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Calibre developers officially announces the release of Calibre 2.4.0 with new features, improved and new news sources along with several bug fixes. Some of the earlier new sources like Today's Zaman, Wall Street Journal and High Country News are improved in this release. As we all know that Calibre is popular eBook editor, converter and viewer available for all platforms.

According to official announcement, Calibre 2.4.0 comes with new random cover generation algorithm which generates covers using many different color schemes and cover styles. The saved searches popup is redesigned as dockable window. The editing of saved searches can be done inline and global search/replace keyboard shortcuts work in the saved searches window.

You can also change the text of "Mark selected text" menu entry depending on whether it will mark or unmark the text. This release allows you to undoing metadata download by long-clicking the Download metadata button and choosing "Undo last metadata download". It allows using Enter key to select cover and left/right keys to move between metadata results.

Apart from these new features, this release also includes several bug fixes like fixed regression of Calibre 2.3 which broke creation of collections on the device when metadata management was set to manual. It fixes displaying multiple pages per screen not working in calibre 2.x with some books due to change in Qt 5. You can also review complete list of all changes of Calibre 2.4.0 on their changelog page.

Among other fixes, it includes fixed unintuitive behavior of back and forward buttons when going all the way back to the first item in the history and fixed tags with angle brackets not being displayed in the Book Details panel. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in Software World ?

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