Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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Sigil is an advanced ebook editor that provides users with comprehensive options and configuration settings. It offers support for HTML, XHTML, TXT, image and video files, and it comes wrapped in a user-friendly interface that puts emphasis on simplicity. It is capable of generating ePub files.

License: GPLv3

Changelog

Bug Fixes

    Workaround to ensure the Saved Searches Controls editor widget is movable on all platforms
    Make the External Xhtml Editor Button/Feature work with both PageEdit and non-PageEdit editors again
    Fix Preview sync when CV transitions from xhtml to css and back to xhtml
    Fix Preview sync when Find and Replace opens new tab with search target
    Fix Preview sync when Validation error clicked on
    Fix Preview sync when mathml is being used (compensate for mathjax changes)
    Fix mathml use when external MathJax directory is specified in builds on Linux
    Prevent Sigil from loading any manifested mimetype file from bad epubs, give load warning
    Make Spellcheck dialog use double-click to control search in CV, to speed paging word list.
    Prevent duplicate translated semantic names
    Fix heading tool issues after self-closed BLOCK tags
    Prevent stack overflow crashes in pcre lib due to recursion with some valid regex
    Fix second window opening on macOS when first launching app with file
    Remove [other.] semantic indicators for epub2
    Fix crash in CSS Selectors Report when using Filters

New Features:

    added Find Replace Regular Expression validator
    added SIGIL_DISABLE_VERSION_META environment variable to control writing of Sigil Version
    enable JIT compiler for pcre library to improve regex look-up performance
    update the pcre library to version 8.45 (Final EOL)

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https://github.com/user-none/Sigil

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A fresh and stylish ebook reader that allows you to customize all aspects of your collection and make the entire reading experience more immersive.

License: AGPL

Changelog

NEW

Replace the Big Sur style new icon
Book Digest is now renamed to Gao Liang
Reading options added close page turning button
No longer show loading animation when exiting reading
Add user survey, click the settings button -> user survey
All format books now support navigation menu bar
Support memorizing annotation styles
Set the new option to turn off the statistics function

FIX

Fix Dropbox authorization issue
Fix the problem that the book cannot be opened by double-clicking while the software is running
Fix some book export format issues
Fix the scrolling problem of some books
Fix the problem of books disappearing after synchronization
Fix the problem that a blank window appears after exiting full screen under macOS
Fix some style issues in my notes and highlight

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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New features

    Conversion: Insert metadata as jacket: Allow adding timestamp and publisher fields. Also allow controlling the formatting of date/time fields
    Cover browser: Add an option to view the central book by double clicking instead of single clicking (Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser)

    Closes tickets: 1937025
    Tag browser: Add actions to the configure menu to toggle the display of counts and average rating

    Closes tickets: 1936891
    Tag browser: Allow plugins to add entries to the context menu

    Closes tickets: 1936472

Bug fixes

    fetch-ebook-metadata: Fix an error when using the --cover option and no cover is found

    Closes tickets: 1938189
    HTML Input: Fix the presence of BookDesigner markup causing conversion to fail

    Closes tickets: 1936792
    TXT Input: Dont fail if the txt file references a directory as a resosource

    Closes tickets: 1936184

Improved news sources

    MSNBC
    Nature News
    Boston Globe
    Foreign Policy
    Le Monde

https://calibre-ebook.com

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OpenAudible is an cross-platform Audible audiobook manager.

With OpenAudible you can download, view, convert to MP3, and manage all your audible.com content. Best of all you can view all your Audible books in one location and automatically organize your books as an HTML library.

Shareware

Changelog

    This version fixes a number of small but significant bugs.
    Tagging of MP3 and M4B files has been improved to include summary information.
    Plex support has been improved-- if you're using plex, you may need to delete and re-encode your m4b/mp3 files.

