes

    Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused poor performance when editing large files.

    Closes tickets: 1889047
    DOCX Input: Leave undefined text colors in the input document as undefined

    Closes tickets: 1888897
    Viewer: Fix using a very small font step size not working.

    Closes tickets: 1888609
    Font scanner: Also scan the new win 10 local font paths

    Closes tickets: 1888798
    Viewer: Fix typing values in font size adjust control not working

Improved news sources

    Respekt
    The Atlantic


https://calibre-ebook.com

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Whats new:>>

    Improved graphics
    Another fix for long file names in windows
    Fixes a bug where splitting can fail if file name contains two or more periods.

https://openaudible.org/

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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:>>

Deleting bookmarks crash fixed

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

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Whats new:>>

    Fixes a start up bug where a NullPointerException is thrown on startup initializing directories.

2.3.2

    Fixes a bug for splitting where a "books" directory is created and used.

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware. Also add recognition of 'Kobo Plus' subscription books
    Edit book: Allow customizing the base background/foreground and link colors for the preview window.

    Closes tickets: 1889925
    Quickview panel: Add actions to the context menu to search for book in library, open in viewer, etc.

    Closes tickets: 1891765
    Allow forcing calibre to remember the column width for the On device column by right clicking the header of the column
    Template language: Add functions to perform math operations to convert fractional numbers to integers

Bug fixes

    Content server: Fix Esc key not working in several views.

    Closes tickets: 1849958
    Fix unable to delete default value for custom columns of boolean type, once set

    Closes tickets: 1889973
    EPUB Output: When splitting dont consider files with only a single character empty
    Comments editor: Fix syntax coloring for HTML view in dark mode
    Book list: When a series column is not wide enough, elide text in the middle so that the series number is visible

New news sources

    linuxnews.de and t3n.de by Volker Heggemann

Improved news sources

    El Diplo
    calibre Blog
    ESPN
    LA Times
    Winnipeg Free Press
    Popular Science
    Science News Recent Issues

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Whats new:>>

    This version fixes a bug that prevented some (Mac) users from converting their files.
    Adds some new language translations

https://openaudible.org/

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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:>>

    You can now include subfolders in the metadata extraction procedure.
    Added yet more checks and balances (and on-screen instructions and error messages) to the extraction procedure.
    Added a no installer zip file to GitHub (and added a link to it on the update available dialog).

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

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New features

    For details on the major changes in calibre between 4.0 and 5.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fourteen
    E-book viewer: Add support for highlighting

    https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#highlighting-text
    E-book viewer: Add support for right-to-left and vertical text
    Switch calibre to Python 3. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=326405
    Dark mode support for the Content server and E-book viewer user interfaces
    Content server's in-browser viewer now supports bookmarking. Bookmarks and highlights are auto-synced across devices.
    Regular expression engine used for searching the book list and reading metadata from filenames has been made more powerful.

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Whats new:>>

Version 5.0.1 fixes a bug in 5.0.0 that broke connecting to devices on macOS

https://calibre-ebook.com