Software update: Caliber 3.14

An update for version 3.0 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source e-book management tool available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. 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. In version 3.14, the following improvements have been made:

New features

• User manual: A new quick reference primer for regular expression syntax
• Content server: Allow viewing the book metadata while reading a book. In the viewer controls, tap Goto and then Metadata to see the metadata.Closes tickets: 1736312.
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
• Bulk metadata edit: Allow choosing the algorithm used for changing the case of titles
• Get books: The koobe.pl store plugin has now become the Swiat Ebookow store plugin
• Allow Copy/paste of book metadata from the main book list. Right click the Edit metadata button to access these actions.
• Allow disabling the confirmation popup when opening the containing folder of many books at once.Closes tickets: 1735862.

Bug fixes

• Nook driver: Fix books sent via caliber not appearing under My Files on the Glowlight 3 Plus
• Get Books: Update Mills & Boon, publio, empik, legimi, woblink and beam-ebooks.de plugins for website changes
• Book polishing: Do not scan book for font usage when subsetting if no embedded fonts are available.Closes tickets: 1737400.
• Content server: Open links in the comments section from the book details page in new windows.Closes tickets: 1737644.
• Choose English as the User interface language when a locale related environment variable is set to the C locale
• Linux installer: A nicer error message if the user tries to run the installer on an ARM machine

New news sources

• El Cohete a la luna by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• Boston Globe
• The Times
• Economist