Software update: Caliber 0.9.40

Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images and convert ebooks to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. A new version is released every Friday and since version 0.9.38 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Release: 0.9.40

New Features

• EPUB Output: Add an option to insert an inline Table of Contents into the main text. Close tickets: 1201006
• Driver for LG Android phone. Close tickets: 1202013
• When matching books in the library against the device manually, pre-fill the search field with the book title. Close tickets: 1200826

Bug Fixes

• PDF Input: Fix a regression that caused some images to be flipped when converting PDF files that use image rotation operators. Close tickets: 1201083
• Fix regression that caused incorrect font size in dropcaps generated by the DOCX input plugin
• Get Books: Fix searching for title and author returning some extra matches, if the title starts with an article like the, a or an. Close tickets: 1200012
• PDF Output: Fix extra blank page being inserted at the start of the chapter when converting some epub files from feedbooks
• PDF Output: Workaround bug in WebKit’s getBoundingClientRect() method that could cause links to occasionally point to incorrect locations. Close tickets: 1202390
• E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause the reported position to be incorrect immediately after opening a previously opened book. This also fixes the Back button not working if a link is clicked on the page immediately after opening the book.
• Fix memory card not being detected for Elonex 621 on Windows
• Fix regression in last release that broke auto-conversion of ebooks when sending to device/sending by email. Close tickets: 1200864
• Get Books: Update amazon plugins for website changes
• Allow using non-ascii chars in email passwords. Close tickets: 1202825

New news sources

• Il Foglio by faber1971
• Le Monde Diplomatique and Acrimed by Gaetan Lehmann

Improved news sources

• Galaxy’s Edge

Release: 0.9.39

New Features

• Bulk metadata edit: Add a checkbox to prevent the refreshing of the book list after the bulk edit. This means that the book list will not be resorted and any existing search/virtual library will not be refreshed. Useful if you have a large library as the refresh can be slow.
• Allow manually marking a book in the caliber library as being on the device. To do so click the device icon in caliber, then right click on the book you want marked and choose ‘Match book to library’. Once you are done marking all the books, right click the device icon and choose ‘Update cached metadata’
• Driver for Coby Kyros MID1126. Close tickets: 1199410
• When adding formats to an existing book, by right clicking the add books button, ask for confirmation if some formats will be overwritten.
• Add a tweak to restrict the list of output formats available in the conversion dialog. Go to Preferences->Tweaks to change it.

Bug Fixes

• Amazon metadata download: Update plugin to deal with the new amazon.com website
• Edelweiss metadata download plugin: Workaround for advanced search being broken at the Edelweiss website.
• Invalid data in the device database on sony readers could cause errors when sorting device collections, ignore those errors.
• DOCX Input: Fix no page break being inserted before the last section. Close tickets: 1198414
• Metadata download dialog: Have the OK button enabled in the results screen as well. Close tickets: 1198288
• Get Books: Update empik store plugin

New news sources

• Glenn Brenwald and Ludwig von Mises Institute by anywho

Improved news sources

• Houston Chronicle
• cracked.com
• mediapart.fr