Nook firmware version 1.5 released

Barnes and noble has released the new firmware update for the nook eReader.  Version 1.5 includes a lot of new features:

Sync last page read apps about devices with nook Ereading enabled.  You can organize your library to my shelves. Password protection option of purchases on a nook device. You can now set your B & N account password be entered before song van authorized download content (purchases, samples and free books).  This is useful for all of you, the corners will, share with family, friends and colleagues. Pass code security for the nook eReader. You can configure, angle to the screen lock after a specified number of minutes, and then require to unlock a pass code.  The pass code security feature will enable each time still life does powers that arouses form sleep mode. Faster page turns. Up to 50 percent rotates faster page than the previous version.Improved search my files in the results contains. additional battery and other performance improvements.

The new firmware via Wi-Fi is available or you can manually download it to the nook support page

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Calibre 0.7.9 released

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Borders eBook Store goes live - BlackBerry and Android reading apps released

See eBook readers find blog eBook Reader blog reading in the digital age-HomeAbouteBook-SourceseReader user manuals and ManualsFree and cheap Kindle BooksKindle international country information about RSS feed borders eBook Store live - BlackBerry and Android reading published no CommentsPosted goes apps at 9 pm in random, eBook Store

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Calibre 0.7.6 released

Neue Funktionen

Hinzufügen von Unterstützung für die neue Firmware von der Azbooka
Ein paar Beschleunigungen für Kaliber Start, sollten bis zu ein paar Sekunden Startzeit auf langsamere Maschinen hinzufügen
Unterstützung für die Sweem-MM300
Fügen Sie Tastatur-Kurzbefehl für Download-Metadaten und Abdeckungen

Wanzen-Verlegenheiten

Verlegenheit Regression in 0.7.5, die Umwandlung von fehlerhafte HTML-Dateien (wie die Microsoft Word-Ausgänge) brach
Unterladen Sie keine Tags von Librarything, her, wie die Kennzeichnung es nicht sehr gut ist
Fügen Sie Mimetype für FB2 hinzu, damit es vom Inhaltsserver serviert werden können
Stellen Sie sicher, Abdeckung nicht auf weniger als der verfügbare Platz im Dialog bearbeiten Meta Information geändert wird
SONY-Treiber: nur Sammlungen zu aktualisieren, wenn Buch zum ersten Mal an Gerät senden
Kaliber sollte jetzt unter Windows funktionieren, wenn Sie den Speicherort für die Bibliothek enthält nicht-Ascii-Zeichen
Cover Browser verzerrt noch einmal anstelle von Abdeckungen, die eine falsche Seitenverhältnis beschneiden
ISBNDb-Metadaten-Plugin: Fix: Fehler verursacht nur erste Seite der Ergebnisse abgerufen werden
ITunes-Treiber nach unten zu verschieben, so dass es nicht stören Geräteerkennung für Menschen, die Iphones und eine Ereader eingesteckt

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Calibre 0.7.3 released

From the changelog:

New Features

The Tag Browser now display an average rating for each item
Editable author sort for each author
When downloading metadata, also get series information from librarything.com
Redesign of the Book Details pane
New User Interface layouts
You can now add books directly from the device to the calibre library by right clicking on the books in the device views
iPad driver: Create category from series preferentially, also handle series sorting
SONY driver: Add an option to use author_sort instead of author when sending to device
Hitting Enter in the search box now causes the search to be re-run
Boox driver: Make destination directory for books customizable
Add plugin to download metadata from douban.com. Disabled by default.
OS X/linux driver for PocketBook 301
Support for the Samsung Galaxy and Sigmatek EBK52
On startup do not focus the search bar. Instead you can acces the search bar easily by pressing the / key or the standard search keyboard shortcut for your operating system

Bug Fixes

iPad driver: Various bug fixes
Kobo Output profile: Adjust the screen dimensions when converting comics
Fix using Preferences when a device is connected causes items in device menu to be disabled
CHM Input: Skip files whoose names are too long for windows
Brighten up calibre icon on dark backgrounds
Ignore ‘Unknown’ in title/autors when downloading metadata
Fix regression that broke various entries in the menus – Preferences, Open containing folder and Edit metadata individually
EPUB metadata: Handle comma separated entries in tags correctly
MOBI Output: Fix underlines not being rendered
EPUB Output: Remove workaround for old versions of Adobe Digital Editions’ faulty rendering of links in html. calibre no longer forces links to be blue and underlined
Fix a bug that could cause the show pane buttons to not show hidden panes
Fix Tag Editor does not reflect recently changed data in Tag Catagory Text Box
Content server: Fix sorting of books by authors instead of author_sort in the main and mobile views
Cover cache: Resize covers larger than 600×800 in the cover cache to reduce memory consumption in the GUI
EPUB Output: Default cover is generated is now generated as a JPEG instead of PNG32, reducing size by an order of magnitude.
Cover Browser: Scale text size with height of cover browser. Only show a reflection of half the cover. Also restore rendering quality after regression in 0.7.1
Book list: Do not let the default layout have any column wider than 350 pixels

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Calibre 0.7.2 released

New Features

The Cover Browser can now be freely resized.
Added tweak to control how titles and series names are sorted
Clicking on row numbers no longer open the viewer. Instead you have to double click

Bug Fixes

SONY driver: The regression causing slow performance has been corrected. Various bug fixes to deal with corner cases

iPad driver: Various bugfixes, should now work much more seamlessly.

Fix regression causing calibre to not start if the library path is invalid, because say a drive has been removed

Fix regression in 0.7.1 that broke searching in the e-book viewers and for news sources

Fix regressions that caused the Publisher to change when updating Series and floating point custom columns to be rounded to integers.

Fix regression that broke check database integrity in the presence of custom coulmns or user categories

Fix regression that broke the Email to submenu in the send to device menu

Fix Tag browser re-opening closed tree after editing metadata

Conversion pipeline: Handle missing/obsolete input/output profiles gracefully

Fix Adding/Deleting Search does not refresh Left Pane Correctly

Content server: Fix serving of CBZ/CBR files to stanza

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Calibre 0.7.2 released

New Features

The Cover Browser can now be freely resized.
Added tweak to control how titles and series names are sorted
Clicking on row numbers no longer open the viewer. Instead you have to double click

Bug Fixes

SONY driver: The regression causing slow performance has been corrected. Various bug fixes to deal with corner cases

iPad driver: Various bugfixes, should now work much more seamlessly.

Fix regression causing calibre to not start if the library path is invalid, because say a drive has been removed

Fix regression in 0.7.1 that broke searching in the e-book viewers and for news sources

Fix regressions that caused the Publisher to change when updating Series and floating point custom columns to be rounded to integers.

Fix regression that broke check database integrity in the presence of custom coulmns or user categories

Fix regression that broke the Email to submenu in the send to device menu

Fix Tag browser re-opening closed tree after editing metadata

Conversion pipeline: Handle missing/obsolete input/output profiles gracefully

Fix Adding/Deleting Search does not refresh Left Pane Correctly

Content server: Fix serving of CBZ/CBR files to stanza

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