Download Caliber 0.8.7

Version 0.8.7 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 changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

New Features

• Connect to iTunes: You now need to tell iTunes to keep its own copy of every ebook. Do this in iTunes by going to Preferences->Advanced and setting the ‘Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library’ option. To learn about why this is necessary, see:
• Add a couple of date related functions to the caliber template langauge to get ‘todays’ date and create text based on the value of a date type field
• Improved reading of metadata from FB2 files, with support for reading isbns, tags, published date, etc.
• Driver for the Imagine IMEB5
• Show the currently used network proxies in Preferences->Miscellaneous
• Kobo Touch driver: Show Favorites as a device collection. Various other minor fixes.
• Content server now sends the Content-Disposition header when sending ebook files.
• Allow search and replace on comments custom columns.
• Add a new action ‘Quick View’ to show the books in your library by the author/tags/series/etc. of the currently selected book, in a separate window. You can add it to your toolbar or right click menu by going to Preferences->Toolbars.
• Get Books: Add libri.de as a book source. Fix a bug that caused some books downloads to fail. Fixes to the Legimi and beam-ebooks.de stores

Bug Fixes

• Fix a memory leak that could result in the leaking of several MB of memory with large libraries
• Fix the read metadata from format button in the edit metadata dialog using the wrong timezone when setting published date
• Generating catalog: Fix occasional file in use errors when generating catalogs on windows
• Fix clicking on News in Tag Browser not working in non English locales.
• HTML Input: Fix a regression in 0.8.6 that caused CSS stylesheets to be ignored
• Fix a regression that caused restore database to stop working on some windows sytems
• EPUB Output: Convert
  tags with text in them into as ADE cannot handle them.

New news sources

• Daytona Beach Journal by BRGriff
• El club del ebook and Frontline by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• Le Temps
• perfil
• Financial Times UK

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