Calibre 5.17.0

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 5.17.0 new features:

E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image. Closes tickets: 1926484
Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu. Closes tickets: 1923724
E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter. Closes tickets: 1851908
E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards. Closes tickets: 1925038
E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size. Closes tickets: 1925294

Bug fixes

Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of fixing some rare and hard to reproduce crashes
Windows MTP driver: Set modified and created times when putting files/folders on device. Also read modified time correctly.
Windows: E-book viewer: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled. Closes tickets: 1918591
Fix a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values. Closes tickets: 1925378
Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes
E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected. Closes tickets: 1926518
Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags. Closes tickets: 1925247
E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up. Closes tickets: 1925988
E-book viewer: Right clicking when text is selected should extend the selection instead of doing nothing. Closes tickets: 1925390
Fix settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is closed
DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images
Closes tickets: 1926025
Content server viewer: Fix mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights. Closes tickets: 1925961
E-book viewer: Fix read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable
E-book viewer: Fix navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode