Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New features

    Allow changing the icon used for calibre libraries. Right click the library icon in calibre and choose "Change the icon for this library"
    Comments editor: Use a single line for all three toolbars if they fit
    Edit book: Allow merging HTML files by drag and drop of the files onto another HTML file
    Kobo driver: Add support for listing purchased audiobooks
    Edit metadata all-in-one mode: The cover and formats column now gives as much vertical space as possible to the cover image
    Add books dialog: When a non-book file type is added the next time the dialog is used, preselect the "All files" filter

    Closes tickets: 1952562
    calibre-server --manage-users: Allow managing users while the server is running and also add actions to automate changing user account restrictions

    Closes tickets: 1952764
    EPUB 3 metadata: If the book contains a "subtitle" append it to the main title when reading metadata

    Closes tickets: 1950762

Bug fixes

    E-book viewer: Fix an occasional hang on startup at "Loading section"

    Closes tickets: 1950673
    Get books: Update the Kobo plugin for website changes

    Closes tickets: 1952142
    Bulk edit metadata dialog: Fix changing the search mode resetting other fields

    Closes tickets: 1951673
    E-book viewer: Fix sorting of highlights incorrect in books that use HTML ids with a hyphen in them

    Closes tickets: 1951507
    PDF Output: Fix the option to break long words at the ends of lines causing boxes to be rendered at the end fo the line on macOS with some fonts

    Closes tickets: 1951467
    Google metadata plugin: When searching by ISBN if no results are found retry using an alternate query syntax

New news sources

    The Epoch Times by Kovid Goyal
    Mens Day Out by Vishwas Vasuki

Improved news sources

    Smithsonian Magazine

https://calibre-ebook.com

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A fresh and stylish ebook reader that allows you to customize all aspects of your collection and make the entire reading experience more immersive.

License: AGPL

Changelog

    Going back to the first page of the chapter after pressing f12
    Inaccurate reading progress after turning on sliding animation
    Comic books going back to the first page of the chapter in scroll mode
    Render issue with comic books
    Parsing issue with fb2 files
    Empty chapter in docx files
    Can't create first note in some books
    Position issue with popup menu in single and scroll mode
    Highlights disappear and can't be created after turning on some reader options
    Image exceeds page column

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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Whats new:>>

5.33.2 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the toolbar in the popup comments editor dialog and rendering of the download metadata button in the edit metadata dialog on Windows, as well as reading files from MTP devices on Windows

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Changelog

    New:

    Open external link in pdf files with default browser
    Increase scrollbar width

    Fixes:

    Reading progress of comic books not persisted
    Position issue with popup menu in epub files
    Header overlaps in epub files
    Not able to add the first note
    Parsing issue with some fb2 files
    Excessive margin in list mode
    Popup menu still showing after pressing search in the book

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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New features

    Happy holidays to everyone!
    Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 4
    Edit book: Spell check tool: Add an exclude files button to exclude some files from being checked
    EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Increase the maximum thumbnail size to 3 inches from 2 inches
    Allow creating a shortcut in Preferences->Shortcuts->Edit metadata to paste metadata ignoring the value of the exclude_fields tweak

    Closes tickets: 1953739
    E-book viewer: Displays links marked up as glossary and bibliography links as popups

    Closes tickets: 1954715
    Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to provide the sort value for undefined numbers

    Closes tickets: 1954572

Bug fixes

    Edit book: Fix pressing F8 to jump to next misspelled word not working after last word in current file
    Fix PDB E-reader output broken in calibre 5

    Closes tickets: 1954889
    Edit book: Reports: Include descendant selectors that use classes when counting class usage

    Closes tickets: 1954839
    E-book viewer: Fix an error when opening some books with highlights that span in-line text formatting

    Closes tickets: 1954726
    MTP driver: Do not send the calibre device db files to the root folder on the Supernote A5 x as it fails

    Closes tickets: 1954460
    ToC Editor: Workaround an occasional error when closing on Windows if the file being edited is in a DropBox/antivirus prone folder
    Fix a regression in the previous release that broke creating new keyboard shortcuts
    Comments editor: When flowing the tool bar onto multiple lines do not split up groups of buttons
    Various compatibility fixes for Python 3.10 used by some Linux distributions

Improved news sources

    Pocket
    El Pais
    American Prospect
    Mediapart

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Make your reading experience more immersive by customizing the style, spacing and theme of the pages or have the contents read out load via this app.

Freeware

Whats new:>>

    Image zoom controls.
    Fixed bug for table of contents not working for some books.
    Better handling for some epub books.
    Other stability fixes.

https://aquilereader.wordpress.com/

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EPub Metadata Editor is a lightweight tool that helps you edit the information of your EPub ebook files.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

Fixed an error where you couldn't add a role to creator2 without a "file as".

