Software update: Caliber 0.7.46

Caliber is an e-book management program and can handle almost all types of e-books and e-readers. It makes it possible, among other things, to convert e-books between the various formats in order to make e-books available on all platforms. In addition, it can also convert news articles based on RSS to e-book format and in this way make news available on e-readers. Caliber is intensively developed and a new version is released every week. Version 0.7.46 was released on Friday and has the following changelog:

New Features

• Replace LibraryThing cover download plugin with a new plugin to download covers from Amazon
• Kindle driver: Add an option to turn off sending page number information. Also add an option to use a more accurate but slower algorithm to calculate page numbers.
• E-book viewer: Maintain a list of recently opened books (to see the list click the arrow next to the open button
• Improve performance of device connection with huge libraries.
• Add a button ot the search preferences to clear search history.
• Device driver customization: Allow user to tell caliber to send any ebook format to the device rather than just the list of formats that caliber thinks the device will support
• Metadata search and replace: Allow case changes and also fix search and replace when the destination field is a tags like field
• FB2 Input: Add support for super and sub-scripts
• When converting non english texts to english for filenames, use the users currect caliber interface language. This allows Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese characters to be correctly converted. Previously they were assumed to be Chinese.
• Content server: Make the authors/series/tags/publisher/etc. in the book details box clickable so that similar books can be found easily.
• Dragging from book list: Only start drag if user clicks on an already selected item. Makes multi-selecting with the mouse easier
• Move the grouped search terms option from tweaks to the Search Customization preferences. Also allow grouped search terms to be displayed in the Tag browser
• When adding .txt files, if they reference images, autoconvert them to a txtz file containing all referenced images. This is simliar to the way HTML files are converted to ZIP
• MOBI Output: Partially support CSS vertical-align length values, converting them to ^{or _{tags. Also support vertical-align for images}}
• TXT Input: New paragraph-type option (off) to disable modifying the paragraph structure.
• Device driver for the Kendo/Yifang M7 and the Wolder Mibuk Life

Bug Fixes

• Fix main memory and storage card for Cybook Orizon being swapped with some firmwares
• Fix regression that broke deleting items from the Manage X dialogs.
• Disable driver for Huawei android tablet/phones as Huawei for some reason seems to think that using the same USB ids for devices and USB sticks is a good idea. This would cause caliber to try to connect to the USB stick as a device continuously
• MOBI Output: Normalize unicode strings when writing metadata to MOBI files as the Kindle cannot handle non-normalized unicode.
• Fix regression that broke completion of tags with special characters
• Conversion pipeline: Discard invalid CSS generated by Microsoft products before parsing. Should improve performance when converting HTML from Word in particular.
• Fix completion popups in the edit metadata dialog partially obscuring text in windows 7
• Allow the left panel of the tweaksdialog to be resized
• Fix reported number of books in library sometimes incorrect when using restrictions
• PML Output: Don’t write Cn tags when we are within a heading. Put images in DropBook required image subfolder. Remove Cn tags written inside of x and Xn tags.
• Kobo driver: Handle Kobo databases that contain corrupted strings that cannot be decoded from UTF-8
• Adding from ISBN: Show a progress dialog for record creation as well as metadata download.
• PDB Input: Fix some TOCs not being detected
• Heuristics: Fix italicize patterns sometime breaking HTML tags.
• When trying to detect the encoding of html, do not use more than the first 50KB so that detection is not too slow
• Fix regression that caused caliber to loose track of whether the content server is running if the content server is started from the preferences
• Smarten punctuation: Handle non breaking spaces used as indents when converting opening quotes
• Catalog generation: Do not abort on author sort mismatches when generating an EPUB catalog
• When editing emtadata by clicking on the book list, remove leading and trailing whitespace
• Fix typo that removed the date format tweaks from the new style tweaks interface
• TXTZ Input: Fix images being lost
• TXT Input: Rename none formatting-type to plain to correspond to the output option.
• Conversion pipeline: Correctly handle align attribute on img tags.
• Fix regression that caused completion in authors/series/tags fields on OS X to return extra text.
• Heuristics processing: Fix bug in italicize regeps that could cuase a scenebreak consisting of multiple underscores to be prefixed by the word None.

New news sources

• Big Hollywood by Darko Miletic
• Detroit News by DTM
• Media Indonesia by bakthariq
• Credit Slips, EPL, Fan Graphs and The Oregonian by zotzo
• Various Romanian news sources by Silviu Cotoara
• Workers World by usrlnx
• Apple Daily by MrLai

Improved news sources

• NRC Handelsblad
• The standard
• Sydney morning Herald
• life hacker

Caliber screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.