Software update: Caliber 3.17

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. Since version 3.15, the following improvements have been made:

Release: 3.17

New features

• Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the column headers and choosing ‘Split the book list’.
  This is useful to ‘lock’ one or more columns in place so that they are always visible even when scrolling through other columns. Also, the split list has a separate right click menu which you can configure via Preferences->Toolbars and menus.
• Store temporary files used by the editor and viewer in the cache directory to try to prevent errors caused by ‘file cleaner’ programs deleting temporary files still in use.

Bug fixes

• EPUB3 Input: Fix HTML covers and titlepages that are marked using the deprecated element not being recognized. Close tickets: 1746794.
• Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression in 3.13 that made it impossible to use the Force numbering checkbox for custom series.
• Conversion: Fix the valign attribute on tags not being honored.
• E-book viewer: Fix the ‘Copy’ keyboard shortcut/context menu action not working on some Windows systems. Close tickets: 1477696.
• E-book viewer: Make the semi-transparent background for viewing metadata a little more opaque. Close tickets: 1745812.

New news sources

• Computing by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• New York Times
• Le Devoir
• New Statesman
• London Review of Books
• New York Post
• LWN Weekly
• Associated Press

Release: 3.16

New features

• Content server: Allow adding and deleting of books using the web interface.
  Use the + icon in the top bar of the book list to add new books and the trash icon in the top bar of the book details page to a delete a book. Note that only authenticated users are allowed to perform these actions, so you have to setup user accounts for the server to use these features.
• Allow removing the close button from tabs in the Virtual library tab bar. Right click the tab bar and choose ‘Lock tabs’ to do that.
• calibredb export: Add –progress option.
• Bulk metadata editing: Show progress bars to track progress of the operation.
• Content server: When downloading books from the server send both the ASCII and full Unicode file names. Browsers that support RFC 6266 can make use of the unicode file name.
• Content server: Show a warning popup on Apple devices when the user tries to search with an expression containing smart quotes, since Apple devices now automatically replace quotes with smart quotes when typing.

Bug fixes

• DOCX Output: Fix links without anchors in the input document not being converted correctly. Close tickets: 1741098.
• calibredb: Fix a regression that broke reading of passwords from stdin.
• Edit book: Fix an error when saving files with filenames that cannot be encoded using the system codepage on Windows.
• Pasting metadata: Fix excluding title and authors not working.

New news sources

• Revista Veintitres by Darko Miletic
• Cronica by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• The Galaxy’s Edge
• Orange County Register
• danas