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Calibre updated to 0.7.54

New Features
- New output format, HTMLZ which is a single HTML file with its associated images/stylesheets in a zipped up file
- When dealing with ZIP/RAR archives, use the file header rather than the file extension to detrmine the file type, when possible. This fixes the common case of CBZ files being actually cbr files and vice versa
- Support for the Motorola Atrix
- Allow the icons in the toolbar to be turned off completely via Preferences->Look & Feel
- When downloading metadata use the gzip transfer encoding when possible for a speedup.
Bug Fixes
- Conversion pipeline: Workaround for bug in lxml that causes a massive mem leak on windows and OS X when the input document contains non ASCII CSS selectors.
- Conversion pipeline: Handle inline
OpenDocument Text to ePub conversion tool updated
Received the following from Martynas Jusevicius:
we would like to announce that we’ve recently launched an updated version of an online ODT (OpenDocument Text) to ePub conversion tool:
http://odt2epub.comThe free version delivers ePub output to your email address.
The paid administrative interface includes:
* History overview – all your conversions with metadata, ODT and ePub files
* Validation – all ePub output gets validated with ePubCheck
* Users – an option to add more users to your account
* Customization options – advanced options to improve your ePub outputSupported OpenDocument features:
* Paragraph styles (standard, custom)
* Character styles (standard, custom)
* Lists (bullet, numbered)
* Tables
* Pictures
* Page-breaks
* Cross-references
* Footnotes
* MarginsPlanned support
* Table of Contents
* Embedded fonts
API and DOC2ePub conversion is in the works.
We hope it will be useful. Feedback is very appreciated.
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Calibre updated to 0.7.51

New Features
- Conversion: Detect and remove fake page margins that are specified as a margin on (nearly) every paragraph.
- Windows build: All the python code and recipes are now put into zip files. This should decrease the amount of time the windows installer spends ‘calculating free space’
- OSX and Linux: Add a setting in Preferences->Behavior to control the priority with which calibre worker processes run. This setting was already available on windows.
- Driver for HTC Thunderbolt, T-Mobile Optimus, Archos 43 and Blackberry OS6
- A new ‘authors type’ custom column
- When building calibre from source note that calibre now absolutely requires python >= 2.7
- Add the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R to restart calibre in debug mode
Bug Fixes
- Fix dragging and dropping lots of books from the book list to the Tag Browser was broken
- Change the shebang in the calibre launcher script on linux to explicitly use python2 rather than python
- When adding formats do not corrupt the added file if the user tries to add an existing format to itself
- Fix drag and drop to add files that contain the # character in the filename
- Tag editor shouldn’t add empty tags
- MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that have a too large ‘number of records’ field in their headers.
- News download: Update RSS feedparser module to latest version
- Various fixes to the zipfile module in calibre to handle 64 bit zipfiles and bring it up to date with the zip file module in the python stdlib
- News download: Handle titles with ASCII control codes in them.
- Make search hierarchies show simple names instead of compound ones.
- Fix commas in author names being converted to pipe symbols in the book details window
- Fix PocketBook can’t always find epub cover image to create thumbnail
Calibre updated to 0.7.5
New Features
- Add ‘Read a random book’ to the view menu
- Add option to show composite columns in the tag browser.
- Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control where news that is automatically uploaded to a reader is sent.
- Do not also show text in composite columns when showing an icon
- Add a menu item to clear the last viewed books history in the ebook viewer
- Kobo driver: Add support for the ‘Closed’ collection
- Add rename/delete saved search options to Tag browser context menu
- Make searches in the tag browser a possible hierarchical field
- Allow using empty username and password when setting up an SMTP relay
Bug Fixes
- Fix regression in 0.7.49 that broke deleting of news downloads older than x days.
- Restore the ability to remove missing formats from metadata.db to the Check Library operation
- EPUB metadata: Read ISBN from Penguin epubs that dont correctly specify it
- Conversion pipeline: Handle the case where the ncx file is incorrectly given an HTML mimetype
- Make numpad navigation keys work in viewer
- Fix ratings not being downloaded from Amazon
- Content server: Add workaround for Internet Explorer not supporting the ' entity.
- Conversion pipeline: When detecting chapters/toc links from HTML normalize spaces and increase maximum TOC title length to 1000 characters from 100 characters.
