Version 0.8.5 of the open source e-book management program Caliber has been released. Caliber can handle almost all types of e-books and e-readers and makes it possible, among other things, to convert e-books between the various formats in order to make them available for all platforms. In addition, it can also convert news articles based on RSS to e-book format and in this way make news available on e-readers. The most important change is that Caliber can now also be used without being installed first, in so-called portable mode. Of course, more has changed:
New Features
- A new ‘portable’ caliber build, useful if you like to carry around caliber and its library on a USB key. For details, see here.
- E-book viewer: Remember the last used font size multiplier.
- Preliminary support for the Kobo Touch. Drivers for the ZTE v9 tablet, Samsung S2, Notion Ink Adam and PocketBook 360+
- When downloading metadata merge rather than replace tags
- Edit metadata dialog: When pasting in an ISBN, if not valid ISBN if present on the clipboard popup a box for the user to enter the ISBN
- Windows build: Add code to load .pyd python extensions from a zip file. This allows many more files in the caliber installation to be zipped up, speeding up the installer.
- Add an action to remove all formats from the selected books to the remove books button
Bug Fixes
- Various minor bug fixes to the column coloring code
- Fix the not() template function
- Nook Color/TSR: When sending books to the storage card place them in the My Files/Books subdirectory. Also do not upload cover thumbnails as users report that the NC/TSR don’t use them.
- Get Books: Update plugins for Amazon and B&N stores to handle website changes. Enable some stores by default on first run. Add Zixo store
- Comic Input: Replace the # character in filenames as it can cause problem with conversion/vieweing.
- When writing files to zipfile, reset timestamp if it doesn’t fit in 1980’s vintage storage structures
- Amazon metadata plugin: Fix parsing of published date from amazon.de when it has februar in it
New news sources
- Ambito Financiero by Darko Miletic
- Stiin Bag Technica by Silviu Cotoara
- Metro News NL by DrMerry
- Brigitte.de, Polizeipresse DE and Heise Online by schuster
Improved news sources
- Ambitious
- GoComics
- Le Monde Diplomatic
- Max Planck
- express.de
Caliber screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.
| Version number | 0.8.5 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista |
| Website | Caliber Team |
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| File sizes |
39.80MB – 62.10MB |
| License type | GPL |