#calibre — Public Fediverse posts

Every Free App You Actually Need Explained (Part 1-4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWSs6laAO0

#OpenSource #freeapps #LibreOffice
#VLC Media Player
#DaVinci Resolve
#OBS Studio
#GIMP
#Audacity
#Blender
#Obsidian
#Scratch
#Godot
#Krita
#Photopea
#Inkscape
#LMMS
#Shotcut / Kdenlive
#KeePassXC
#Thunderbird
#Calibre
#Joplin
#MPV
#Affinity
#ProtonVPN
#Bitwarden
#PDF24 Creator
#LocalSend
#VirtualBox
#Notepad++
#FreeCAD
#Ardour
#WinRAR
#Everything
#Syncthing
#Penpot
#Proton Pass
#KDE Connect
#Parsec
#VSCodium
#Scribus
#HandBrake
#7-Zip
#ShareX
#qBittorrent
#Free Download Manager
#totalcommander

(Linux news in previous posts)

FOSS NEWS

PeerTube 8.2 adds channel ownership transfer, live-stream pausing & video segment removal:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/peertube-8-2-adds-channel-ownership-transfer-live-stream-pausing-and-video-segment-removal/

Proton is making it easier than ever to switch from Gmail to Proton Mail:
https://betanews.com/article/proton-is-making-it-easier-than-ever-to-switch-from-gmail-to-proton-mail/

Mozilla Firefox 151.0.2 Is Out Now to Improve Split View, Disk Caching, and More:
https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-151-0-2-is-out-now-to-improve-split-view-disk-caching-and-more

Zen Browser launches a Boosts feature to customize colors, fonts and styles on any website:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/zen-browser-launches-a-boosts-feature-to-customize-colors-fonts-and-styles-on-any-website/

New Web and Mobile Strategy for LibreOffice:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/27/new-web-and-mobile-strategy-for-libreoffice/

Krita 5.3.2 released with Text tool and font dropdown improvements:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/krita-532-released/

MKVToolNix 99.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the MKVToolNix GUI, mkvmerge:
https://9to5linux.com/mkvtoolnix-99-0-mkv-manipulation-tool-improves-the-mkvtoolnix-gui-mkvmerge

Calibre 9.9 E-Book Manager Updates and Improves the WolneLektury Store:
https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-9-e-book-manager-updates-and-improves-the-wolnelektury-store

Marknote 1.6 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Adds Initial Support for Sub-Folders:
https://9to5linux.com/marknote-1-6-wysiwyg-note-taking-app-adds-initial-support-for-sub-folders

Flowblade 2.24.2 Fixes a Crash and Keeps Linux Video Editing Alive:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/flowblade-2242-released/

Canonical to shut Ubuntu Pastebin after 18 years of service:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/canonical-ubuntu-pastebin-shutdown
(Yet another Canonical service/product shut down. Although tbh, I didn't even know about this service until know (not that I would use anything Canonical lol))

(Last) Major FosseryWeb update - Java cheatsheets, RSS feed for articles, and more:
https://odysee.com/@fossery-tech:4/fosseryweb-java-cheatsheets-rss-feed:d

(more FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #PeerTube #Fediverse #Fedi #ProtonMail #Email #Firefox #MozillaFirefox #ZenBrowser #LibreOffice #Krita #MKVToolNix #MKV #Calibre #Marknote #Flowblade #UbuntuPastebin #FosseryWeb #FosseryWebMin #WebBrowser #EmailProvider #Degoogle #ContentCreation #Notetaking #FosseryTech

I just bought my first ebook outside of the Amazon 'ecosystem'! Tracey Nicholls' An Ethics of Improvisation.

- Found it on https://www.ebook.de/de
- Managed it via Calibre
-Added it to Zotero

It was *much more expensive* than on Amazon, but we all know how Amazon keeps their prices so incredibly low, therefore supporting an EU-based infrastructure felt like doing the right thing.

So far it seems a wonderful book.

#deamazon #amazon #opensource #calibre #artisticresearch #improvisation #ethics

May is book's month in Uruguay, May 26th being National Book's Day. I promised to release my books freely in a #FediverseEdition proposal.
I expected to do that in their original language (Spanish).
Translation is a full time professional job which I am not prepared to do. However, some LLM helped me improve a bit my amateur translation attempt of my opera prima The Hungarian Soprano.

The main story is a nonlinear chronology which mirrors the dissonant harmonies of La Traviata.
Its structure forces the reader to become the investigator, piecing together a conspiracy the text refuses to spell out.

It is a historical fiction work covering espionage, arms traffic, government cover-ups spanning South America and Europe during the Yugoslavian wars.

The prose’s clinical tone (dates, decrees, serial numbers) sharpens the horror, making The hungarian soprano's death feel not like fiction, but like history’s darkest aria.

Six more parts await inside covering #fanaticism, #prejudice, #mystery, #psychedelia, #medicaldrama, #travel, #alcoholism, #friendship, #africa, #trans, #MedecinsSansFrontieres, #southamerica, #Brazil, and more.

Hope you enjoy it. If you feel like #commenting, #sharing or #rating it, thanks in advance.

Completely #free. :cc_cc: This book is distributed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

https://cloud.undernet.uy/s/jxozFDWGZcaNR3Q

Entirely written in #FOSS.

#uruguay #bookstodon #books #epub #TheHungarianSoprano #operaprima #fiction #historicalfiction #Latex #calibre