Software update: Caliber 3.37

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 3.37, the following improvements have been made:

Bug fixes

• calibredb: Fix adding books from directories to a remote server running on Windows not working.
• Edit Book: Fix style attribute on tags not being preserved when editing AZW3 files. Close tickets: 1810193
• Get Books: Use an external browser for Google Books. Close tickets: 1810205
• Saving to disk: Fix errors on Linux/macOS if the title/authors are long enough to make individual path components larger than 255 characters. Close tickets: 1807525
• PDF Input: Fix non-breaking spaces represented as entities in the output of pdftohtml, which breaks some search/replace expressions.
• Edit book: Fix a crash when mousing over links in an instance of the editor launched standalone on macOS Mojave. Close tickets: 1805521
• Conversion: When converting with font size rescaling disabled, convert font size names to rem unit rather than pt units. Close tickets: 1809671
• Windows: When registering caliber programs as possible handlers for various file types, dont set the AllowSilentDefaultTakeOver registry key.
• macOS: PDF Output: Fix bold fonts not working on Mojave. Close tickets: 1799750
• Content server: Fix strings with double quotes not being translated.

Improved news sources

• Il Post