Calibre 3.40.1

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.

Calibre 3.40.1 new features:

TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation.
Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the book by right clicking on the existing Ids.
Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the "Search the internet" feature via Preferences->Sharing over the net->Search the internet
Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library
Allow adding files to selected book records from the clipboard. To use copy a file from windows explorer, right click the Add books button and choose: Add files to selected books from clipboard
Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu option to search using the raw search expression.
Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next match
Windows: Add a button to Preferences->Sharing over the net to set calibre to run when the computer starts

Bug fixes:

Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to library and delete after when copying a duplicated book.
Edit book: Fix pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) not working
Content server: Fix {id} not working in the custom list template
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not saving title and format information.
macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor blink time
FB2 Output: Fix comments from the input document not present in the output.
calibredb: Fix adding books with an OPF file to a remote server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file
TXT Input: Fix option to remove indents at the start of lines breaking conversion of markdown documents.
EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in exclusion rules.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix multiple books with the same title but different authors in a genre not being listed
Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page
Version 3.40.1 fixes a bug in 3.40 that could prevent calibre starting when using a custom date column

New news sources

Quanta Magazine by lui1
El Periodico Mediterraneo by benages

Improved news sources

Scientific American
Taipei Times
Harpers Magazine
General Knowledge Today
Granma
South China Morning Post
New York Times (Web)
China Daily
1843
Pro Physik
Caravan Magazine=
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