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

Changelog

    Support for multiple accounts (File: Manage Accounts)
    Improved translations for Italian language (Thank you RB)
    Added translations for installer
    Fix Linux issue with RPM installer for zypper

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https://openaudible.org/

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Whats new:>>

    Improvements for multiple accounts.
    Fix tag editor text entry field widths
    Update JDK to 18+10
    Fix some random connect/log-in issues
    Use longer file name as the default
    Allow more books when product ID matches but ASIN differ

https://openaudible.org/

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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

    Noted:

    This is a developer release which is NOT recommended for general use. Please visit https://koodoreader.com for stable release.

    New:

    Dictionary optimization
    UI optimization
    Now you can adjust book margin in single and scrolling mode
    Using space key to navigate to the next page is back

    Fix:

    Extra spacing between each paragragh
    Repeated highlights when selecting multiple paragraphs
    Text blocked when entering fullscreen mode
    Wrong book displayed when opening book in the main window
    Parsing issue with some mobi books
    Popup not showing when selecting texts on touch screen (Please turn on touch screen mode in the setting)
    Text blocked when enabling sliding animation

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

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Whats new:>>

Big improvements for getting Chapter Information.
New Job Status Window, accessible from the Control Menu. (Perhaps will move to Summary Panel area)
Improve Multiple Accounts
Improve Account Manager Dialog.
Fix support for accounts with same user name in different regions
Address some layout issues for Debian linux

https://openaudible.org/

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Librum is an application designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.

It's not just an e-book reader. With Librum, you can manage your own online library and access it from any device anytime, anywhere. It has features like note-taking, bookmarking, and highlighting, while offering customization to make it as personal as you want!

Librum also provides free access to over 70,000 books and personal reading statistics while being free and completely open source.

License: Open Source

Whats new:>>

    Added Arabic translation and support for RTL languages
    Added 'Open With Librum' support for Windows and Linux
    Changed to only using 'Name' instead of first and last name
    Bug fixes

https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum

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New features

    E-book viewer: Allow saving current settings in "profiles" that can be quickly and easily swapped between

    Closes tickets: 1979022

    To create a profile or switch to a previously saved profile access "Profiles" from the viewer controls or press the `Alt+P` shortcut.
    Edit book: Add a shortcut `Ctrl+M` to merge selected files

    Closes tickets: 2053144
    Get books: Add support for Amazon Mexico
    A new toolbar button to show all available actions in sub menus. Can be added via `Preferences->Toolbars & menus`
    Edit book: Allow selecting multiple books to edit at once, opening all selected books in separate editor instances

Bug fixes

    Cover grid: Fix dragging the mouse while holding shift to extend the selection not working well

    Closes tickets: 2054617
    E-book viewer: Fix doing a multi-page selections sometimes causing the start of the selection to move backwards

    Closes tickets: 2054934
    Edit book: Live CSS: Fix regression causing incorrect colors in calibre 7
    Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 7 that caused images in long text columns to not be displayed in the tooltip for the tooltip
    Fix disabled items in menus having blurry text
    Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when doing a search/sort on some browsers

New news sources

    The Week UK by unkn0wn
    Andhrajyothy by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

    New Yorker
    Moneycontrol
    Swarajya Mag
    nautil.us
    Pro Physik

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Whats new:>>

Added Job Status Progress indicator
Added ability to disable Job Status Indicator in prefrences dialog
Added ability to import credentials from the Libation application
Improved and fixed bug in Account Manager Dialog
Improved font rendering and layout, especially for Debian and large fonts
Changed file naming for longer file names. This helps when there is a series of books with the same short title but longer "full title".

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.

Freemium

Whats new:>>

Installer improvements
Minor debug changes

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

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Asciidoc FX is a book / document editor to build PDF, Epub, Mobi and HTML books, documents and slides.