- Fix regression that broke Search and Replace on custom fields
- Fix regression that caused currently selected row to be unfocussed int he device view when updataing metadata
- Coversion S&R: Do not strip leading and trailing whitespace from the search and replace expressions in the GUI
Sony PRS 600 screen issue *updated*
sony ebook:Sony PRS 600 screen issue *updated*
So yesterday (Feb 28th) a row of dead pixels appeared along the centre of the screen of my Sony PRS-600 ebook reader. I only bought it at the end of December so it's well within warranty. I took it to my local SonyStyle shop and they said they'll send it to be looked at and see if the problem is covered under the warranty or not. Huh? I thought to myself, fearing the worst. What if they decide it isn't?? We'll just have to see. Everyone who knows me knows how careful I am with electronics and how much I love my gadgets, and especially how happy I was getting my reader. Don't let me down Sony. To be continued...
Kobo Android App updated
Kobo has had a Google Android e-reading application since 2009 and has updated it many times from the original iteration. Today a fresh new update has hit the market.
The latest update gives us some interesting new social features such as being able to share particular passages on Facebook. It works simply by highlighting a specific phrase or sentence and being able to use it as your status update or post it on your own wall.
There is also a new setting to be able to lock the orientation of your device right in the Kobo main settings. So if you prefer to only have your orientation locked within a specific program and to don’t want your entire device to lock the orientation, this is a great update.
Also, popular in the Apple iPad application is the nighttime reading setting where your screen will dim in very low lights, so you will not strain your eyes with a very bright background. Most of the Kobo books have a pure white background that the text overlays. So if you are reading before bed, this is a way to turn down the glare of the white background.
The only way to get this update is on the official Google Android Market for now. It will only be a few days until the alternative Android markets will have the update in case your device does not have access to the official one.
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As bookstores everywhere struggle, Schuler Books in West Michigan offers customers an updated edition
To stay competitive, Schuler Books & Music is selling gifts, eBooks and even dining ware.
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Updated review of comments, press and resources on the Google Book Settlement rejection
UPDATED (March 24, 2011, 9:00 pm EDST)
Some of the Most Recently Added Items
1. “Judge Chin rejects AAP/Google settlement” (by Karen Coyle, Coyle’s InFormation)
Hat Tip and Thanks: @Blank_TextField
2. “Google Books Deal Not Dead, Only Resting, Authors’ Lawyer Says” (via Wired)
3. “Judge Chin’s Ruling By The Numbers” (via Open Book Alliance)
4. Google Book Search rejected: why not try fair use instead? (by Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing)
5. “European comment of the defeat of the Google Book Settlement” (via TeleRead/Paul K. Biba)
From Booksellers Association, Copyright Licensing Agency, and German Publishers and Booksellers Association.
6. “Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Google Books Settlement Rejection (PDF)”
ARL, ALA, and ACRL are members of the alliance.
7. “A Copyright Expert Who Spoke Up for Academic Authors Offers Insights on the Google Books Ruling” (by Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
8. Research Libraries See Google Decision as Just a Bump on the Road to Widespread Digital Access (by Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
9. “The Google Books settlement should teach the company humility. It won’t.” (by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Slate)
Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia and the author of The Googlization of Everything and Why We Should Worry.
10. “New York judge rules against Google books settlement” (by Benedicte Page, The Guardian)
11. “The Google Books Settlement: Where Things Stand, and Some Suggestions for What’s Next” (by David Crotty, The Scholarly Kitchen)
12. Google Book Deal Faces Big Hurdle (by Jeffrey Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal)
13. NY Times Op Ed By Robert Darnton: A Digital Library Better Than Google’s
From His NY Times Op-Ed:
Notes: Digital Public Library of America Workshop Materials
See Also: Materials from LibraryCity.org
Robert Darnton often writes about digital libraries, Google, and related topics. Many of his columns are available online from the NY Review of Books. He recently sat down with Randall Stephens for this interview (video).
14. “Federal judge rejects Google book monopoly” (by Timothy Lee, Ars Technica
Hat Tip and Thanks: Cory D.
From the Court Opinion:
Analysis
Professor James Grimmelmann (New York Law School) has been studying, discussing, and writing about the Google Book Settlement since the beginning and he has posted some analysis via his Twitter feed.
