Software update: Caliber 0.8.40

Every Friday a new version of Caliber is released and today there is no deviation from it. 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 0.8.40 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Amazon metadata download: Support the new ‘Book Description’ section that Amazon publishes for some books. Also workaround the amazon US servers occasionally returning broken markup leading to caliber not finding any matches for books on Amazon.
• Kindle driver: Add an option to allow using page counts stored in a custom column. Go to Preferences->Plugins and customize the Kindle driver, to tell it to use a custom column to get page count data.
• Template language: Add a current_library_name() function that can be used to return the name of the currently opened library in caliber
• Driver for Xperia Neo and PocketBook A10

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not properly refresh format information in standalone caliber-server processes
• Fix regression in 0.8.39 that broke getting covers from some epub files on OS X.
• Reading metadata from HTML files: Do not take a very long time for very large HTML files. Also fix reading metadata from meta tags with multiple spaces before the content attribute.
• EPUB Output: Fix splitting breaking internal links in the epub, if the links pointed to files with URL unsafe characters in their file names.
• Fix auto adding not leaving languages ​​field blank when book has no defined laguage

New news sources

• Asian Review of Books by Darko Miletic
• Albert Mohler, Desiring God, Living Stones and Resurgence by Peter Grungi
• Novinite BG by M3 Web
• Catholic Daily Readings by adoucette
• Consortium News and Microwave and RF magazine by kiavash

Improved news sources

• Samanyolu Haber
• courier
• le devoir
• Daily Mirror
• Common Dreams
• pescanik

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