Versie 2.10 van Calibre is uitgekomen. Calibre is een opensource- en crossplatform-e-bookbeheerprogramma. Het kan onder andere alle relevante informatie en kaftafbeeldingen opzoeken, en e-boeken converteren om ze geschikt te maken voor de diverse soorten e-readers. Verder kan het programma kranten, tijdschriften en nieuwsartikelen op basis van rss-feeds omzetten in e-bookformaat, en kunnen er boeken worden aangeschaft bij de bekende webwinkels. In versie 2.0 is onder meer overgestapt op Qt5 voor de gebruikersinterface en zijn er verbeteringen met Android-devices onder OS X. In deze uitgave zijn verder nog de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Driver for the PocketBook Lux 2 with latest firmware. Closes tickets: 1390720
- Review downloaded metadata: Add suggestions for the tags, authors, publishers and series fields. Suggestions will pop-up as you type. Closes tickets: 1390887
- Add Books: Improve performance when adding large numbers of books at once.
- Add Books: Allow adding books from multiple ZIP/RAR archives, each containing many books, by right clicking on the Add Books and choosing 'Add from Archive'.
- Metadata download: Prioritize results that have the same language as the current calibre user interface language.
- Edit Book: Make the CSS used for styling the generated HTML Table of Contents user customizable. More information.
New news sources
- E-book viewer: Fix popup footnotes not working on windows.
- Fix saving of searches that use the backslash to escape special characters not working. Closes tickets: 1392052
- Save to disk: When multiple books end up with the same file name because they have the same metadata, automatically adjust the filename to make it unique. Closes tickets: 863472
- Fix ebook editor global menu not working on Unity when started from inside calibre.
- Get Books: Update the Amazon European store plugins for website changes.
- Edit Book: Fix handling of XML unsafe characters (like <, > and &) inside <style> tags
- Linux: Fix regression on Unity that prevented some keyboard shortcuts from working because of the global menu bar. Closes tickets: 1390901
- Amazon metadata download: Do not prefer results with an ISBN, since Amazon now lists a large number of ISBN less titles.
- Amazon metadata download: Fix cover not being found for some books because of a website change at amazon.com.
- Conversion: Fix incorrect conversion of east-asian characters in CSS class names. Closes tickets: 1390527
Improved news sources
- Various German news sources by Bernd Boehm
- The Daily WTF by Jelle van der Waa
- LWN Weekly
- Scinexx
- Ming Pao
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