Software update: Caliber 0.8.21

It’s Friday, so there’s a new version of Caliber to pick up. This open source and cross platform e-book management program can, among other things, convert e-books between various file formats to make them available for various types of e-readers. 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 0.8.21 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• a Tips and Tricks blog to introduce less well known caliber features in a simple way
• News download: Add list of articles in the downloaded issue to the comments metadata of the generated ebook. Makes it possible to search for a particular article in the caliber library.
• Toolbar buttons: You can now also right click the buttons to bring the popup of extra actions, in addition to clicking the small arrow next to the button.
• Amazon metadata download plugin: Add option to download metadata from amazon.es
• Driver for Vizio and iRobot A9 Android Tablets
• When switching to/starting with a library with a corrupted database, offer the user the option of rebuilding the database instead of erroring out.
• Template language: Add list_equals function
• Add a special output profile for the PocketBook 900 as it does not resize images correctly by itself

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression that cause PDF Output to generate very large files
• Fix Title Sort field not being displayed in Book details panel
• Prevent renaming of languages ​​in the Tag browser
• Get books: Fix getting price from Foyles
• Content server: When a search matches no queries, do not show an error message
• ODT Input: Add workaround for ADE to fix centering of block level images when converting to EPUB
• Content server: When WSGI embedding fix handling of empty URL
• RTF Input: Fix spurious spaces inserted after some unicode characters
• Fix regression that broke clicking on the first letter of author names in the Tag Browser when grouped
• Fix reading metadata from filenames when the author regexp does not match anything
• Fix incorrect display of the month September in Finnish caliber
• do not delete the file when the user tries to add a format to a book from a file already in the books directory
• Fix regression that broke customization of Kobo device plugin
• Allow user defined templates to be used in save to disk

New news sources

• Various Colombian news sources by BIGO-CAVA
• Gosc Niedzielny by Piotr Kontek
• Leipzer Volkszeitung by a.peter
• Folha de Sao Paulo (full edition) by fluzao
• Den of Geek by Jaded
• Republica by Manish Bhattarai
• Sign on San Diego by Jay Kindle

Improved news sources

• Read It Later
• American Spectator
• Sydney Morning Herald
• Chicago Tribune
• American Prospect
• DNA India
• Times of India
• courier
• xkcd
• cnet

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