Freeware

Changelog

    Linux Arm Package
    Key handler bug fixes
    Fix https issues

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http://www.asciidocfx.com/

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New features

    Trim image: Allow specifying the size of the trim rectangle using numbers

    Closes tickets: 2056116
    Full text search: Allow pressing Ctrl+S to select the current book in the calibre book list

    Closes tickets: 2056664
    Speed up scrolling through the book list book-by-book by only redrawing the book details panel when scrolling pauses
    Add a tweak under Preferences->Tweaks to set the first day of the week in popup calendars used to input dates

Bug fixes

    CHM Input: Handle CHM files with no HHC Table of Contents

    Closes tickets: 2056470
    E-book viewer: Fix a few settings such as pages per screen and header/footers not being saved in profiles
    Full text search: Ignore text inside <ruby> tags when indexing books

    Closes tickets: 2056614
    DOCX Output: Preserve spaces around soft hyphens
    Book details popup: Copy the original cover image to the clipboard even when the image is rescaled to fit into view
    Fix changing disabled colors in the UI color palette overriding non-disabled colors
    Content server: Fix deletion of viewer profiles not working

Improved news sources

    LiveMint
    Bloomberg
    Natural Geographic
    MIT Technology Review
    NY Review of Books
    Scientific American

https://calibre-ebook.com

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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

