Download Caliber 0.8.11

Version 0.8.11 of Caliber has been released. This cross platform and open source e-book management program can handle almost all types of e-books and e-readers. Among other things, it makes it possible to convert e-books between the various file formats in order to make them available for all platforms. Furthermore, it can also convert RSS-based news articles to e-book format and there is a viewer with which e-books can be read on the computer. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• When doing a conversion from some format to the same format, save the original file
  When caliber does a conversion from the same format to the same format, for example, from EPUB to EPUB, the original file is saved as original_epub, so that in case the conversion is poor, you can change the settings and run it again. The original is automatically used every time you run a conversion with that format as input. If you want to disable this, there is a tweak that prevents caliber from saving the originals in Preferences->Tweaks. You can easily replace the converted version with the original in the Edit metadata dialog by right clicking on the list of formats in the top right corner.
• Conversion pipeline: Add an option to control the height of the blank lines inserted by caliber
• Drivers for bq DaVinci, Samsung Galaxy ACE GT-S5830 and Medion e-reader
• Get Books: Add stores Chitanka and Bookoteka. Remove epubbuy.de at store’s request
• Content server: Add a link at the bottom of the mobile interface to switch to the full interface.
• Update the kindle icon shown when a Kindle is connected to use a picture of the Kindle 3
• MOBI Output: When converting epub documents that have a start element in their guide, use it to mark the starting position at which the MOBI file will be opened.
• News download: Add a default Accept header to all requests

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression that broke loading translations from .po files in the working directory
• Fix conversion dialog not allowing series numbers larger than 9999
• Conversion pipeline: When adding/removing entries to the manifest, ignore unparseable URLs instead of erroring out on them
• SD Card in Azbooka not being detected
• Conversion pipeline: Strip out large blocks of contiguous space (more than 10000 contiguous blanks) as these slow down the conversion process and are almost always indicative of an error in the input document.
• ebook-convert: Abort if a keyboard interrupt is raised during parsing
• Regex builder: Show a nicer error message when the user has the file open in another program on windows.
• When converting in the GUI, set all identifiers present in the book’s metadata in the output file, if the output format supports them.

New news sources

• Utrinski Vesnik by Darko Spasovsky
• IDG.se by zapt0
• Los Andes by Darko Miletic
• De Luns a Venres by Susana Sotelo Docío
• Nikkei News subscription version by Ado Nishimura

Improved news sources

• NBObline
• JBPress
• Instapaper
• Die Zeit
• Wired (UK)

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