Software update: Caliber 2.82

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Version 2.82 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

  • Edit Book: Saved Searches: Add keyboard shortcut (Alt+Up/Down Arrow) to move selected searches.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a typo in the previous release that caused dynamically updated metadata source plugins to stop working. Close tickets: 1673884
  • Catalog generation: Ignore tags with commas in them when generating genres.
  • News download: Do not use Microsoft user agents as more and more websites are serving JPEG XR images to these browsers.
  • Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious results when searching for books that are not present on amazon using a search engine.
  • Get Books: Fix free samples being detected as independent books when searching OPDS based stores such as Feedbooks. Close tickets: 1672500
  • Edit Book: Saved Searches: Preserve selection when using arrows to move multiple items.
  • Fix template formatter functions not being reloaded after a check library operation.
  • Fix an error during shutdown caused by some library closed plugins.

New news sources

  • The Morning Paper by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

  • The Economist
  • Telegraph UK

Version number 2.82
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 10
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License type GPL
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