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

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Changelog

    New:

    Support built-in css in azw3 files
    Support built-in font in epub files
    Add covers for fb2 and pdf files (For PDF, you need to manually turn it on)
    Add reading progress for mobi, azw3, txt, fb2 files
    Books with garble characters will not be imported from now on
    Background color and text color changes with night mode
    Add Baidu Baike and Wikipedia to web search
    Optimization on chapter analysis algorithm

    Fixes:

    Can't sync notes and bookmarks in some scenarios
    Images not showing in fb2 and azw3 files
    Book order is lost after restart
    Moyu mode not working in epub files when in scroll mode
    Jumping to 404 page when clicking links in some books
    Built-in style and images disappear after turning on simplified and traditional Chinese switch
    Compatibility issue with some chrome extensions or scripts
    Popup menu not showing in some books
    Popup menu exceeds reader margin in some books
    Can't navigate through toc in some epub files
    Parsing issue with some rtf files showing too many question marks
    Book and chapter names are not aligned in the header
    Style issue with line highlighter

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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Whats new:>>

    Completely restructured the save EPUB routine as it applied to creators. This was a major restructuring of the code, so please be careful using it. Only use this version with EPUBs that have been backed up, just in case the save procedure goes bad!
    Fixed "Remove tags" button (in the OPF editor window), which was crashing on some OPF files.
    Fixed errors in the Batch "Replace" function.

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

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Thorium Reader is the EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10, MacOS and Linux.

This EDRLab application is in constant development and aims at becoming a reference for accessing EPUB 3 publications in reflow or fixed layout format, visual narratives (DiViNa), audiobooks and even LCP protected PDF documents.

Huge efforts are made to get Thorium Reader highly accessible for visually impaired and dyslexic people.

This application is free, with no ads and no leaks of private data.

Changelog

    Electron v16
    New feature: URL protocol handler (opds:// in addition to thorium://) and fixed command line interface / file browser actions, open multiple files
    EPUB popup footnotes: added support for external documents
    Accessibility feature: "where am i?" information in publication popup, including headings trail leading to current reading location in "where am I" section of publication info popup modal dialog, CTRL+i keyboard shortcut with SHIFT modifier key to focus
    Accessibility: much improved accessibility support in content webview, keyboard focus management with screen readers
    Accessibility: bookmark add/remove screen reader notifications (ARIA live via visual "toast" user interface), also fixed the bookmark add/remove logic based on keyboard interaction versus icon button, current text selection (for bookmark name), etc.
    Accessibility fix: screen reader hyperlink activation was causing mouse interaction in some cases, which in turn triggered false positives in some critical user interaction detection logic to establish the current reading location (for bookmarking, resuming, etc.)
    Accessible visual indicator of current reading location in table of content (navigation panel) as well as keyboard shortcut SHIFT CTRL N to focus directly on the current heading (existing CTRL N shortcut remains, which only opens the navigation panel, doesn't focus on the TOC tree)
    TTS: synthetic speech readaloud of hidden DOM fragments now skipped, also improved mouse click hit testing and handling of deep MathML text nodes when alttext is present
    TTS: MathML synthetic speech read aloud without MathJax via alttext attribute or fallback to element textual contents
    TTS: synthetic speech read aloud of MathJax / MathML + added image / SVG playback highlight
    DAISY: support for v2.02 ncc.html import and packaged / zipped fileset, audio-only with TOC and phrase granularity, as well as full-text full-audio (EPUB3 Media Overlays equivalent)
    DAISY: fixed regression bug with exploded / unzipped fileset import (publication from OPF package file was failing)
    Fixed EPUB pagebreaks (ARIA role and epub:type attributes)
    GUI fix: OPDS add dialog text input keyboard default focus + button submit click on enter, also added OPDS URL to hover tooltip
    GUI fix: keyboard usability of LCP passphrase input dialog (default focus of text input, default submit button on enter key)
    CSS fix for dialogs, scrollbars were visible even when no overflow (Windows and Linux, or MacOS with optional "show always" system setting)
    Fix for EPUBs with scripted drag-drop interactions
    Improvement of CSS styles in library window, significant refactoring under the hood to ease maintenance
    Bugfix: fixed-layout (FXL) zoom now with crisp text / vector graphics font scaling
    OPDS: fixed a bug in W3C LPF acquisition
    OPDS: fullscreen authentication window
    OPDS: improved title+summary user interface (Atom XML)
    OPDS: import of catalog of feeds from system ENV variable
    Developer workflow: CSS styles are now "typed", i.e. static analysis of available classnames + compile-time checking, improved CSS loader / hashed classnames syntax
    Documentation: updated French readme
    LCP: localisation fixes (multilingual information)

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https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/

