Software Update: Caliber 3.26.1

A new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source e-book management program and is 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 3.26, the following improvements have been made:

New features

• Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records. Close tickets: 1775123.
• Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window.
• Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files.
• Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files. Close tickets: 1774945.
• E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title. Close tickets: 1776710.
• Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold. Close tickets: 1775888.

Bug fixes

• PDF Input: Fix a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of PDF to be significantly worse. Close tickets: 1775984.
• E-book viewer: Fix very slow loading for HTML files with very many images on Linux. Close tickets: 1774884.
• Content server: Fix a regression in 3.14 that removed the separator between books in the detailed list view mode. Close tickets: 1776294.
• Edit book: Fix SVG files not being authenticated by the Beautify all files tool.
• Edit book: Fix searching in selected files not searching SVG files.
• Fix Tweaks help string not being displayed translated.
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix distorted rendering of some labels in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances. Close tickets: 1766762.
• Version 3.26.1 prevents dropping of a book onto itself from triggering the merge dialog, which should reduce accidental triggers. Close tickets: 1777054.

New news sources

• El Cronista by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• slate
• New York Times Book Review
• The Independent UK
• NY Times Tech Beat
• New York Times
• cracked.com