“Inside Judge Chin’s Opinion” (by James Grimmelmann, The Laboratorium)
“Google Books: Copyright Settlement Rejected (by Kenneth Crews, Columbia Copyright Advisory Office
Graphics
Library Copyright Alliance Updates Diagram Charting Many Ways Forward For Google Books Settlement (PDF)
The update was made to the well-known “March Madness” diagram.
Primary Documents
Full Text of GBS Opinion (48 pages; PDF)
Definitive Collection of All Google Book Settlement Legal Documents (via The Public Index)
Comments and Responses
From Peter Brantley, Open Book Alliance (via LA Times)
From Scott Turow, President of The Authors Guild
Hilary Ware, Google’s Managing Counsel (via Bloomberg)
John Sargent, Macmillan’s Chief Executive Officer (via Bloomberg)
Gary Reback, co-founder of the Open Book Alliance (via Bloomberg)
Full-Text: “OBA Applauds Rejection of Google Books Settlement” (via Open Book Alliance)
“CIC-Google Scanning Continues After Google Lawsuit Settlement Rejected” (Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Center for Library Initiatives)
“HathiTrust Response to the Amended Settlement Agreement Decision”
“Judge Chin rejects Google Book Search amended settlement agreement” (via American Library Association)
Commentary: “Good and Bad in Google Book Search Settlement Decision” (by Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Hat Tip and Thanks: Peter Suber
“Google Books Decision: ‘The Privacy Concerns are Real’”
“Courts Rejects Google Books Settlement as Unfair, Also Finds that ‘Privacy concerns are real’” (via Electronic Frontier Foundation)
“FairSearch.org Statement on the Google Book Search Settlement Ruling”
Full-Text: “Publishers Remain Committed to Expanding Online Access to Books And Upholding Copyright Despite Court Decision” (via Association of American Publishers)
“National Federation of the Blind Comments on Rejection of Google Books Settlement”
“Consumer Watchdog Praises Judge for Blocking Google Books Deal; Decision Sends Message Google Must Ask Permission Before Using Others’ Property”
From Paul Biba, TeleRead: Carolyn Reidy (President and CEO of Simon & Schuster) Interviewed*** by Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Rights Registry
From Eric Hellman, Go To Hellman: “Simon and Schuster is Looking at Limited Lending Library eBook Models”
Also from the Healy/Reidy interview in NYC.
*** The interview took place at a Publishing Point event in NYC.
“Stanford librarians disappointed with ruling in Google case, but university plans to continue digitizing books” (via Stanford News Service)
“Google Books Rejection Highlights Need for Orphan Works Reform” (via Public Knowledge)
Press and Blogosphere
“What The Collapse Of The Google Books Deal Really Means” by Joe Mullin
“Book Ruling Cuts Options for Google” (by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times)
“Google Book Settlement — Opponents 1, Google 0″ (by Kent Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen)
“March Madness: Judge Denny Chin Rejects the Google Settlement” (by Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Ed)
“What’s next for “Google’s” Book Rights Registry?” (by Eric Hellman, Go to Hellman)
“Google Books settlement rejected, but likely not a lost cause (by Jenn Webb, O’Reilly Radar)
“Google Book Settlement Rejected” (by Josh Hadro, Library Journal)
“Please Refine Your Search Terms” (by Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed)
Video: “[Nicholas] Thompson [from The New Yorker] Calls Library Ruling ‘Bad Precedent’ for Google”
“Judge Rejects Settlement in Google Books Case, Saying It Goes Too Far” (by Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education)
“Google Settlement Is Rejected” (by Andrew Albanese & Jim Milliot)
After Rejection, a Rocky Road For Google Settlement (by Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly)
“Federal Judge Rejects Google’s Negotiated Deal to Digitize Books” (by Miguel Helft, NY Times)
“Google Book Search Settlement Rejected By Court” (by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land)
“Google Books Settlement Rejected (via GalleyCat)
“Mixed feelings on judge’s ruling on Google book project” by Larry Magid, San Jose Mercury News)
“Chin Decides Google Books Settlement Would ‘Go Too Far’” (by Mark Hamblett, Law.com)
“Federal judge rejects Google digital book settlement” (by David Sarno, Los Angeles Times)
“Judge throws out Google book deal” (by Richard Waters and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Financial Times)
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