Software update: Caliber 0.8.56

A new version of Caliber is released almost every Friday and today there is no deviating 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 0.8.56 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Make the new caliber style default on Windows and OS X.
  This change gives a more ‘modern’ feel to the caliber user interface with focus highlighting, gradients, rounded corners, etc. In case you prefer the old look, you can restore under Preferences->Look & Feel->User interface style
• Get Books: Add the new SONY Reader store
• Read metadata from .docx (Microsoft Word) files
• Allow customizing the behavior of the searching for similar books by right clicking the book. You can now tell caliber to search different columns than the traditional author/series/publisher/tags/etc. in Preferences->Searching
• Add option to restore alternating row colors to the Tag Browser under Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser
• Update to Qt 4.8.2 on windows compiled with link time code generation for a small performance boost

Bug Fixes

• Get Books: Update plugins to handle website changes at ebooks.com, project gutenberg, and virtualo
• AZW3 Output: Fix TOC at start option not working
• AZW3 Output: Close self closing script/style/title/head tags explicitly as they cause problems in webkit based renderers like the Kindle Fire and caliber’s viewers.
• Fix the current_library_name() template function not updating after a library switch
• AZW3 Output: Handle the case of a link pointing to the last line of text in the document.
• Fix regression in 0.8.55 that broke highlighting of items matching a search in the Tag Browser
• News download: Handle query only relative URLs

New news sources

• NZZ Webpaper by Bernd Leinfelder

Improved news sources

• Christian Science Monitor
• Neue Zurcher Zeitung
• Birmignham Post
• UK subway
• New Musical Express
• The Independent
• The Daily Mirror
• Vreme
• Smithsonian Magazine

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