Software update: Caliber 3.40.1

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 3.40, the following improvements have been made:

New features

• TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation.
• Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the book by right clicking on the existing Ids. Close tickets: 1815005.
• Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the ‘Search the internet’ feature via Preferences->Sharing over the net->Search the internet. Close tickets: 1810923.
• Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library.
• Allow adding files to selected book records from the clipboard. To use copy a file from windows explorer, right click the Add books button and choose: Add files to selected books from clipboard. Close tickets: 1815419.
• Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu option to search using the raw search expression. Close tickets: 1816274.
• Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next match. Close tickets: 1816276.
• Windows: Add a button to Preferences->Sharing over the net to set caliber to run when the computer starts.

Bug fixes

• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to library and delete after when copying a duplicated book. Close tickets: 1816224.
• Edit book: Fix pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) not working
• Content server: Fix {id} not working in the custom list template. Close tickets: 1818308.
• EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not saving title and format information. Close tickets: 1818838.
• macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor blink time.
• FB2 Output: Fix comments from the input document not present in the output. Close tickets: 1815357.
• calibredb: Fix adding books with an OPF file to a remote server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file.
• TXT Input: Fix option to remove indents at the start of lines breaking conversion of markdown documents. Close tickets: 1814989.
• EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in exclusion rules. Close tickets: 1814458.
• EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix multiple books with the same title but different authors in a genre not being listed. Close tickets: 1415990.
• Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page.
• Version 3.40.1 fixes a bug in 3.40 that could prevent caliber starting when using a custom date column.

New news sources

• Quanta Magazine by lui1
• El Periodico Mediterraneo by benages

Improved news sources

• Scientific American
• Taipei Times
• Harpers Magazine
• General Knowledge Today
• Granma
• South China Morning Post
• New York Times (Web)
• China Daily
• 1843
• Pro Physik
• Caravan Magazine
• Spectrum of Knowledge