Software update: Caliber 5.34

Version 5.34 of Caliber has been released. This open source ebook manager is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert ebooks to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 4.
• Edit book: Spell check tool: Add an exclude files button to exclude some files from being checked.
• EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Increase the maximum thumbnail size to 3 inches from 2 inches.
• Allow creating a shortcut in Preferences->Shortcuts->Edit metadata to paste metadata ignoring the value of the exclude_fields tweak. Close tickets: 1953739†
• E-book viewer: Displays links marked up as glossary and bibliography links as popups. Close tickets: 1954715†
• Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to provide the sort value for undefined numbers. Close tickets: 1954572†

bug fixes

• Edit book: Fix pressing F8 to jump to next misspelled word not working after last word in current file.
• Fix PDB E-reader output broken in caliber 5. Closes tickets: 1954889†
• Edit book: Reports: Include descendant selectors that use classes when counting class usage. Close tickets: 1954839†
• E-book viewer: Fix an error when opening some books with highlights that span in-line text formatting. Close tickets: 1954726†
• MTP driver: Do not send the caliber device db files to the root folder on the Supernote A5 x as it fails. Close tickets: 1954460†
• ToC Editor: Workaround an occasional error when closing on Windows if the file being edited is in a DropBox/antivirus prone folder.
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke creating new keyboard shortcuts.
• Comments editor: When flowing the tool bar onto multiple lines do not split up groups of buttons.
• Various compatibility fixes for Python 3.10 used by some Linux distributions.

Improved news sources

• pocket
• El Pais
• American Prospect
• media part