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Calibre 5.0 released

([Development] Sep 25, 2020 15:03 UTC (Fri) (corbet))


[1]Version 5.0 of the Calibre electronic-book manager has been released. " There has been a lot of work on the calibre E-book viewer. It now supports Highlighting. The highlights can be colors, underlines, strikethrough, etc. and have added notes. All highlights can be both stored in EPUB files for easy sharing and centrally in the calibre library for easy browsing. Additionally, the E-book viewer now supports both vertical and right-to-left text. " Another significant change is a port to Python 3; that was a necessary change but it means that there are a number of plugins that have not yet been ported and thus won't work. The status of many plugins can be found on [2]this page .



[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fourteen

[2] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=326405

"The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity;
the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a
military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and
private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity and devotion;
and the soldiers' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes
who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity."
-- Edward Gibbons, _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_