Software update: Caliber 0.9.6

Also this weekend a new version of Caliber was released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. 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 feeds to e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The changelog of release 0.9.6 looks like this:

New Features

• Experimental support for subsetting fonts
  Subsetting a font means reducing the font to contain only the glyphs for the text actually present in the book. This can easily be half the size of the font. caliber can now do this for all embedded fonts during a conversion. Turn it on via the ‘Subset all embedded fonts’ option under the Look & Feel section of the conversion dialog. caliber can subset both TrueType and OpenType fonts. Note that this code is very new and likely has bugs, so please check the output if you turn on subsetting. The conversion log will have info about the subsetting operations.
• EPUB Input: Try to workaround EPUBs that have missing or damaged ZIP central directories. caliber should now be able to read/convert such an EPUB file, provided it does not suffer from further corruption.
• Allow using identifiers in save to disk templates.
• calibredb: Add an option to not notify the GUI
• Catalogs: Fix long tags causing catalog generation to fail on windows. Add the ability to cross-reference authors, ie to relist the authors for a book with multiple authors separately.
• Edit metadata dialog: Add a clear tags button to remove all tags with a single click
• Add search to the font family chooser dialog

Bug Fixes

• Windows: Fix a long standing bug in the device eject code that for some reason only manifested in 0.9.5.
• Get Books: Fix Amazon stores, Google Books store and libri.de
• Kobo driver: More fixes for on device book matching, and list books as being on device even if the Kobo has not yet indexed them. Also some performance improvements.
• EPUB Output: Remove duplicate id and name attributes to eliminate pointless noise from the various epub check utilities
• Ask for confirmation before removing plugins
• Fix bulk convert queuing dialog becoming very long if any of the books have a very long title.
• Fix deleting custom column tags like data from the Tag browser not updating the last modified timestamp for affected books
• When updating a previously broken plugin, do not show an error message because the previous version of the plugin cannot be loaded
• Fix regression that broke the Template Editor

New news sources

• Various Polish news sources by Artur Stachecki

Improved news sources

• Various updated Polish recipes
• London Review of Books
• Yemen Times