Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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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

Whats new:>>

This version fixes a download issue that affects all users in the Japan and Italy audible region.

https://openaudible.org/

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Whats new:>>

    This release fixes a few issues that came up in version 3.5.7.
    Library location preferences have been fixed.
    Improved error reporting.
    Fix Italy/Japan downloads.

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    Full text search: Ignore soft hyphens when extracting searchable text from books. Note that you will have to re-index your library to take advantage of this.
    Content server: Have the Read button open PDF files in the browsers builtin PDF viewer rather than the calibre viewer since the calibre viewer is not well suited to PDF
    Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
    Create icon theme dialog: Add a checkbox to install the newly created theme into calibre
    Allow re-indexing a book for FTS by right clicking the Book details panel

Bug fixes

    Content server: Workaround for chrome bug causing multiple sign in prompts when connecting to the server after restarting Chrome

    Closes tickets: 1982060
    Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke rendering of first page of EPUB as cover when the EPUB has no actual cover
    Content server: Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused incorrect rendering of comments metadata in the book details panel in dark mode

    Closes tickets: 1981886
    FB2 Input: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke conversion of FB2 on macOS

    Closes tickets: 1982743
    Metadata download from Google: Switch to making the queries via a Google web search as this finds some books that searching via the API does not

    Closes tickets: 1982502
    Book details panel: Fix clicking on items from an enumerated column containing ampersands not searching correctly

    Closes tickets: 1982651
    Image editor: Do not allow initial mouse drag to create selection rect outside the image bounds
    E-book viewer: Fix clicking on ToC entries moving keyboard focus to the ToC search box when the ToC window is floating
    Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused the default cover to be rendered small in some contexts
    Various bug fixes related to the new dark/light icon theme switching. Make the icons more consistent even when using the system theme. Use calibre specific file type icons when using the non native file dialogs. Allow creating dark/light override icons manually in the configuration folder.

    Closes tickets: 1981882
    Disable the color theme setting when using system style

    Closes tickets: 1981909
    When using a fixed color palette and the system colors are of different type enforce the color palette
    Ignore Qt generated application palette changes when using a fixed palette

    Closes tickets: 1982050
    In the icon theme chooser dialog show themes show light and dark themes only in the light and dark tabs
    Welcome wizard: Fix device names not being translated correctly leading to the same name being repeated for some devices

    Closes tickets: 1982035
    Read aloud: Fix spurious error message on Linux about voices not being installed
    Linux binaries: Bundle brotli and graphite2 as well as Qt links against them
    FTS dialog: When keyboard navigation changes the current item ensure it stays visible
    Binary builds: Fix Qt TLS backends not included

    Closes tickets: 1981887
    Fix Qt WebEngine creating cache folders outside of the calibre cache directory

New news sources

    The Athletic by unkn0wn
    Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by bugmen00t

Improved news sources

    Frontline
    HBR
    The Australian
    India Today
    Indian Express
    India Today
    Live Mint
    The Atlantic

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Whats new:>>

Version 6.2.1 fixes a regression in 6.2.0 that caused the Read button in the Content server to only work for PDF books

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

    New:

    Add Google and Bing Translate, old translation service is deprecated and no longer usable.
    Add Polish translation thanks for the effort from community

    Fix:

    Highlights not showing up at first launch
    Chinese conversion not working in some scenarios
    Can't extract chapters of which title contains
    Pages go blank after turning pages too fast
    Order issue with books and notes
    Books duplicate after changing sort
    Highlights not cleared up after emptying trash

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

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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

Added support for Dilicom library connector (not OPDS, special API).
Localisation: fixed French, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal) and Swedish translations. Added the EDRLab.org documentation website link to all locales, in the "about Thorium" XHTML (the link currently redirects to a GitHub microsite that hosts Thorium's user guide).
Added basic "telemetry" feature: anonymous system information sent to EDRLab server on application startup.
Fixed reader window menus which were not closed automatically when switching to fullscreen.
Fixed README documentation, updated supported languages.

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

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New features

    E-book viewer: Allow searching for nearby words using a new "Nearby words" search mode
    calibredb: New fts_search and fts_index commands to perform full text searching from the command line
    Image viewing popup: Allow zooming using the standard shortcuts of Ctrl+plus/minus

    Closes tickets: 1985021

Bug fixes

    Fix a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke remembering the previous sort order for a column
    Fix a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke processing of very high resolution images

    Closes tickets: 1983484
    Full text search: Fix error when using restrict searched books and more than 900 books are present in the searched list

    Closes tickets: 1983230
    E-book viewer: Fix parsing of CSS styles with @supports rules not working
    E-book viewer: Speed up initial render of books with lots of CSS in <style> tags by not prettying the CSS
    Google books metadata download: Fix paragraphs not being recognized

    Closes tickets: 1983126
    Content server: Fix light background for comments editor in dark mode
    Content server: Fix margin and body background color mismatch when reading books with a non-white/black color scheme

    Closes tickets: 1985058
    Content server: Fix long tapping in the notes edit area incorrectly changing the highlight extent

    Closes tickets: 1983271
    Google search engine: Fix for different URL encoding used by Google servers in Portugal
    Check library: Fix vacuum not running on FTS db

