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[classicdrogn]

If you haven't updated Calibre in a while, v6.0 finally properly supports dark themes, but no longer supports Windows 8 if that matters to you. It's due to using a newer version of Qt that isn't available for WEight due to M$ having ended support for it themselves, from what I understand, and al;so means that plugins from v5 and v6 are not cross-compatible, so frequently-updated ones like FanFicFare will break sooner than later if you don't upgrade the whole package? Someth8ng like that, from what the release notes said.

Also according to the release notes all currently-maintained plugins have been converted over so upgrading should be painless. I did note that the font displayed super-light (as in line weight) the first time I started v6, but changing it and changing it back in Preferences -> Look & Feel then restarting Calibre cleared it up. The big news this release is that full-text searching is now available, though it does need to be enabled and a background indexing operation run first. I'm planning to leave that turned off myself; I get enough false hits just searching titles and tags (thanks so much AO3/sarcasm) without turning up every time someone used a word in the text too.

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