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New Features
- Edit book: A new tool to create an audio overlay in EPUB files for all text using the Read aloud facility
- Dark mode: make scrollbar more visible with higher contrast and rounded corners
- E-book viewer: In flow mode when scrolling across internal file boundaries using the mouse wheel/touchpad have a short half second pause to ease the transition. Can be controlled via the Scrolling section of the Viewer preferences.
- ebook-meta.exe: Add an option to disallow rendered cover of first page for EPUB
- Book details: Add an action to download the cover to the context menu when right clicking the cover
- Read aloud: Add a restore defaults button to the configuration dialog
- Auto adding: Allow excluding arbitrary file types not just known book file types
- Edit metadata dialog: Add an action to open the book's folder to the context menu of the formats list
Bug Fixes
- Read aloud: Fix only first 32000 characters per chapter being read
- Content server: Read aloud: Fix clicking on a word to skip reading aloud to that word causing word highlighting to stop working
- Linux: Handle speech dispatcher with dummy output module and no voices more gracefully
- When renaming authors fix empty author folder not being removed if it contained file explorer metadata but was otherwise empty
- Edit metadata dialog: Fix keyboard shortcuts to edit prev/next raising an error when trying to go beyond the first/last book
- Linux: ToC Editor: Fix a regression in 7.17 that broke using the Create new entry button
- Content server: Fix changing the language of a book not working for non-English user interface language and for books that have no existing language
- Linux: Read aloud with Piper: Fix audio not playing on some Linux systems
- Notes browser: When searching books search over all currently selected categories not just the last selected one
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