Software update: Caliber 1.19

Version 1.19 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Edit book: A new tool to insert special characters into the text, available via Edit->Insert special character. Supports all unicode characters (over 60,000 of them). see http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#inserting-special-characters
• Edit book: When searching for text in the editor, center the found text on screen
• Driver for teXet TB-146SE. Close tickets: 1266030
• Edit book: Show tooltips in the File Browser for ‘special’ files, such as the cover, opf, ncx, etc.
• Edit book: When checking book, check for entries in the OPF whose mimetype does not match the file extension.

Bug Fixes

• Edit book: Fix marking a file as titlepage not working if the opf does not contain a section. Close tickets: 1267643
• Edit book: Fix errors when working on HTML files that parse as valid XML, but do not have the correct XHTML namespace.
• Fix typing non-English characters using an input method (key composing) in the author/tags/etc fields in the metadata dialog not working. Close tickets: 1266795
• Edit book: Fix error when merging html files that include a currently opened file and a non-html file is also open
• Fix unnecessary error popup during shutdown if the wireless device driver is running and mdns de-registration fails. Close tickets: 1262819
• Add L´ and D´ as recognized articles when automatically computing sort strings for French. Close tickets: 1264172
• Edit book: Fix changing mimetypes in the opf file not being detected when closing the opf file or running any automated tool like Check Book

Improved news sources

• New York Times
• Zeit Online
• faz.net
• OGlobo
• Inc Magazine
• New York Review of Books
• Fire Eins