Software update: Caliber 2.57.1

Version 2.57 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 e-books to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Driver for the Bq Cervantes 3
• A new “Ornamental” cover design for the “Generate cover” feature
• Windows: Use a helper process that does not load any caliber DLLs to display file open/save dialogs. This should fix most crashes caused by poorly designed windows shell extensions.
• Allow pressing Alt+O as a shortcut for click the OK button in the Add from ISBN dialog. Close tickets: 1578692
• Remove the caliber dependency on ImageMagick — reduces caliber install size by ~ 15MB
• Edit book: Add a new image filter: Normalize — to improve the contrast in images
• Edit book: Add a filter to make images look like oil paintings
• Use ‘Not rated’ for zero stars in all rating spin boxes

Bug Fixes

• Edit Book: Fix a crash in the Insert Link tool if one of the HTML files contains an empty id. Close tickets: 1580928
• Fix tag like custom columns not sorted when displayed in the Book Details panel. Close tickets: 1578688
• Fix transient window shown during Edit Book startup.
• Preserve booklist horizontal scroll position when merging books. Close tickets: 1579637
• Google Images metadata download plugin: Fix error when searching for books with non-English characters in the title or author names. Close tickets: 1577036
• Template language: Fix an error formatting dates when the underlying date does not have a day. Close tickets: 1576742
• Preferences->Keyboard: Fix unable to use Alt+A and Alt+S as custom shortcuts. Close tickets: 1576721
• Version 2.57.1 ​​is a hotfix to fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files in 2.57.0

Improved news sources

• Folha de Sao Paolo
• Barrons
• Economist
• Deutsche Welle (English and Spanish editions)
• Die Presse
• MIT Technology Review
• Financial Times UK
• Telegraph UK
• The Guardian
• Mirror online
• Fire Eins
• focus.de
• The Toronto Star
• The Atlantic
• capital.de
• The Times of India
• The Economic Times India