Download Caliber 0.8.30

A new version of Caliber is released every Friday and today is no exception. Caliber is an open source and cross platform e-book management tool. Among other things, it can copy e-books to and from readers and convert them to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS to e-book format and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. In version 0.8.30 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Get Books: Add amazon.es and amazon.it
• Bulk convert dialog: Disable the Use saved conversion settings checkbox when none of the books being converted has saved conversion settings
• ebook-viewer: And a command line switch to specify the position at which the file should be opened.
• Distribute caliber source code compressed with xz instead of gzip for a 40% reduction in size

Bug Fixes

• Get Books: Fix ebooks.com and amazon.fr. Fix cover display in Diesel ebooks store.
• HTML Input: Fix regression that broke processing of a small fraction of HTML files encoded in a multi-byte character encoding.
• Greatly reduce the delay at the end of a bulk metadata edit operation that operates on a very large number (thousands) of books
• Template language: Fix the subitems formatter function to split only when the period is surrounded by non-white space and not another period
• Fix ampersands in titles not displaying in the Cover Browser
• MOBI Output: Do not ignore an empty anchor at the end of a block element.
• MOBI Output: Handle links to inline anchors placed inside large blocks of text correctly, ie the link should not point to the start of the block.
• E-book viewer: Fix searching for text that is represented as entities in the underlying HTML.
• Have the Esc shortcut perform exactly the same set of actions as clicking the clear button.
• Prevent the adding books dialog from becoming too wide
• Fix custom column editing not behaving correctly with the Previous button in the edit metadata dialog.
• T1 driver. More fixes to datetime handling to try to convince the T1’s buggy firmware to not rescan metadata.
• Only allow searching via non accented author names if the user interface language in caliber is set to English.

New news sources

• Blues News by Oskar Kunickic
• TVXS by Hargikas

Improved news sources

• Die Zeit subscription
• UK subway
• suedeutsche.de

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