Calibre 3.41.3 [Update]

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 3.41 new features:

Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
Content server: Add an option to control which book list mode is used by default for new users (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Choose book list mode)
Content server: Allow clicking on book cover in details page to read the book. Closes tickets: 1819058
Amazon metadata plugin: Add a option to use the mobi-asin to find books. Closes tickets: 1823520
E-book viewer: Allow specifying ToC hrefs via the --open-at command line parameter. Closes tickets: 1656573
Tag Mapper: Allow Title-casing of tags. Closes tickets: 1823097
Manage authors dialog: Add an entry to the right click menu to show books by the current author in the main book list. Closes tickets: 1821992
Lots of internal changes to calibre"s codebase to prepare it for Python 3 support.

Bug fixes:

Content server: Fix links to external resources in book details and the viewer not working
Content server: Fix using a bookmark to load the book list not working if server is password protected. Closes tickets: 1819025
Content server: Book details page: Fix close button not going back to book list after using Next/previous buttons. Closes tickets: 1819060
Kobo driver: Fix update device metadata setting not being saved. Also fix book language not being set correctly on newer firmware.
PDF Output: Fix "stroke-dasharray" lines in SVG images in the input document not being rendered correctly. Closes tickets: 1821923
Fix searching for authors on amazon not working because of a change in the amazon URL structure. Closes tickets: 1822532
Cover grid: Check for cover size change due to screen scale change on every paint event and invalidate cache if there is a change. Closes tickets: 1723972
Edit book: Fix Option key + ; not working in the editor. Closes tickets: 1823040
Edit book: Fix pasting images into a book with no Images folder not working correctly. Closes tickets: 1817405
Confirm cancel on library restore dialog. Closes tickets: 1823204
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not being applied for some options. Closes tickets: 1821968
Fix using --insert-metadata with ebook-convert not inserting the title and author metadata from the source document
Adding books: When adding with auto-merge and auto-convert enabled, also run conversions for books into which the added files are merged. Closes tickets: 1822018
version 3.41.1 fixes a regresion in the previous release that broke connecting to Calibre Companion and similar apps wirelessly. Closes tickets: 1825472

New news sources

The New Criterion by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

Il Post
Le Monde Edition Abonnes Papier
Le Temps
NASA
1843
derStandard
LA Times

v3.41.1, 3.41.2, 3.41.3 changes:

Versions 3.41.1, 3.41.2, 3.41.3 fix various regressions in the previous release that affect a few people. Closes tickets: 1825472, 1825494, 1825542

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