Upgrade my Calibre installation to the Latest Calibre 5.9

David Yin

3 years ago

Last September, Calibre 5.0 released. Today, I upgraded the installation to 5.9.

Let me have a look what’s new features of this E-Book management software.

Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location
Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights
Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder
Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns

Happy holidays to all calibre users!
E-book viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+F)
Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).
Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
Content server viewer: Don’t enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
E-book viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
Template/formatter enhancements: Add a ‘for’ statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode

E-book viewer: Add a “Read aloud” function that works via the operating system’s Text-to-speech engine.
Click the “Read aloud” button in the viewer controls to start reading the book text aloud from the current page.
A new busy spinner for waiting animations
Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.

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
Add ability to undo Generate cover in the Edit metadata screen, by long clicking the Generate cover button
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
Content server viewer: Allow viewing images in a new window by right clicking them, matches the calibre builtin viewer behavior
Book details window: Allow opening the edit metadata window using either the keyboard shortcut or the context menu
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

Support the calibre:// URL scheme
Clicking on calibre:// URLs can be used to have calibre perform various actions. For details, see: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html
Viewer: Show calibre:// URL for current book in the Goto->Location panel
Edit book: Add an action to the right click menu for tabs to close tabs to the right of the current tab.
Add ability to copy tag, publisher and author in Book details panel by right-clicking
Annotations browser: Add a context menu for common actions.
Annotations browser: Show a dot for highlights with notes.
Edit book: Saved searches panel: Allow copying the current saved search to the regular search panel by clicking the Export button.
Windows: Fix command line arguments not working for the portable.exe launchers
Viewer: back and forward buttons on the mouse now trigger the back and forward actions
Option to mark all books with annotations/bookmarks
Various minor improvements to how keyboard focus is handled in the Tag browser