FunkyBuddha Posted November 21, 2023 Share #1 Posted November 21, 2023 (edited) calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts. Save time on managing your e-book collection Use it everywhere and with anything Comprehensive e-book viewer Download news/magazines from the web Share and backup your library easily Edit the books in your collection Satisfy every e-book need and get support Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Edited February 9 by FunkyBuddha 1 2 Link to comment
FunkyBuddha Posted December 2, 2023 Author Share #2 Posted December 2, 2023 Release: 7.1 [23 Nov, 2023] New features Notes editor: When pasting HTML with images offer to download remote images in the pasted content Bug fixes Fix regression in 7.0 that broke restore of db from backups Content server: Fix newly added books on homepage not restricted to the books the logged in user is allowed to access When starting in system tray do not flash the main window briefly Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Notes editor: Fix spurious error message when saving a note that contains pasted HTML that refers to an image Fix a regression that caused the unknown/unset date to incorrectly be displayed/edited as a date in the year AD 101 in some timezones Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Comments editor: Fix data file links not working Linux installer: Check that the user has libxcb-cursor.so.0 installed. If not quit early with an error message asking them to install it LRF Output: Fix a regression in 7.0 that broke conversion to LRF Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. New news sources The World Ahead by unkn0wn Improved news sources Substack Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link to comment
FunkyBuddha Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share #3 Posted December 17, 2023 Release: 7.2 [15 Dec, 2023] New features Content server: Also listen for all incoming IPv6 connections by default, not just IPv4 Book details: Allow deleting notes from the right click menu easily Bug fixes Windows: Edit book: Fix a crash when using the check book tool with a book that contains malformed markup, in calibre 7 Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Windows: Improve flickering at startup due to a Qt regression in calibre 7 Windows: Fix moving the main window causing popup/floating windows to be resized in calibre 7 due to yet another Qt regression Fix detection of existing books on the Tolino Vision 6 Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Linux: Fix external applications not being launched under Wayland in calibre 7 because of a bug in Qt Linux: Fix network requests failing under Fedora in calibre 7 Improved news sources Reuters Scientific American New Yorker Times of India infzm singtaohk Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link to comment
FunkyBuddha Posted January 6 Author Share #4 Posted January 6 New features Tag browser: Allow displaying buttons next to items that have notes or links for easy access. To enable these use Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser Font subsetting: Preserve all OpenType layout features. This makes the subset font files larger but ensures there is no visual degradation when using the subsetted font files in different contexts. Bug fixes macOS: Fix main calibre window not remembering its size on restart Edit book: Fix the "Show changes" window moving down by a few pixels every time it is opened Amazon metadata download: Fixes for various changes to amazon website markup Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. E-book viewer: When looking up words via Google in Europe pre-approve the GDPR consent cookie Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Windows: Content server: Fix regression in previous release that broke testing for local connections Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Windows: Fix a regression that caused selections in the Book details panel to be invisible New news sources Hindustan Times Print Edition by unkn0wn Improved news sources Foreign Policy Business Standard Il Post Indian Express Washington Post Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link to comment
FunkyBuddha Posted January 19 Author Share #5 Posted January 19 Release: 7.4 [19 Jan, 2024] New features Add support for the Supernote A6X2 Narrow layout: Place the cover browser above the book list when the window has a narrow aspect ratio. Can be controlled via Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser Category notes browser: Add a button to search for books in the currently selected category Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Keyboard shortcut to toggle main window layout (Alt+Shift+L) Add the possibility to assign keyboard shortcuts to the tag browser sort functions Bug fixes Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the cover browser to not close when it is used as a separate window Fix a regression in the previous release that caused comments in the Book details panel to be rendered below rather than at the side of the other information Edit book: Fix highlighting of special character not changed immediately after it is edited, only after a subsequent action Move Preferences to the left in the default toolbar, making it less likely to be hidden behind an expander button on small screens Improved news sources LiveMint Foreign Policy New Scientist Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link to comment
FunkyBuddha Posted February 9 Author Share #6 Posted February 9 Release: 7.5.1 [09 Feb, 2024] New features Allow fine tuning the colors used in the calibre interface via Preference->Look & feel->Main interface->User interface colors Note that calibre no longer follows system colors on Linux in light mode (the only place where it used to follow system colors). However, there is a convenient button in the manage colors dialog to import the system colors. Full text search window: Add actions to the context menu to open the book at the clicked on result. Also allow using the view book shortcut to open the currently selected search result Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. When showing the Full text search dialog, pre populate the search box with the contents of the main calibre search box if the main search box contains a simple search Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Bug fixes Windows: Fix a regression in 7.0 that caused images referring to files on the disk within comments columns to not display in some circumstances E-book viewer: Fix clock showing hour as zero instead of 12 between 12 and 1 am/pm Edit book: When wrapping selected text in a tag, preserve the selection after wrapping Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Content server: Fix a periodic spurious error message when reading books in offline mode Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Fix a regression in 7.0 caused by a regression in Qt that would result in calibre hanging rarely when using the cover browser view Fix custom template functions not useable in save to disk templates Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Fix a regression in 7.2 that caused the popup used for editing fields in the book list to be mis-positioned on very wide monitors Version 7.5.1 fixes a bug in 7.5.0 where calibre would not start up using dark colors when the system was in dark mode on some windows installs and another bug that could cause errors when using cover grid mode with covers stored in CMYK colorspace Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. New news sources ugeskriftet by morusn Martin Fowler and Gitbug Blogs by Lucas Lois Improved news sources El Diplo Science News Barrons Financial Times Business Today Le Monde Scientific American Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link to comment
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