Calibre 7.4.0

New Features
•Add a 'languages' metadata field.
This is useful if you have a multi-lingual book collection. You can now set one or more languages per book via the Edit Metadata dialog. If you want the languages column to be visible, then go to Preferences->Add your own columns and unhide the languages columns. You can also bulk set the languages on multiple books via the bulk edit metadata dialog. You can also have the languages show up in the book details panel on the right by going to Preferences->Look and Feel->Book details
•Get Books: Add XinXii store.
•Metadata download plugin for ozon.ru, enabled only when user selects russian as their language in the welcome wizard.
•Bambook driver: Allow direct transfer of PDF files to Bambook devices
•Driver for Coby MID7015A and Asus EEE Note
•Edit metadata dialog: The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D can now be used to trigger a metadata download. Also show the row number of the book being edited in the titlebar
•Add an option to not preserve the date when using the 'Copy to Library' function (found in Preferences->Adding books)
Bug Fixes
•Linux binary: Use readlink -f rather than readlink -e in the launcher scripts so that they work with recent releases of busybox
•When bulk downloading metadata for more than 100 books at a time, automatically split up the download into batches of 100.
•When deleting books from the Kindle also delete 'sidecar' .apnx and .ph1 files as the kindle does not clean them up automatically
•Fix a subtle bug in the device drivers that caused calibre to lose track of some books on the device if you used author_sort in the send to device template and your books have author sort values that differ only in case.
•Fix scene break character pattern not saved in conversion preferences
•Keyboard shortcuts: Fix a bug triggered by some third party plugins that made the keyboard preferences unusable in OS X.
•Search box: Fix completion no longer working after using Tag Browser to do a search. Also ensure that completer popup is always hidden when a search is performed.
•Fix pressing Enter in the search box causes the same search to be executed twice in the plugins and keyboard shortcuts preferences panels
•Catalog generation: Fix error creating epub/mobi catalogs on non UTF-8 windows systems when the metadata contained non ASCII characters
New news sources
•El Mostrador and The Clinic by Alex Mitrani
•Patente de Corso by Oscar Megia Lopez
Improved news sources
•Financial Times UK
•La Tercera
•Folha de Sao Paolo
•Metro niews NL
•La Nacion
•Juventud Rebelde
•Rzeczpospolita Online
•Newsweek Polska
•CNET news

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New Features
•News download: Add algorithms to automatically clean up downloaded HTML
Use the algorithms from the Readability project to automatically cleanup downloaded HTML. You can turn this on in your own recipes by adding auto_cleanup=True to the recipe. It is turned on by default for basic recipes created via the GUI. This makes it a little easier to develop recipes for beginners.
•Add an option to Preferences->Look and Feel->Cover Browser to show the cover browser full screen. When showing the cover browser in a separate window, you can make it fullscreen by pressing the F11 key.
•Show the languages currently used at the top of the drop down list of languages
•When automatically computing author sort from author's name, if the name contains certain words like Inc., Company, Team, etc. use the author name as the sort string directly. The list of such words can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks.
•Add a search for individual tweaks to Preferences->Tweaks
•Drivers for a few new android phones
Bug Fixes
•Fix line unwrapping algorithms to account for some central European characters as well.
•Switch to using more modern language names/translations from the iso-codes package
•Allow cases insensitive entering of language names for convenience.
•When adding a text indent to paragraphs as part of the remove spacing between paragraphs transformation, do not add an indent to paragraphs that are directly centered or right aligned.
•Conversion pipeline: More robust handling of case insensitive tag and class css selectors
•MOBI Output: Add support for the start attribute on

tags
•When adding books that have no language specified, do not automatically set the language to calibre's interface language.
•Fix use of tag browser to search for languages when calibre is translated to a non English language
•When downloading news, set the language field correctly
•Fix languages field in the Edit metadata dialog too wide
•Fix setting of languages that have commas in their names broken
•FB2 Input: When convert FB2 files, read the cover from the FB2 file correctly.
New news sources
•CBN News and Fairbanks Daily by by Roger
•Hacker News by Tom Scholl
•Various Turkish news sources by thomass
•Cvece Zla by Darko Miletic
•Various Polish news sources by fenuks
•Fluter by Armin Geller
•Brasil de Fato by Alex Mitrani
Improved news sources
•Politifact
•Reuters
•Sueddeutsche
•CNN
•Financial Times UK
•MSDN Magazine
•Houston Chronicle
•Harvard Business Review

