Versie 5.18 van Calibre is uitgekomen. Dit opensource-e-bookbeheerprogramma is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en macOS. Het kan onder meer alle relevante informatie en omslagafbeeldingen 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. Ook kunnen met Calibre boeken worden aangeschaft bij de bekende webwinkels. In versie 5.0 is onder meer de overstap naar Python 3 gemaakt, zijn er diverse verbeteringen in de e-bookviewer aangebracht en is er nu ook een dark mode voor de e-bookviewer en contentserver. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New featuresBug fixes
- Content server viewer: Improved search functionality Searching can now be done for whole words and regular expressions. And all search results are listed at once with some context for easy navigation.
- E-book viewer: Allow fullscreening the image popup.Closes tickets: 1928596.
- E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents at a particular level by right clicking on one item of that level and choosing the option to expand/collapse.
- E-book viewer: Add shortcuts shift+home and shift+end to extend current selection to start/end of line.
- Book details: When creating rules to convert identifiers to URLs allow using {id_unquoted} to avoid quoting the identifier value. Closes tickets: 1927520.
- Review downloaded metadata: Allow double clicking on a cover to see it at a larger size. Closes tickets: 1927062.
- Annotations browser: Add a Refresh button. Closes tickets: 1927012.
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- Edit book: Fix ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments.
- Fix search and replace on identifiers not working if the replaced value has colons. Closes tickets: 1928579.
- Annotations browser: Sort the entries in order of position in book. Closes tickets: 1922691.
- ToC editor: Dark mode: Fix colors in location selection panel not dark.
- E-book viewer: Fix right or shift-clicking to extend selection not shrinking selection when the click is inside the selection. Closes tickets: 1926793.
- Avoid spurious errors on multiple simultaneous calibre launches. Closes tickets: 1927546.
- E-book viewer: Ignore mouse scroll events that would turn pages when editing notes. Closes tickets: 1925961.
- E-book viewer: Fix sorting bookmarks by title not working.
- Windows WPD driver: Fix an error reading the filesystem on some MTP based devices
- IEEE Spectrum
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