Download Caliber 0.8.17

A new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is a cross-platform and open source e-book management program that can handle a wide range 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. In version 0.8.17 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Basic support for Amazon AZW4 format (PDF wrapped inside a MOBI)
• When showing the cover browser in a separate window, allow the use of the V, D shortcut keys to view the current book and send it to device respectively.
• Add an option in Preferences->Miscellaneous to abort conversion jobs that take too long.
• Driver for HTC Evo and HP TouchPad (with kindle app)
• Preferences->Adding books, detect when the user specifies a test expression with no file extension and popup a warning

Bug Fixes

• E-book viewer: Ensure toolbars are always visible
• Content server: Fix grouping of Tags/authors not working for some non english languages ​​with Internet Explorer
• When downloading metadata from amazon, fix italics inside brackets getting lost.
• Get Books: Add EscapeMagazine.pl and RW2010.pl stores
• Conversion pipeline: Fix conversion of cm/mm to pts. Fixes use of cm as a length unit when converting to MOBI.
• When showing the cover browser in a separate window, focus the cover browser so that keyboard shortcuts work immediately.
• HTMLZ Output: Fix special chars like ampersands, etc. not being converted to entities
• Keyboard shortcuts config: Fix clicking done in the shortcut editor with shortcuts set to default caused the displayed shortcut to be always set to None
• Fix bottom most entries in keyboard shortcuts not editable

New news sources

• Haber 7 and Hira by Unknown
• NTV and NTVspor by A Erdogan by A Erdogan

Improved news sources

• Hacker News
• Nikkei News

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