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New Features
•Basic support for Amazon AZW4 format (PDF wrapped inside a MOBI)
•When showing the cover browser in a separate window, allow the use of the V, D shortcut keys to view the current book and send it to device respectively.
•Add an option in Preferences->Miscellaneous to abort conversion jobs that take too long.
•Driver for HTC Evo and HP TouchPad (with kindle app)
•Preferences->Adding books, detect when the user specifies a test expression with no file extension and popup a warning
Bug Fixes
•E-book viewer: Ensure toolbars are always visible
•Content server: Fix grouping of Tags/authors not working for some non english languages with Internet Explorer
•When downloading metadata from amazon, fix italics inside brackets getting lost.
•Get Books: Add EscapeMagazine.pl and RW2010.pl stores
•Conversion pipeline: Fix conversion of cm/mm to pts. Fixes use of cm as a length unit when converting to MOBI.
•When showing the cover browser in a separate window, focus the cover browser so that keyboard shortcuts work immediately.
•HTMLZ Output: Fix special chars like ampersands, etc. not being converted to entities
•Keyboard shortcuts config: Fix clicking done in the shortcut editor with shortcuts set to default caused the displayed shortcut to be always set to None
•Fix bottom most entries in keyboard shortcuts not editable
New news sources
•Haber 7 and Hira by Unknown
•NTV and NTVSpor by A Erdogan by A Erdogan
Improved news sources
•Hacker News
•Nikkei News

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New Features
• Kindle news download: On Kindle 3 and newer have the View Articles and Sections menu remember the current article.
• Conversion: Add option to unsmarten puctuation under Look & Feel
• Driver of Motorola Ex124G and Pandigital Nova Tablet
• Allow downloading metadata from amazon.co.jp. To use it, configure the amazon metadata source to use the Japanese amazon site.
• When automatically generating author sort for author name, ignore common prefixes like Mr. Dr. etc. Controllable via tweak. Also add a tweak to allow control of how a string is split up into multiple authors.
• TXT Output: Preserve as much formatting as possible when generating Markdown output including various CSS styles
Bug Fixes
• Fix pubdate incorrect when used in save to disk template in timezones ahead of GMT.
• When attempting to stop multiple device jobs at once, only show a single error message
• Fix conversion of large EPUB files to PDF erroring out on systems with a limited number of available file handles
• EPUB catalog generation: Fix some entries going off the left edge of the page for unread/wishlist items
• When setting language in an EPUB file always use the 2 letter language code in preference to the three letter code, when possible.
• Content server: Fix --url-prefix not used for links in the book details view.
• MOBI Input: When links in a MOBI file point to just before block elements, and there is a page break on the block element, the links can end up pointing to the wrong place on conversion. Adjust the location in such cases to point to the block element directly.
New news sources
• Various Polish news sources by fenuks
Improved news sources
• Kopalnia Wiedzy
• FilmWeb.pl
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Honolulu Star Advertiser
• Counterpunch
• Philadelphia Inquirer

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New Features
•Driver for Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
•MOBI Output: Add option in Preferences->Output Options->MOBI Output to enable the share via Facebook feature for calibre produced MOBI files. Note that enabling this disables the sync last read position across multiple devices feature. Don't ask me why, ask Amazon.
•Content server: Update metadata when sending MOBI as well as EPUB files
•News download: Add an auto_cleanup_keep variable that allows recipe writers to tell the auto cleanup to never remove a specified element
•Conversion: Remove paragraph spacing: If you set the indent size negative, calibre will now leave the indents specified in the input document
Bug Fixes
•Fix regression in 0.8.18 that broke PDF Output
•MOBI Output: Revert change in 0.8.18 that marked news downloads with a single section as blogs, as the Kindle does not auto archive them
•PDF output on OSX now generates proper non image based documents
•RTF Input: Fix handling of internal links and underlined text
•Fix language sometimes not getting set when downloading metadata in the edit metadata dialog
•Fix regression that broke killing of multiple jobs
•Fix bug processing author names with initials when downloading metadata from ozon.ru.
•Fix a memory leak in the Copy to library operation which also fixes the metadata.db being held open in the destination library
•Keyboard shortcuts: Allow use of symbol keys like >,*,etc.
•EPUB Output: When splitting be a little cleverer about discarding 'empty' pages
New news sources
•RT by Darko Miletic
•CIO Magazine by Julio Map
•India Today and Hindustan Times by Krittika Goyal
•Pagina 12 Print Edition by Pablo Marfil
Improved news sources
•Twitch Films
•Japan Times
•People/US Magazine mashup
•Business World India
•Inquirer.net
•Guardian/Observer

