FYI@Librarian: Calibre 3.24.2 [Update] @ Open Source e-Book Library Management Application

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Calibre 3.24.2 [Update] @ Open Source e-Book Library Management Application

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.

New features in Calibre 3.24:

· Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.

· PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.

· PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates

· Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel

· Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.

· Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities

· Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks

· ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.

Bug fixes

PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working
DOCX Output: Fix < pre > tags not being converted correctly.
DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list.
Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly
Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top
Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities
EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
Fix throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars
Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed.
Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux.
Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for automatic trims.
Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian translation
BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings.
calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after.

New news sources

The Federalist by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources

· The New York Times Book Review

· New York Times

· Le Devoir

Changes in Calibre 3.24.1:

Version 3.24.1 fixes a regression in the 3.24 in the editor that caused syncing between the editor and the Preview panel/Live CSS panel to not work correctly

Changes in Calibre 3.24.2: