Calibre 5.3.0

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 5.3 new features:

Tag browser: When grouping items by first letter if adjacent letters have few entries combine them into a single group.
Can be controlled via an option in Preferences->Look & fee->Tag browser to combine "first letters" together if there are a small number of items under adjacent letters
Viewer: Allow displaying the current page / total pages in the header/footer. Useful in paged mode to see exactly how many pages are left. Closes tickets: 1899163
Viewer search panel: Show more result context in a tooltip when hovering over a search result. Closes tickets: 1899834
DOCX Input: Add support for Word controls used to rotate or flip images
Only works with output formats such as EPUB that support CSS transforms
Viewer image pop-up: Allow maximizing/minimizing the window. Closes tickets: 1899762
Edit metadata dialog: Use only a single line for custom column date fields
Add an item to search for categories to the category editor context menu. Closes tickets: 1899341
Category editor: Add a right click menu to change case of the selected entries. Closes tickets: 1899316

Bug fixes:

Fix a regression in 5.0 that caused performance of dialogs that contain title/series/tags edit fields to be very poor with large libraries. Closes tickets: 1898221
Fix a regression in 5.0 that caused some pop-up menus to appear on the wrong monitor in multi-monitor setups
macOS: Fix a long standing bug that prevented drag and drop of multiple items
Windows: Fix a regression that broke scanning for default programs for the Open with action
Windows: Fix a regression in 5.0 causing some MOBI files with non-BMP characters not being processed correctly. Closes tickets: 1898894
E-book viewer: Fix scrolling past the end of chapter boundaries not working in books that have negative margins
Edit metadata dialog: fix incorrect rendering of custom column names that start with emoji. Closes tickets: 1899466
Quickview: Fix nothing shown after clearing the search. Closes tickets: 1899318
Dark mode: Fix radio buttons having no outline. Closes tickets: 1900022
Annotations browser: When showing a book in the calibre library that is not currently visible, display an error. Closes tickets: 1900066

New news sources:

Deutsche Welle by VoHe

Improved news sources:

Reuters

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