New news sources

    Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by bugmen00t

Improved news sources

    Wirtschaft Woche
    Scientific American
    Popular Science
    Mediapart
    MIT Technology Review
    Indian Express
    Eenadu

https://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

Changelog

    Spring Boot version update
    Plantuml version update
    Bug fixes

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http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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Whats new:>>

    Includes a fix where the aax directory is accidentally deleted if completely empty.
    Adds "PDF:" section to the Book Info Panel where the user can click on the PDF to view it directly.
    Adds a number of improved error messages for unexpected behavior, such as out of disk space.

https://openaudible.org/

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Whats new:>>

    Move deleted files to trash (when possible)
    Add AsciidocFX icon to the app
    Add progress indicator to taskbar (when possible)
    Fix auto updater issue
    Fix issue to show images from https://
    Bug fixes

http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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New features

    Conversion pipeline: Add support for !important when flattening CSS rules

    Closes tickets: 1987011
    Content server: Use the chapter title as the base bookmark name when creating new bookmarks

    Closes tickets: 1986786
    Allow changing the search order when clicking on items in the Tag browser (Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser->Hierarchy and searching)
    Check library: Make vacuuming the full text database optional as it is very slow and memory intensive

    Closes tickets: 1986500
    Tag browser: Move the preferences for controlling the order and display of categories in the Tag browser from Preferences->Tweaks to Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser

    Closes tickets: 1987235
    User category editor: Hide items not visible in the Tag browser

    Closes tickets: 1984121
    Allow adding a button to show the Manage categories window to the toolbars via Preferences->Toolbars & menus
    Google metadata download: When excluding results from a web search because they don't match the specified title/author ignore diacritics, accents, etc.

Bug fixes

    E-book viewer: Lookup: Google dictionary: Add some padding at the left and right margins

    Closes tickets: 1986963
    E-book viewer: Lookup word in Google dictionary: Fix meanings of some words not being shown in the user's preferred language

    Closes tickets: 1985855
    Fix calibredb backup_metadata --all operating only on dirty books not all books

    Closes tickets: 1987390
    Do not VACUUM FTS db when exporting library as it can be very slow

    Closes tickets: 1987557
    Windows: Nicer error message when attempting to run viewer/editor on machine without MediaPack installed
    Edit book: Reports: Fix rendering of images in the images report table
    Content server: Fix formatting of dates for custom columns using ISO format

    Closes tickets: 1986412

New news sources

    Brhat by Vishwas Vasuki
    Cachys Blog by Volker Heggemann
    Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by bugmen00t

Improved news sources

    Live Law and Live Mint
    Financial Times and MIT Technology Review
    Business Standard and Indian Express
    Nautilus
    High Country News
    Outlook Business 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

Bug Fixes

    double width of new Find Replace icons to make them easier to access
    improve new Find Replace icon tooltips to be include short name on top
    fix bug that caused file rename changes to fail when updating smil
    Metadata Editor will now strip out unneeded xmlns:dc attributes on dc tags
    Metadata Editor is now more robust to language codes that have incorrect case in the metadata
    clarify Create HTML ToC menu entry works from existing ToC
    prevent indavertent "" chars be treated like escapes when updating metadata
    fix MetaEditor nit of not auto adding "aut" role to Author metadata for epub2
    make Spellcheck Editor count align column numerically (right)

New Features

    add ability for a user-template*.xhtml and user-template*.css be read from Sigil Prefs to create new empty xhtml and css files
    updated to very latest MathJax version 3.2.2 for mathml support in Preview
    add ability to cycle through 2 different custom stylesheets (and none at all) for use with Preview

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

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Changelog

    New:

    Add Romanian translation thanks for the effort from community
    Improve chapter analysis algorithm

    Fix:

    Text covered by the scrollbar under scroll mode
    Popup not showing up on touch screen
    TTS issue when sliding animation is on
    Translation issue when switching between Google and Bing
    Cover length-width ratio issue

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

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Whats new:>>

    Fix Showing Firebug on preview
    Fix attribute resolution issue

http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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New features

    Kobo driver: support the new Kobo Clara 2e
    When running calibre with the --with-library command line flag and calibre is already running, switch to the specified library in calibre

    Closes tickets: 1989631
    E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when deleting a custom highlight style

    Closes tickets: 1988443
    Do not show the virtual libraries tab bar when no virtual libraries are present

    Closes tickets: 1988609
    Tag mapper: When specifying the replacement tag allow completion from the tags in the currently open library
    Template language: New functions strcasecmp() and to_hex()

Bug fixes

    Comments editor: Workaround for Qt inserting invalid font-weight when converting a paragraph to a heading

    Closes tickets: 1989177
    E-book viewer: When displaying highlights dont group highlights from different chapters when the chapter titles are identical

    Closes tickets: 1988590
    Tag browser: Fix error if a User category contains a reference to a deleted custom column
    When sending books by email to the Kindle and PocketBook email delivery services use random subject and filenames consisting of simple English letters to try to workaround various bugs in their email processing code

    Closes tickets: 1989282

Improved news sources

    The Wall Street Journal
    Open Magazine
    The Baffler
    Dark Reading
    New York Times
    NYTimes Cooking
    NYTimes Sports Beat
    Outlook Magazine
    Foreign Affairs

https://calibre-ebook.com