    New user interface locales: Slovenian/Slovenš?ina, and Danish/Dansk (Thorium is now translated in 25 languages). Also updated the Portuguese (Portugal) and Swedish translations (many thanks to the contributors!). Also fixed a bug with the variants of Chinese (traditional vs. simplified) and Portuguese (Portugal vs. Brazil) related to the "about Thorium" XHTML files which failed to load due to lowercase filenames vs. mixed-case language code.
    Fixed RTL Right-To-Left (Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese in Vertical Writing Mode, etc.) support in the footer bar (interactive reading progression control) and history buttons.
    Support for Japanese vertical writing mode, right-to-left direction. New option to disable RTL inversion in the user interface (several clusters of previous/next controls, play/pause button, interactive reading progression bar). New option to visually hide Ruby superscript, which (by the way) is automatically ignored during text search in order to avoid breaking character sequences inside the baseline Ruby script. Special handling of WBR Word Break Opportunities, in order to implement word-level spacing (note that character-level is now also available, using ReadiumCSS). New font families / typeface options specifically for Japanese language, not shipped in Thorium but automatically prioritised if the fonts are available in the operating system (just as before, the user can select any system font by specifying its name, but this is a different feature which exposes known typefaces that are commonly used on the web as "sensible" defaults for Japanese script, in sans-serif and serif variants for vertical and horizontal writing modes). Compatibility with the TTS readaloud and EPUB Media Overlays features (synchronised text + audio), except "simplified / captions" mode which continues to display text in horizontal writing mode. Ruby superscript / ancilliary content is automatically skipped during TTS (a future version of Thorium will need to flexibly cater for different user experiences by differentiating skippability of page breaks, image descriptions, alternative text for MathML, Ruby superscript, etc.). Improved handling of Japanese publications and documents that do not declare vertical/horizontal writing direction or that incorrectly specify RTL/LTR in the usual expected places (e.g. HTML or BODY elements, package OPF XML). Also added more robust support for publications that declare top-level page-progresion-direction RTL/LTR in the package OPF XML but change direction in some spine item HTML documents (hybrid modes).
    Fixed a number of bugs in TTS readaloud and EPUB Media Overlays which were causing the playback position to jump back to the beginning of the document (for example, when clicking on images without audio).
    Added the possibility to use TTS readaloud with EPUB publications that have Media Overlays (pre-recorded audio), by clicking the play button while holding the SHIFT+ALT key modifiers which is a common keyboard combo already used for several "alt" functionality in Thorium.
    Implemented support for text paragraphs that span across page boundaries when displaying documents in paginated mode with single or two page spreads. Now, bookmarks and other reading locations that accurately select character ranges are restored correctly (before the fix, the containing paragraph HTML element would be designated, causing a confusing shift to the previous page).
    Added handling of diacritics (accented characters) in the "find text" / "search" feature. Essentially, characters like "e" "è" "é" "ë" "ê" etc. are considered equivalent in both the query string and the targeted document text. Also implemented basic transliteration of some common ligatures (for example "egg" in French: Œuf vs. œuf vs. oeuf). More improvements are expected as we gather feedback from users in certain locales, such as with modern German language which features several commonly-used character equivalencies.
    Fixed text search bug related to CDATA in HTML and SVG fragments (e.g. <style> contents)
    Significantly improved text highlighting engine which now computes polygons and renders SVG instead of relying on basic HTML + CSS rectangular shapes. This core functionality is used in the "TTS" feature (yellow background for sentences, orange underline for words), in the "find" feature (green background and pink for the active search result) and in the upcoming "annotations" feature (all of which can reliably be used concurrently, as the drawing operations are not desctructive on the HTML/SVG DOM). Currently, 4 different types of highlights are implemented: solid translucent area background, area outline, line-by-line underline and strikethrough. Highlights are lightweight affordances that can overlap and be interacted with using the mouse / tracking device cursor, while allowing for text selection underneath. Highlights can be selectively grouped, either rendered inline (default) or displayed on the periphery of the document content in the form of non-obstructive margin indicators which are also interactive (cursor hover, click). The highlighting engine works with reflowable documents in paginated mode (single or two page spreads), in scrolling viewport, with fixed-layout documents at any zoom level, in right-to-left direction (margin indicators on the right hand side), in left-to-right (margin indicators left-aligned), in vertical writing mode (margin indicators at the top). The highlighting implementation caters for special cases such as Japanese Ruby superscript. The actual "annotations" feature is incomplete at this stage (planned for the next major release Thorium v3.0), but text highlighting text is currently exposed as a hidden feature, available only in developer builds.
    Added support for proof-of-concept sign language EPUB3 Media Overlays (text synchronised with video instead of audio). The prototype features a detachable video frame which can be resized and moved outside of Thorium's window, in order to avoid obscuring the document text during synchronised playback.
    Under the hood, Thorium now ships the latest Electron v29 which bundles Chromium v122 and NodeJS v20. This brings a range of improvements (performance, accessibility, operating system integration, etc.).
    Behind the scenes, React 18 is now used to render Thorium's user interface. Also fixed unnecessary re-renders (small performance improvement gains).
    Apple Silicon native ARM64 (aarch64) builds of Thorium are now available for optimal performance on Mac hardware (M1, M2, M3, etc.). The builds for Intel x64 / x86_64 / amd64 architecture will continue to be available in the foreseable future.
    Added a developer convenience: Linux Docker to build Thorium from MacOS Arm64 and Intel64 hardware.
    Fixed a keyboard shortcut bug which occasionally caused failures to activate after alt-tabbing into other system windows (other applications).
    Fixed handling of hyperlinks during audio playback.
    Fixed TTS continuous playback across document boundaries (now matches EPUB Media Overlays behaviour, for better UX consistency).
    Fixed an occasional Redux state diff crash (RFC lib) with large documents.
    Internal changes in preparation for a significant GUI refactoring which will improve styling, colour themes, etc. (PostCSS deprecation, introduction of SASS toolchain, new UI libraries for popup modals, etc.)
    Fixed Windows filesystem bug (forbidden characters), improved "save as" file selector used for exporting publications.
    Fixed occasional OPDS authentication bug, and display of navigation history / trail.
    Fixed missing APIAPP authentication request header (grant_type=password)

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

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Whats new:>>

HOTFIX: regression bug from v2.3 in v2.4.0 with publication metadata title which can be missing (this was previously handled gracefully, but in v2.4.0 this causes a non-fatal crash that creates an empty bookshelf ... the library of books still exists if the user just closes Thorium without adding any new books, as this would otherwise refresh the database to a clean state)

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

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Librum is an application designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.

It's not just an e-book reader. With Librum, you can manage your own online library and access it from any device anytime, anywhere. It has features like note-taking, bookmarking, and highlighting, while offering customization to make it as personal as you want!

Librum also provides free access to over 70,000 books and personal reading statistics while being free and completely open source.

