Calibre 5.23

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 5.23 new features:

Annotations browser: Show highlight color in the preview panel. Closes tickets: 1934204
TXTZ format: Store type of text formatting in the metadata and use it automatically when converting from TXTZ
Edit metadata dialog: Allow holding Ctrl and clicking the item editor buttons to instead open the manage dialog. Closes tickets: 1934043

Bug fixes

Annotations browser: Fix searching for words in languages such as Chinese that do not have word delimiters not working. Closes tickets: 1929325
News download: Fix URLs with spaces in them not being downloaded since calibre 5.0
When searching for books by an author from the manage authors dialog, use exact matches. Closes tickets: 1933989
MOBI Output: Fix invalid color specification as plain numbers causing conversion to fail. Closes tickets: 1933797
MOBI Output: Fix invalid text indent specification causing conversion to fail. Closes tickets: 1933684
Linux: Drop the unmaintained dbus-python in favor of jeepney for DBUS
Edit book: Workaround for Qt bug that caused the panel sizes in the editor to not be remembered across sessions

Improved news sources

The Guardian and the Observer
National Geographic
Handelsblatt
Huffington Post

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