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Calibre 5.8.1 (New) Released
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https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new        Release: 5.8.1 [24 Dec, 2020]
New features
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).
Closes tickets: 1908929

Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
Closes tickets: 1907410

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
Closes tickets: 1907919, 1907918

Bug fixes
Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS
E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode
Closes tickets: 1908000

AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working.
Closes tickets: 1898394

E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format
Closes tickets: 1907907

Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books
PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the automatic or Google servers because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.
Version 5.8.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer.
Closes tickets: 1909217, 1909197

New news sources
SchwarzerPfeil by tastytea
Substack by topynate
Improved news sources
The Australian
The Atlantic
Zerohedge
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Calibre 5.8.1 (New) Released - by mrtrout - 12-25-2020 , 12:24 AM

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