Calibre 5.16.1 [Update]

calibre

Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer.

It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Calibre's features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats, giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.

Calibre 5.14.0 new features:

Allow auto scrolling through the list of books by pressing the X key or right clicking on the cover browser. Closes tickets: 1917634
Useful to have a "slideshow" of book covers. The speed of scrolling can be controlled in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser
E-book viewer: Speed up first time open for EPUB files with lots of styling
E-book viewer preferences: Allow searching for keyboard shortcuts
Edit book: Allow editing WEBP images
Various improvements to the template language, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573
E-book viewer: Show the current progress percentage in the bottom bar of the viewer controls. This can be customized in the viewer preferences under Headers and footers. Closes tickets: 1921610
E-book viewer: Add an option under Preferences->Miscellaneous to not restore open panels such as Search, Table of Contents etc on restart. Closes tickets: 1921689
When exporting highlights as text or markdown also output top level chapter titles
Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se. Closes tickets: 1922327
Preferences->Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book. Closes tickets: 1922591
MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software. Closes tickets: 1922341
DOCX Input: When converting embedded fonts, replace spaces in the filename with underscores to keep the execrable epubcheck happy. Closes tickets: 1921793
E-book viewer: Selection bar: Add keyboard shortcuts for all buttons. Hover over a button in the bar to see the shortcut

Bug fixes:

tag, as it is pointless and causes the execrable epubcheck to complain. Closes tickets: 1922570

FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed. Closes tickets: 1924232
Metadata comments editor: Fix setting block alignment destroying other block level properties. Closes tickets: 1924187
E-book viewer: Fix margins not being adjusted immediately when preferences are changed
Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option. Closes tickets: 1921604
Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the
E-book viewer: Improve scrolling behavior when extending the selection using keyboard shortcuts
E-book viewer: Fix read percent for HTML files that are rendered in a single screen being 0% rather than 100%
E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights. Closes tickets: 1924598
CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that dont specify a character encoding. Closes tickets: 1922503
EPUB2 metadata: Read ISBNs in identifier elements without schemes if they are valid ISBNs and no properly identified isbns are present
Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites. Closes tickets: 1922309
Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores

New news sources:

Los Danieles – Columnas sin techo by CAVALENCIA

Improved news sources:

New Scientist
Irish Times
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The Straits Times

Calibre 5.16.1 fixes:

CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata. Closes tickets: 1924703
Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin. Closes tickets: 1924824
Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats. Closes tickets: 1924767
Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values. Closes tickets: 1924675
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that causes the viewer to ignore page-break CSS properties (in 5.16.1)
Fix a regression that broke using stored templates (in 5.16.1)
Fix auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1). Closes tickets: 1924875
E-book viewer: Fix jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1). Closes tickets: 1924890
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke changing keyboard shortcuts in the viewer preferences (in 5.16.1). Closes tickets: 1924853
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke using the delete key to delete highlights (in 5.16.1)