Name: calibre
Author: Kovid Goyal

calibre is the one stop solution to all your e-book needs.
 You can use calibre to catalog your books, fetch metadata for them automatically, convert them from and to all the various e-book formats, send them to your e-book reader devices, read the books on your computer, edit the books in a dedicated e-book editor and even make them available over the network with the built-in Content server. You can also download news and periodicals in e-book format from over a thousand different news and magazine websites.

calibre

New features:
 <ol>
 <li>KEPUB Output: Add an option to generate KEPUB files that have better text justification at the cost of gaps in highlighting when used on the Kobo (Closes tickets: 2107778)</li>
 <li>E-book viewer: Allow the background image specified in the Style section of the viewer preferences to extend under the page margins as well</li>
 </ol>
 Bug fixes:
 <ol>
 <li>E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "show book in main calibre program" link (Closes tickets: 2110117)</li>
 <li>News download: Fix Next/Previous links not working when the pointed to article failed to download</li>
 <li>E-book viewer: Handle links to missing internal files with an error popup rather than becoming non-functional</li>
 <li>E-book viewer: Fix some links not being processed correctly for very large EPUB files with many internal HTML files</li>
 <li>Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes</li>
 <li>Metadata review dialog: Fix merging of tags not working correctly</li>
 <li>Wayland: Workaround Qt/Wayland bug that prevents the menu of the Layout button from showing (Closes tickets: 2109755)</li>
 <li>Prevent recursion when creating base temporary folder if something on system deletes the created temporary folder (Closes tickets: 2109612)</li>
 </ol>
 New news sources:
 <ol>
 <li>Frieze Magazine by Kabonix</li>
 </ol>
 Improved news sources:
 <ol>
 <li>NYTimes Book Review</li>
 <li>Washington Post</li>
 <li>tagesschau</li>
 <li>Hindu</li>
 <li>Economist</li>
 <li>Economist Espresso</li>
 </ol>

New features:
 <ol>
 <li>Cover grid: Allow configuring different backgrounds for light and dark mode in Preferences-&gt;Look &amp; feel-&gt;Cover grid</li>
 <li>E-book viewer: Further speedup first open of large EPUB files by another 30%</li>
 <li>Metadata review dialog: Add merge comments action</li>
 </ol>
 Bug fixes:
 <ol>
 <li>Kobo driver: Fix viewing of KEPUB files from the device view in calibre not working</li>
 <li>Fix a regression in 8.1 that broke displaying of the debug log when running in debug mode</li>
 <li>E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.0 that caused the clock to display an extra p after the time (Closes tickets: 2106280)</li>
 </ol>
 New news sources:
 <ol/>
 Improved news sources:
 <ol>
 <li>GoComics</li>
 <li>Internazionale</li>
 <li>New York Times</li>
 <li>SCMP</li>
 <li>The Hindu</li>
 <li>Barrons</li>
 </ol>

New features:
 <ol>
 <li>Kobo driver: Add support for new Tolino firmware</li>
 <li>Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in Preferences-&gt;Output options-&gt;MOBI Output to have the driver mark all books sent to the device as personal documents</li>
 </ol>
 Bug fixes:
 <ol>
 <li>Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo</li>
 <li>macOS: Fix opening book folder or PDF files for books with square brackets in the title not working (Closes tickets: 2105884)</li>
 <li>Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns</li>
 <li>E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby search expression is used (Closes tickets: 2104850)</li>
 <li>KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML files without an encoding declaration (Closes tickets: 2105424)</li>
 <li>macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused failures in the E-book viewer when updating annotations for books with a large number of annotations</li>
 <li>Version 8.2.1 fixes an error when clicking on format links in the book details panel (Closes tickets: 2106205)</li>
 </ol>
 New news sources:
 <ol/>
 Improved news sources:
 <ol>
 <li>The Economist</li>
 <li>Reuters</li>
 <li>Private eye</li>
 </ol>

New features:
 <ol>
 <li>Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to edit it with an external program (Closes tickets: 2103833)</li>
 <li>Virtual library tabs: When the tabs are locked prevent them from being re-ordered as well (Closes tickets: 2104325)</li>
 <li>FreeBSD: Add support for connecting to devices, contributed by Guido Falsi</li>
 </ol>
 Bug fixes:
 <ol>
 <li>macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused calibre:// URLs to no longer work (Closes tickets: 2103949)</li>
 <li>macOS: Fix a regression in calibre 8 that prevented icons in menus from being rendered (Closes tickets: 2103777)</li>
 <li>Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation settings not being applied correctly when generating KEPUB to put on the device</li>
 <li>KEPUB Output: Include leading whitespace in kobo sentence span tags. This prevents unsightly breaks when highlighting across formatted text on the Kobo (Closes tickets: 2103926)</li>
 <li>Content server: Fix FB2 books not readable via the in-browser viewer (Closes tickets: 2103846)</li>
 <li>Edit book: Add text narration: Fix preferred voice for language setting being ignored</li>
 <li>E-book viewer: Use IPC to update annotations when calibre is running. Avoids possible loss of annotations in the Annotations browser due to db being locked (Closes tickets: 2103990)</li>
 <li>Ensure calibre temp files are deleted even on program crash</li>
 <li>Fix incorrect minimums on font size changing controls in viewer (Closes tickets: 2103870)</li>
 <li>Fix regression in previous release causing incorrect rendering of layout menu on some macOS machines</li>
 <li>Fix archive formats such as ZIP not being indexed for full text search (Closes tickets: 2100891)</li>
 <li>Version 8.1.1 fixes a regression causing an error that does not affect functionality on startup on macOS</li>
 </ol>
 New news sources:
 <ol/>
 Improved news sources:
 <ol>
 <li>Horizons</li>
 <li>Economist</li>
 <li>Granta</li>
 </ol>

The one stop solution to all your e-book needs

calibre

The one stop solution to all your e-book needs

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