Software update: Caliber 1.0

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Version 1.0 of Caliber has been released. 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. Since version 0.9, among other things, the database has been optimized, the library can be divided into smaller virtual collections and various improvements have been made in importing, converting, cleaning and exporting books.

New Features

  • A new ‘cover grid’ view of the books in your caliber library
    Excellent for judging your books by their covers 🙂 To use click the button with the icon of a grid in the bottom right corner of the main window. It can be configured via Preferences -> Look & Feel -> Cover Grid
  • A new, faster database backend
    The database backend in caliber has been rewritten from scratch. The new code is smaller, more robust and much faster than the old code. The exact speedup will depend on the number of books and number and type of custom columns in your library. Users have reported caliber startup times decreasing by a factor of 2-3 times.
  • For a summary of the major changes in caliber between 0.9 and 1.0, see http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/ten
  • RTF Input: Add option to ignore WMF images iinstead of replacing them with a placeholder.Closes tickets: 1213599
  • Content server: Make virtual libraries available as searches from the start page. They work just like saved searches, clicking on a virtual library will show you all the books in that virtual library.

Bug Fixes

  • Remove extra, useless ‘language’ entry in metadata download configuration dialog
  • Kobo driver: Display device collections even if the driver is configured to not manage shelves on the device.Closes tickets: 1214233
  • Fix typo in caliber.desktop file on linux.Closes tickets: 1213664
  • Edit metadata dialog: Disable OK button while results are being downloaded.Closes tickets: 1213397
  • In OS X 10.8 Apple stopped redirecting stdout/stderr to Console.app for applications launched by launch services. Re-enable the redirection, useful for debugging.
  • Fix virtual library tabs not being updated when using VL button

New news sources

  • News24 and Nuus24 by Nicki de Wet

Improved news sources

  • consumerist
  • jeux video
  • UK subway
  • El Tribuno
  • High Country News
  • Daily Express
  • Providence Journal
  • media part

Version number 1.0
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows 8
Website Caliber Team
Download http://calibre-ebook.com/download
File sizes

49.86MB – 80.20MB

License type GPL
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