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https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    Edit/Polish book: Remove unused CSS now also removes unreferenced stylesheets

    Closes tickets: 1939469
    E-book viewer: Add some CSS variables and classes that allow writing calibre specific CSS in ebooks. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#designing-your-book-to-work-well-with-the-calibre-viewer
    A new framework plugins can use to be notified about changes to calibre libraries
    Edit metadata dialog: When pasting into the identifiers field if the clipboard contains a URL paste it directly as a URL identifier

    Closes tickets: 1938752

Bug fixes

    E-book viewer: When displaying popup footnotes use the same writing direction as the main text for the footnote popups size and header

    Closes tickets: 1938448
    E-book viewer: Improve the text layout when looking up words in Google
    Content server viewer: Fix read aloud not working on mobile browsers

Improved news sources

    The Guardian and The Observer
    Wall Street Journal
    The Atlantic

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Changelog

    New:

    Optimization on chapter analysis algorithm
    Add book title to the window tab bar
    Add mimical background to all formats of book
    Select multiple books and batch delete, add to shelf, export
    Add default opening option for all supported formats

    Fix:

    Books in trash can't be synced
    Blurry icon on Windows
    Translation target language is always Chinese
    "destroy is null" warning
    Font family not load properly in the reader
    Window size shrinks a little every time opening a book
    Notes and highlights not showing their tags
    Theme color not working in light mode
    Unable to open book when double click

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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New features

    Dark color scheme: Use a darker blue for highlighted items

    Closes tickets: 1941013

Bug fixes

    Content server book viewer: Show a message when a search finds no matches
    MOBI Output: Fix JPEG images without any JFIF metadata not being rendered on the Kindle
    Comic input: Fix single color images having their colors changed by normalization

    Closes tickets: 1939908
    E-book viewer: Fix creating multiple highlights in a single paragraph that also contains some extra text formatting at the start causing the second and subsequent highlights to malfunction

    Closes tickets: 1940005
    Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the options in the Remove unused CSS dialog

    Closes tickets: 1939912

New news sources

    NYTimes Cooking by gourav

Improved news sources

    Boston Globe

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Changelog

    Chapter names are captured from audible (when available) and added to the converted book's meta data.
    Improved meta data for Plex -- trying to make it easy to point plex to your "books" directory and have cover art and full description available.
    Added new import file types, including zip, directory, admin helper, AA. You can import books from librivox by grabbing the m4b or zip file.
    Users that want to delete their AAX files to save space can do so and only books that have no converted file will be marked as needing to be downloaded.
    Improved documentation
    Improved upgrade experience and license messages
    Fixed bug with split by chapter.
    Added ability to retry certain downloads that fail
    Added new icons to indicate if file is being downloaded or in the download queue.. same for conversion.
    Improved redrawing of icons.

This update may require a license upgrade if your 1 year of free updates has expired. Check under "About: License..." menu item.

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https://openaudible.org/

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Whats new:>>

    This is a minor update to 3.1.1.
    It fixes an import bug where some AAX files are not imported properly.
    It also fixes a rare audio book splitting issue when the chapter titles include illegal Windows file name characters.

https://openaudible.org/

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New features

    When adding markdown (.md) or textile (.textile) files that contain references to images, automatically add them as txtz with the images

Bug fixes

    DOCX Output: Correctly convert soft hyphens in the input document to DOCX soft hyphens
    DOCX Input: Fix a bookmark at the end of a paragraph causing the bookmark at the start of the paragraph to be skipped

    Closes tickets: 1942805
    Edit book: Spell check: Fix EPUB 3 nav document not being spell checked when not in the spine

    Closes tickets: 1942773
    PDF Output: Fix a rare failure when the input document has a ToC item pointing to the last page

    Closes tickets: 1942012
    Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused drag and drop from WinZip to not work

    Closes tickets: 1942129
    TXT Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused the max line length option to not work

    Closes tickets: 1941992
    When auto converting added TXT files with image references to TXTZ use a full markdown parser to detect markdown images

New news sources

    The Week by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources

    BBC News
    Foreign Affairs

https://calibre-ebook.com

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Changelog

    New:

    Add text indent to reader option
    Import books as link, so books won't be copied to the library
    Merge reader with Word, so it can't be detected
    Optimization on chapter analysis algorithm
    More multi-selection scenarios
    Simplify installation process
    UI optimization
    Now you can choose translation target language
    New setting option to prevent accidental trigger of reader menu

    Fix:

    Background mask not working
    Some txt books can't be imported
    Image viewer icon is not fixed when scrolling the image
    Card mode not working in trash bin

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https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader

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New features

    Edit metadata dialog: Customize cover generation: Allow saving and loading cover generation settings as "themes"
    E-book viewer: Allow pressing the 0-9 keys to apply a quick highlight style

    Closes tickets: 1944614
    Book details panel: While clicking tags/authors/etc. holding down the Ctrl+Shift modifier keys now add the tag to the current search with "AND" instead of "OR" when using only Ctrl

    Closes tickets: 1943521
    Add an option to the preferences drop down menu to restart calibre without third party plugins

    Closes tickets: 1944057

Bug fixes

    Edit book: When renaming classes in style sheets only recognize class names preceded by a period

    Closes tickets: 1944562
    E-book viewer: Fix lookup in Google partially hidden due to change in Google results page markup
    Conversion dialog: Search replace expression builder: Fix incorrect search result highlighting when non-BMP unicode characters are present in the text
    E-book viewer: Fix popup footnote blank when the footnote link points to a <body> tag

    Closes tickets: 1943270
    E-book viewer: Fix jumping to highlights in text that occurs after a line break and newline character not working in paged mode

    Closes tickets: 1944433
    Kindle Output: Strip EXIF metadata from JPEG images as the Kindle renderer has issues with it

    Closes tickets: 1943495

Improved news sources

    Аргументы и Факты
    India Today

https://calibre-ebook.com

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EPub Metadata Editor is a lightweight tool that helps you edit the information of your EPub ebook files.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

Fix for some (non-standard?) opf files - mainly concerned with handling tab characters

https://github.com/benchen71/epub-metadata-editor

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New features

    Allow drag and drop of books onto formats in the Tag browser to convert them to that format

    Closes tickets: 1945890
    Allow creating sorts based on multiple columns (Add the Sort action to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars & menus)

    Closes tickets: 1945891
    Edit book: When changing a paragraph to a heading if the cursor is adjacent to a paragraph tag but not inside any tags other than body, use the adjacent tag

Bug fixes

    Auto adding: Run relevant plugins before reading metadata from the book. Matches behavior of manual adding

    Closes tickets: 1945889
    Content server: Fix category collapse by partition not working

    Closes tickets: 1945882
    Prevent Tab from causing focus to leave the Tag browser
    Edit book: See what changed: Fix non-BMP unicode characters causing highlighting of changed words to be slightly misplaced
    PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke conversion of comics that contain 1-bit images
    Edit book: Fix pressing Ctrl+Tab inserting a tab at the start of a line instead of switching tabs
    Fix a regression in the previous release that caused identifiers set by some plugins to not be saved in the database

    Closes tickets: 1945098
    Template language: Fix nesting composite columns sometimes failing

    Closes tickets: 1946342

New news sources

    Various Indian news sources by Vishvas Vasuki

Improved news sources

    Entrepreneur Magazine
    Dawn
    New York Review of Books


https://calibre-ebook.com

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Thorium Reader is the EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10, MacOS and Linux.

This EDRLab application is in constant development and aims at becoming a reference for accessing EPUB 3 publications in reflow or fixed layout format, visual narratives (DiViNa), audiobooks and even LCP protected PDF documents.

Huge efforts are made to get Thorium Reader highly accessible for visually impaired and dyslexic people.

This application is free, with no ads and no leaks of private data.

Changelog

    Electron version 14.x (fixes HTTPS LetsEncrypt + OpenSSL/BoringSSL certificate expiry bug).
    Localisation: Georgian localization ('ka').
    Accessibility: fixes screen reader ARIA labels on HTML controls.
    Keyboard interaction: left/right arrows (etc.) in contenteditable=true and textarea HTML elements must not interrupt typing / must not turn pages.
    OPDS error handling: support for "problem details" HTTP response JSON.
    Library search: lookup title and author data in publication bookshelf.
    OPDS search: URL with {searchTerms} curly braces query/path syntax must not be escaped, due to automatic URI percent encoding.
    OPDS authentication: OAuth response body was JSON content-type, must be form-urlencoded as per RFC6749.

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https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/