Normally a new version of Caliber comes out every Friday at the end of the day. However, last week was an exception and today they are early. This open source and cross-platform e-book management tool 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 0.8.22 the following changes and improvements have been made:
New Features
- Input plugin for OCR-ed DJVU files (ie .djvu files that contain text. Only the text is converted)
- Driver for the SONY PRS T1
- Add a ‘Back’ button to the metadata download dialog while downloading covers, so that you can go back and select a different match if you dont lke the covers, instead of having to re-do the entire download.
- Add an option in Preferences->Saving to disk to not show files in file browser after saving to disk
- Get Books: Add the amazon.fr store. Remove leading ‘by’ from author names. Fix encoding issues with non English titles/names
- Driver for Onyx BOOX A61S/X61S
- Kobo: Add support for uploading new covers to the device without converting the ePub. You can just resend the book to have the cover updated
- Make it a little harder to ignore the fact that there are multiple toolbars when customizing toolbars
Bug Fixes
- MOBI Input: Remove invalid tags from the form
- calibredb add_format does not refresh running caliber instance
- Conversion pipeline: Translate to CSS font-family
- When sending email add a Date: header so that amavis does not consider the emails to be spam
- Fix for the problem where setting the restriction to an empty current search clears the restriction box but does not clear the restriction.
- Fix generation of column coloring rules for date/time columns
- Fix plugboard problem where customizations to formats accepted by a device were ignored.
- Enable adding of various actions to the toolbar when device is connected (they had been erroneously marked as being non-addable)
- Fixable content in library check is not hidden after repair
- Catalog generation: Handle a corrupted thumbnail cache.
- Do not error out when user clicks stop selected job with no job selected.
New news sources
- WoW Insider by Krittika Goyal
- Merco Press and Penguin news by Russell Phillips
- Defense News by Darko Miletic
- Revista Piaui by Eduardo Simoes
- Dark Horizons by Jaded
- Various polish news sources by fenuks
Improved news sources
- automation guide
- CNET
- Geek and Poke
- Gosc Niedzielny
- Dilbert
- Economist
- Ming Pao
- UK subway
- Heise Online
- FAZ.net
- Houston Chronicle
- slate
- Descopera
Caliber screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.
| Version number | 0.8.22 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista |
| Website | Caliber Team |
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| File sizes |
42.40MB – 63.82MB |
| License type | GPL |