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New features

    Coloring/icon rules: Allow creating a rule for date columns that matches *today*

    Closes tickets: 1956006
    Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
    Content server: Show total number of results when searching for books

    Closes tickets: 1954890

Bug fixes

    E-book viewer: Fix searching for text near the end of a chapter sometimes not working

    Closes tickets: 1958028
    E-book viewer: Fix auto hyphenation on macOS not rendering the hyphens correctly

    Closes tickets: 1954714
    Edit book: Reports: Fix thumbnails of SVG images not rendered
    ODT metadata: Support reading tags from multiple <keyword> elements
    LRF Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke parsing of some LRF files

    Closes tickets: 1958115
    MOBI output: Dont fail if input document contains invalid % based lengths

    Closes tickets: 1956097
    AZW3 Input: Handle AZW3 files with incorrect TAGX Offset INDX header fields

    Closes tickets: 1955308
    Comic conversion: Fix conversion of comic images that are stored as grayscale images in JPEG format not working when converting to PDF with image processing turned off

    Closes tickets: 1956932
    calibredb catalog: Fix --ids and --search options not working for CSV/XML catalogs

    Closes tickets: 1955967
    Tag browser: Fix the find box not using all available width

    Closes tickets: 1958490
    E-book viewer: Remove books that do not exist from the recently opened book list

    Closes tickets: 1956192
    Completion popups: Fix display of items containing line breaks
    Fix line breaks in custom column descriptions not being rendered in their tooltips

    Closes tickets: 1956129
    Fix Preferences->Searching->Clear search histories not taking effect till a restart for some search boxes

    Closes tickets: 1956088
    Hierarchical entries in user category may not merge correctly in tag browser

    Closes tickets: 1955732

New news sources

    Dw.de by xav
    Equestria Daily by Timothee Andres

Improved news sources

    Foreign Affairs
    MIT Technology Review
    Reuters
    Clarin
    General Knowledge Today
    Popular Science

https://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

    New human translations for DE, SE, FR and IT. (Thank you contributors!)
    New web browser for windows based on Edge instead of IE for browsing book web pages.
    New login/connect browser for Linux based on Chromium. Currently browser is stored in temp directory and can be deleted after logging in.
    New Apple M1 support for Apple Silicon.
    New high-DPI support and new icons for status (see documentation for details.)
    Fixed a bug #845 where split by chapter was not outputting alphabetical filenames.
    Fixed tag editor bug #840
    Fixed bug where export as csv or json was not working unless you specified a file name with the extension.
    The Docker version has also been updated to always use the latest version.

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https://openaudible.org/

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Whats new:>>

    Fix for login bug that caused an error about having too many virtual devices open on mac.
    Made the main window sash form to expand the table view.
    Fixed browser alignment issue

https://openaudible.org/

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Whats new:>>

    We added some performance enhancements for splitting and joining books.
    Fixed a join bug with files containing a single quote.
    Fixed a display issue where canceling a download marked the book as an error
    Fixed a cancel job bug

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    Edit metadata dialog: Allow controlling which custom columns are present in this dialog via Preferences->Look & feel->Edit metadata
    Edit metadata dialog: Allow manually sizing the various sections of the dialog in "All on 1 tab" mode
    Edit book: Spell checking: Update the bundled English and Spanish dictionaries
    BibTeX catalogs: Support tags like custom columns

    Closes tickets: 1958773

Bug fixes

    Amazon metadata download: Fix paragraphs in the comments being merged

    Closes tickets: 1959659
    Amazon.de metadata download: Fix published date and series information not being fetched for some books

    Closes tickets: 1958979
    Email delivery: Fix sending email via Hotmail not working since this week because Microsoft changed the SMTP server name
    Do not remove articles for titles in the Polish language

    Closes tickets: 1959220
    E-book viewer: When using Read aloud do not automatically lookup the highlighted word until read aloud is paused or stopped

    Closes tickets: 1959207
    E-book viewer: Fix Ctrl+p shortcut for printing not working
    Show an error when viewing a specific format and the file is missing

    Closes tickets: 1958882
    Edit book: Fix renaming of classes that start/end with non word characters not working
    Edit book: Preview panel: Fix hyphenation at end of line being rendered as boxes on macOS

    Closes tickets: 1958730
    Fix incorrect selection size displayed in Trim image dialog when image is scaled down to fit

    Closes tickets: 1959893
    Edit book: Fix pasting files from another editor instance failing if a file with the same name already exists

    Closes tickets: 1959782
    When reviewing metadata if the newly downloaded metadata has no language but there is an existing language, ensure it is preserved

    Closes tickets: 1959981

New news sources

    title by author

Improved news sources

    India Today
    Financial Express
    Indian Express
    Live Mint
    Al Jazeera in English
    The Financial Express
    The Straits Times

https://calibre-ebook.com