License: Open Source

Changelog

Features:

    Added Tools Page
        Merge
        Extract
        Image to PDF
    Added alerts to improve feedback
    Added occasional feedback popup
    Reworked the selection menu to look more modern

Improvements:

    Improved loading animation across the application and added loading animation to more places to improve feedback
    Improved 'Save To Files' to correctly use the title and file extension as destination name
    Improved feedback when downloading a book by adding a loading animation
    Remember the folder you were in after leaving the home page and restore it correctly

Translations:

    Added Bengali translation

Fixes:

    Fixed bug causing being unable to download and read books other than pdf and epub from the cloud
    Fixed bug causing crash and locally uninstalling book when losing internet connection while reading
    Fixed crash caused by uninstalling or deleting a book while its downloading
    Fixed bug causing unselected books in multi-select mode to still be logically selected and operated upon
    Fixed book title in external book mode not being displayed
    Fixed zooming not working in external book mode
    Fixed file dialog issues
    Fixed issues with incorrect current page count in books with different page heights
    Fixed issues with the zoom combobox on the reading page

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https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum

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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

    assign menu accelerators P - &Plugins, and K - Chec&kpoints (thank you BeckyEbook)
    add ability to change keyboard focus using keyboard shortcuts or menus to BookBrowser, Preview, CodeView, ClipsWindow, and TableOfContents Windows
    preserve Media Overlay Active Classes when deleting unused classes
    Goto Link Or Style (or Ctrl-Clicking on a class will now search selectors with combinators if nothing found in normal css classes
    update to a newer Spanish hunspell dictionary
    overhaul of Building on Linux documentation
    update 3rdparty zlib to version 1.3.1 for security and other bug fixes
    update 3rdparty pcre2 to version 10.43 for security and other bug fixes
    update to Qt 6.6.2 for security fixes, accessibility improvements
    allow cancelling of Save if mend on save set and not well formed
    Windows users can now set the SIGIL_USE_FREETYPE_FONTENGINE environment variable to more fully support woff and woff2 fonts

Bug Fixes

    multiple bug fixes from Qt 6.6.2 such as the transient child window resize bug on Windows, etc
    fix QuickParser bug when parsing attribute names not properly ignoring all legal whitespace
    make OPF parsing robust to alternative whitespace usage as well
    fix creation of thumbnails of svg images in SelectFiles and Image Report for macOS
    fix svg rendering in QtSvg by filtering out desc and title tags inside text tags pre-rendering
    fix Python plugin quickparser.py to better handle svg mixed case tag names
    better handle cancelling out of plugins prior to their completion
    better handle Guide/Landmark title translations (thank you BeckyEbook)
    clean up cmake and build warnings
    fix crash on Windows when using woff/woff2 fonts

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

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New features

    E-book viewer: Highlight panel: Allow filtering the shown highlights by type of highlight

    Closes tickets: 2057929
    Conversion: Add support for the CSS text-transform property when subsetting embedded fonts
    E-book viewer: Allow displaying the view mode paged/flow in the header/footer

    Closes tickets: 2060079
    Book details popup window: Allow dropping of files to add formats/set the cover just as for the book details panel

    Closes tickets: 2059162
    Book details: Context menu: Add a menu action to remove the associated link

    Closes tickets: 2058814
    DOCX Input: Add role=doc-noteref for links to footnotes/endnotes so that they popup in more e-book readers
    Add a "Mark all selected books" to the Mark action.
    Add "Hide Empty Categories" to tag browser configuration menu

    Closes tickets: 2059169
    Supernote: Support for new device firmware
    Sort by tool: Add an action to re-apply the current sort

Bug fixes

    Grid view cover cache: Fix covers not loading when cache entries are stale
    Conversion: Do not change viewport relative font sizes used for SVG text elements

    Closes tickets: 2058798
    Conversion: Fix <style> tags inside <svg> tags not being processed

    Closes tickets: 2058798
    Get books: Update Kobo store plugin for website changes
    EPUB Input: Use a translated name for the cover page

New news sources

    Bergfreunde Blog by VoHe
    Live Law and Politico.eu by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

    Caravan
    Global Times
    New York Review of Books
    Himal Southasian
    The Week
    CBC Canada

https://calibre-ebook.com