Calibre 5.6.0

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 5.6.0 new features:

Edit book: Show a non-modal popup for a few seconds to allow undoing file delete operations
Device books view: Add an action to the context menu to easily jump to the matching book in the calibre library view. Closes tickets: 1903418
Add ability to undo Generate cover in the Edit metadata screen, by long clicking the Generate cover button. Closes tickets: 1903270
Edit book: Allow adding tags to the list of tags for the insert tag button
calibredb add: New option --automerge to automatically merge duplicates
Add an edit notes action to the context menu in the viewer highlights panel. Closes tickets: 1905646
Content server viewer: Allow viewing images in a new window by right clicking them, matches the calibre builtin viewer behavior. Closes tickets: 1903333
Book details window: Allow opening the edit metadata window using either the keyboard shortcut or the context menu. Closes tickets: 1903403
Allow copying the current search as a calibre:// URL by right clicking the search box
Book details panel: Add entries to copy calibre:// links for the current book to the context menu
Edit book: Upgrade book: Ask whether to keep the NCX based Table of Contents

Bug fixes:

Windows: Fix calibre portable launcher not working correctly from root directory in calibre 5.5. Closes tickets: 1904310
macOS: Fix rendering of space after punctuation incorrect in Big Sur. Closes tickets: 1904505
DOCX Input: When converting images placed using the obsolete VML markup default them to being inline rather than block images. Closes tickets: 1905319
Metadata edit dialog: Fix keyboard shortcuts for bold/italic/underline not working when more than one comments editor widget is present on a single tab. Closes tickets: 1905479
When using calibre://show-book URLs and the book is not found, clear any Virtual library or search restriction and then show the book. Closes tickets: 1905113
macOS: Fix calibre:// URLs not working from other documents
Fix calibre:// URL search action not changing library if needed
annotation_count() template function displaying value for deleted annotations. Closes tickets: 1904305
Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting not recognizing ends-with selector. Closes tickets: 1905806

Improved news sources:

The BBC
Folha de Sao Paolo
Netzpolitik

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