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New Features
•A Tips and Tricks blog at blog.calibre-ebook.com to introduce less well known calibre features in a simple way
•News download: Add list of articles in the downloaded issue to the comments metadata of the generated ebook. Makes it possible to search for a particular article in the calibre library.
•Toolbar buttons: You can now also right click the buttons to bring the popup of extra actions, in addition to clicking the small arrow next to the button.
•Amazon metadata download plugin: Add option to download metadata from amazon.es
•Driver for Vizio and iRobot A9 Android tablets
•When switching to/starting with a library with a corrupted database, offer the user the option of rebuilding the database instead of erroring out.
•Template language: Add list_equals function
•Add a special output profile for the PocketBook 900 as it does not resize images correctly by itself
Bug Fixes
•Fix regression that cause PDF Output to generate very large files
•Fix Title Sort field not being displayed in Book details panel
•Prevent renaming of languages in the Tag browser
•Get books: Fix getting price from Foyles
•Content server: When a search matches no queries, do not show an error message
•ODT Input: Add workaround for ADE to fix centering of block level images when converting to EPUB
•Content server: When WSGI embedding fix handling of empty URL
•RTF Input: Fix spurious spaces inserted after some unicode characters
•Fix regression that broke clicking on the first letter of author names in the Tag Browser when grouped
•Fix reading metadata from filenames when the author regexp does not match anything
•Fix incorrect display of the month September in Finnish calibre
•Do not delete the file when the user tries to add a format to a book from a file already in the books directory
•Fix regression that broke customization of Kobo device plugin
•Allow user defined templates to be used in save to disk
New news sources
•Various Colombian news sources by BIGO-CAVA
•Gosc Niedzielny by Piotr Kontek
•Leipzer Volkszeitung by a.peter
•Folha de Sao Paulo (full edition) by fluzao
•Den of Geek by Jaded
•Republica by Manish Bhattarai
•Sign on San Diego by Jay Kindle
Improved news sources
•Read It Later
•American Spectator
•Sydney Morning Herald
•Chicago Tribune
•American Prospect
•DNA India
•Times of India
•Kurier
•xkcd
•Cnet

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New Features
•Input plugin for OCR-ed DJVU files (i.e. .djvu files that contain text. Only the text is converted)
•Driver for the SONY PRS T1
•Add a 'Back' button to the metadata download dialog while downloading covers, so that you can go back and select a different match if you dont lke the covers, instead of having to re-do the entire download.
•Add an option in Preferences->Saving to disk to not show files in file browser after saving to disk
•Get Books: Add the amazon.fr store. Remove leading 'by' from author names. Fix encoding issues with non English titles/names
•Driver for Onyx BOOX A61S/X61S
•Kobo: Add support for uploading new covers to the device without converting the ePub. You can just resend the book to have the cover updated
•Make it a little harder to ignore the fact that there are multiple toolbars when customizing toolbars
Bug Fixes
•MOBI Input: Remove invalid tags of the form
•calibredb add_format does not refresh running calibre instance
•Conversion pipeline: Translate to CSS font-family
•When sending email add a Date: header so that amavis does not consider the emails to be spam
•Fix for the problem where setting the restriction to an empty current search clears the restriction box but does not clear the restriction.
•Fix generation of column coloring rules for date/time columns
•Fix plugboard problem where customizations to formats accepted by a device were ignored.
•Enable adding of various actions to the toolbar when device is connected (they had been erroneously marked as being non-addable)
•Fixable content in library check is not hidden after repair
•Catalog generation: Handle a corrupted thumbnail cache.
•Do not error out when user clicks stop selected job with no job selected.
New news sources
•WoW Insider by Krittika Goyal
•Merco Press and Penguin news by Russell Phillips
•Defense News by Darko Miletic
•Revista Piaui by Eduardo Simoes
•Dark Horizons by Jaded
•Various polish news sources by fenuks
Improved news sources
•automatiseringgids
•CNET
•Geek and Poke
•Gosc Niedzielny
•Dilbert
•Economist
•Ming Pao
•Metro UK
•Heise Online
•FAZ.net
•Houston Chronicle
•Slate
•Descopera